On-Demand Financial Trainings

Learn at your own pace with interactive online modules – including quizzes and knowledge checks to evaluate your progress. Choose which courses best suit your learning objectives or take them all sequentially.

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Developed specifically for IR and corporate communications by FinanceTalking, NIRI’s financial training courses are designed to help you understand the specific financial concepts you need to communicate your company’s financial story effectively. Courses are available on a variety of topics and learning levels.

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Financial Training: Essentials Courses

Cost per course: $220 members/$240 nonmembers

Introduction to Companies, Funding & the Capital Markets – Enroll

Covers the basics of financial markets and instruments, how the capital markets work and the role of key participants, how companies access the capital markets and what it means to be a listed company.

The Basics of Business Finance – Enroll

Designed to give you a good understanding of the basics of business finance. Learn how businesses are funded and what the money’s used for, how they make profits and generate cash, how to measure business performance and where to find the information you’ll need. See how income statements and balance sheets work and you’ll also understand key financial jargon, concepts and commonly used financial metrics.

Understanding Shareholder Value – Enroll

Provides a good understanding of shareholder value, including what it means from a shareholder’s point of view; what it means from a company’s point of view; the levers a company can pull to create more value; making the link with strategic actions that drive value creation and communicating shareholder value.

Budgeting & Forecasting – Enroll

Learn all about budgeting and forecasting. Understand how to go about preparing a budget including what information you’ll need to ask for before you start and how to review your numbers for reasonableness. See how to use typical monthly reports and learn how to input to the forecasting process.

Investment Appraisal – Enroll

Understand investment appraisal from first principles. This covers payback period, ROI, NPV, IRR and making the business case. Learn how to think about the inputs to your spreadsheet and how to challenge the assumptions to ensure that you’re making the best possible decisions.

Financial Training: Short Courses

Cost per course: $95 members/$110 nonmembers

Initial Public Offering – Enroll

Understand initial public offers (IPOs), the implications, the process, how the shares are priced and the role of advisers.

Adjusted Profits – Enroll

Provides a good understanding of what companies mean by “adjusted” or “underlying” profits and the advantages and pitfalls of using these numbers.

Understanding Cash Flows – Enroll

Examines the difference between profits and cash flows, cash flow statements, and the impact of working capital management on cash generation.

Leverage and How Much is Too Much – Enroll

This course looks at leverage (gearing). Discover what makes a company suitable for high leverage, how to measure it and consider how much is too much, using real examples.

Understanding DCF Valuation – Enroll

Learn how companies are valued using discounted cash flow techniques. Look at the principles, the math, and a real company example.

Understanding Valuation Using Multiples – Enroll

Learn how companies are valued using multiples. Review P/E ratios, P/B, dividend yield and ratios using enterprise value.

Evaluating M&A from a Financial Point of View – Enroll

Examine how deals are evaluated from a financial point of view.

How To Analyze a Company – Enroll

Learn how to analyze a company in just 20 minutes with a series of six steps that will give you a quick and easy view of how a company’s doing.

The Macro-Economic Backdrop – Enroll

Understand the major factors affecting the global economy – growth, inflation, interest rates, currencies and more. Review how they all fit together and consider the likely implications for companies.