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Smart Budgeting & Corporate Governance Workshop

North Coast Beach Hotel, Mombasa

16th- 17th April 2012.

Who Should Attend

CEOs, Finance Managers and Accounts staff, Company secretarial staff, lawyers, accountants and other company advisors, internal auditors, compliance officers and risk managers, those new to investor relations, company secretaries, company directors.

What you will learn
a. Smart Budgeting
Does your staff know how their management decisions translate into Shillings and cents?

Whether your staff is comprised of new managers with concerns about budget planning and talking to the finance people…experienced managers who want to get a lot more out of the yearly chore.. .or experienced financial professionals who want to refresh and update their budgeting skills, this brisk, two-day seminar will make their budget responsibilities an opportunity to get successful reviews and approvals
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Your Staff Will Discover How To:

• Develop a revenue budget
• Use budget planning to translate managerial decisions into Shillings
• Set monthly targets and prepare for contingencies
• Get successful reviews and approvals
Topics Covered:
• Keys to the budgeting process: integrating management’s goals, working with operating budgets, costs and expenses, controlling cash and structuring a capital budget
• How to measure performance: analyzing budget variances… actions to take after analysis
• Case study: calculating sales, material costs, direct labor, overhead costs, cost of sales
• Current best practices in public sector financial management reforms.

b. Corporate Governance
This essential governance course provides delegates with an understanding of key governance debates and principles and offers practical advice on compliance and best practice. It explores the key governance frameworks and regulation, including in-depth coverage of the Corporate Governance rules, board structures, roles and committees, reporting and disclosure, corporate social responsibility and risk.
Your Staff Will Discover How To:
• Understand what corporate governance is actually all about, and have acquired practical advice on how to implement it in your own workplace
• Be able to demonstrate appropriate compliance, and be able to defend yourself against accusations of negligence
Topics Covered:
• Roles and Responsibilities of Directors and Officers, Board Committees
• Risk Management and Internal Audit
• Compliance, Ethics & Sustainability Reporting
• Governance issues per the Public Finance Management Act
• The Prevention & Combating of Corrupt Activities

Who We Are
The Center for Strategy & Management is a center of excellence for Management training. Our trainers have extensive experience in areas of Strategic Management and Corporate Governance gathered over 50 years combined international experience with global firms. Course delivered in partnership with Strategic Leadership Center; DIT Number; DIT/TRN/516.

The Lead trainer is Alex Sapala. Alex is a graduate of Oxford Brookes University in the UK and a member of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and the ACCA. He achieved a Bronze Medal for 3rd place worldwide in his final ACCA exams, becoming the first African in the history of ACCA exams to win a medal. He has worked on a variety of projects with organisations ranging from small enterprises, universities, charities, banks, local government, manufacturing to FTSE 100 companies.

He has worked with Deloitte & Touche consulting for clients like Southbank University, Save the Children, A C O R D, Fossil, HSBC and Morgan Sindall. Since leaving Deloitte Alex has worked within financial markets both in trading finance and operational risk including 3 ½ years in Global Banking and Markets at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group and a top-tier London-based US investment bank, JP Morgan Chase.

He will be assisted by Henry Kimathi, who holds an MBA in Finance and has worked with several large firms in Kenya including Airtell, Equity Bank and Essar Group.
Your Investment USD 600 excl. of taxes. (The fees do not include accommodation). If you wish to stay at North Coast Beach Hotel. Call Catherine at 0718-500370.

Pay by 11th April and get a 10% discount.
Bring 3 and the fourth one Get in free
Note: Attendees will need a calculator for this seminar.