Capital Budgeting

This is a course in establishing a capital budgeting process from conducting due diligence through to communicating and facilitating discussions of capital investment opportunities with decision makers. Capital budgeting is a key strategic process that ensures capital is deployed to only those opportunities that have a high probability of meeting or exceeding the expectations for return. It is also a process that ensures that scarce capital resources are deployed to the highest yield opportunities across the organization.

In this course, we will walk through how to develop assumptions, prepare the capital budgeting analysis, and quantify risk using tornado charts and monte-carlo simulation analysis. We will also discuss the financing implications of capital investment opportunities by looking at lease versus buy analysis, a related but often confused part of capital budgeting.

Why you should Attend

Long term decision making is often under evaluated resulting in destruction of value from short-sighted decision making.

Areas Covered in the Session

Assemble assumptions that consider uncertainty and probability
Prepare a capital budget using appropriate cash flow and discounting methodology
Learn approaches to exploring and presenting risk associated with investment opportunities

Who Will Benefit

Financial Analysts
FP&A
Director of Finance
Controllers
CFO

Speaker Profile

Blair Cook is a seven-time CFO, a director, and an educator at Executive Finance Partners - a professional development and executive coaching firm for financial professionals and executives. He also serves as a corporate director and audit committee chair of publicly listed companies. Blair is the author of The Illiterate Executive: An Executive’s Handbook for Mastering Financial Acumen.