An Interactive 5-Day Training Course
Managing Financial Crisis & Supporting Decision Making
Protecting Stakeholder Value in Crisis
Course Overview
This GLOMACS Managing Financial Crisis Supporting Decision Making training course will equip you with the vital skills to help ensure the survival of your organisation during any crisis and pandemic that has dramatically disrupted domestic consumer and labour markets and has destabilised establish global trading arrangements and supply chains. This innovative new leading edge seminar will highlight the critical areas where responsive and relevant decision-making support is needed during this extremely challenging crisis to maintain the organisation’s profitability as well as manage and optimise its cash flow and liquidity.
The training course is designed to offer practical support to key decision makers to help them to provide the appropriate response to what may prove to be lasting disruptive changes to the organisation’s fundamental ways of operating, reflected in long established business models. Under these conditions some well-established decision-making techniques are no longer valid and may even prove to be detrimental to the organisation’s ability to survive current crisis and flourish afterwards. The training course will highlight where these threats may leave the organisation exposed and how this may be avoided.
This training course will highlight:
- How to assess the potential impact of the crisis on established business models?
- The vital actions needed to manage cash flow and liquidity in a crisis
- Managing and reducing costs without damaging the heart of the enterprise
- Practical tools to manage capital expenditure during the crisis
- The critical importance of effective leadership and communication
- An effective approach to forecasting to manage risk and uncertainty
Training Outline
DAY 1: Assessing the Potential Impact of the Crisis
- The drivers of business success in normal conditions
- Identifying and balancing stakeholder interests during crisis
- Understanding how effective business models work
- The disruptive impact on business models during crisis
- Identifying opportunities for business model reinvention
- Key aspects of business finance for management attention
- The pressure on conventional financial performance indicators
- Six critical areas for management focus during the crisis
DAY 2: Managing Cash Flow, Funding and Liquidity
- Taking control of your cash flow drivers
- Understanding and optimising working capital
- Identifying bottlenecks in order to cash systems
- Protecting customer and supplier relationships
- Mastering cash flow forecasting and modelling
- Ensuring adequate cash resources
- Reviewing funding options and costs
- Identifying sources of emergency funding
DAY 3: Managing and Reducing Operating Expenses (OpEx)
- Understanding the fundamentals of cost behaviour
- The vital gross margin and break-even relationship
- The critical role of value added analysis in crisis management
- Profit protection and management in a crisis
- Potential weaknesses in traditional cost analysis
- An activity based approach to profit analysis
- Crisis cost reduction the strategic way
DAY 4: Managing and Controlling Capital Expenditure (CapEx)
- Capital allocation techniques in a crisis
- Capital appraisal methods
- The Fundamentals of discounted cash flow analysis
- Using Excel to evaluate CapEx project viability in a crisis
Leadership and Effective Communication
- Crisis leadership
- The vital importance of communication in a crisis
- The Importance of Urgency
- Managing necessary change in a crisis
DAY 5: Managing Risk with Effective Forecasting
- Risk analysis techniques
- Forecasting in conditions of risk and uncertainty
- Basic principles of statistical data analysis
- Using sensitivity analysis techniques to manage risk
- Replacing budgets with dynamic rolling forecasts
- Recognising risk in traditional decision-making techniques
- Removing barriers to business model innovation
Certificates
- On successful completion of this training course, GLOMACS Certificate will be awarded to the delegates
- Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE) : In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsor, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance
Accreditation
GLOMACS is registered with NASBA as a sponsor of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. NASBA have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.learningmarket.org.
All Training Seminars delivered by GLOMACS by default are eligible for CPE Credit.
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About Saudi Glomacs
At Saudi GLOMACS, we specialize in delivering world-class training courses in Saudi Arabia and across various international locations. Our training courses are tailored to meet the unique demands of Saudi Vision 2030 and the Human Capability Development Program, focusing on empowering Saudi citizens and enhancing workforce skills. We offer diverse courses spanning leadership, management, engineering, and technical disciplines to cultivate expertise and drive professional growth. Our flexible learning options—whether in-person, online, or in-house—ensure accessibility and convenience for individuals and organizations alike.
With over 30+ years of experience through the GLOMACS global network, we are committed to delivering innovative, results-driven training solutions. Our expert instructors combine industry knowledge with dynamic teaching methods, fostering practical skill development and long-term career success. By choosing Saudi GLOMACS, you're investing in personal excellence and contributing to the Kingdom’s sustainable economic growth and vision-driven transformation.
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