Analysing the financial performance of customers or suppliers

Analysing the financial performance of customers or suppliers
It's natural for businesses to be interested in the financial strength of key customers and suppliers. Yet although credit assessors can provide a straightforward, credit-based view, they frequently lack the expertise to carry out more focused analyses.

So we support operational executives as they gain the insights and frameworks to examine companies' performance and financial standing. We make financial skills less the preserve of a select few, and more a foundation on which many can build.

Depending on particular client needs, course content explores:

• How a business works to generate cash and profits
• Finding the headline numbers
• Focusing on operational performance
• Restating the published numbers
• Understanding the advantages and costs of working capital
• Identifying long-term solvency
• Monitoring dynamic performance
• Making sense of the analysis
• Taking the analysis further.