Apply the theories, models, and practices of finance to the financial management of an organization.
Analyze financing strategies to maximize stakeholder value.
Apply financial analyses to business planning and decision making.
Use data to support evidence-based financial decisions.
Scenario
The senior leadership has approved your recommendations to move forward. You are now tasked with operationalizing your recommendations. Meeting with your staff, you will translate recommendations to strategies and corresponding tactical objectives. You will explain how you used financial analysis to develop these recommendations, discussing the financial tools you will use to monitor implementation progress.
Your Role
You are one of the high-performing financial analyst managers at ABC Healthcare Corporation and are under consideration for a promotion to Director of Operations.
You are presenting to your staff a summary of the reports presented to senior leadership (Assessments 1 and 2).
Start by presenting the overall current financial condition of the company as presented to senior leadership (one to two slides).
Provide an overview of your analysis, linking what tools (financial statements, ratios, industry trends, capital structure) you utilized and why you chose these tools (two slides).
Link the data used to support your evidence-based financial decisions, providing justification for the recommendations (two slides).
State the recommendations focused on maximizing stakeholder value into strategies newly adopted by the company, i.e., expansion to a new geographical market, the development of a new dividend policy, changes in capital expenditures, reduction of workforce (one slide).
Translate those strategies to tactical objectives to be implemented by your staff, noting evidenced-based academic citations (one to two slides).
Discuss what financial tools you will use to monitor the progress of these tactics (one slide).