Post Associates - 2-Day Profit and Cash Flow Management Outline

2- DAY PROFIT AND CASH FLOW MANAGEMENT

Workshop for operating managers and team leaders

WORKSHOP OUTLINE

FIRST DAY

How your company measures Operating Profit and Cash Flow, and why they are so vital to business success
The importance of profit and cash flow to your customers, employees, and shareholders
Operating profit and cash flow drivers
Understand your company and business unit financial reports
Analyze your latest financial results to identify successes, problems, and opportunities
Compare your latest results with:
- Prior results
- Competitors’ results
- Your plans, forecasts, and budgets
How your business objectives and strategies tie to profit and cash flow
Ways to increase profit and cash flow through Sales

SECOND DAY

Increasing profit and cash flow by reducing/controlling costs and expenses
- Direct and overhead costs
- Fixed and variable costs
Ways to increase profit and cash flow by managing assets;
- Collect accounts receivables faster
- Reduce inventories
- Increase productivity of fixed assets
- Maximize the value of intangible assets such as intellectual property
Prepare and analyze financial plans and budgets
Use financial decision tools to evaluate opportunities to increase profit and cash flow
- Breakeven analysis
- Sensitivity analysis
- Discounted cash flow analysis
Put the workshop to work increasing profit and cash flow in your business