The guarantee of a high-level technical appraisal, validated by the real situation existing in the field. Valuation, transactions services, prevention and treatment of financial distress, consolidation and reporting, audit, accounting standards and practices, information systems, etc.
We operate exclusively in the day-to-day BMA practices and skills domains. This enables us to transfer both technical and operational skills for the benefit of our clients, whether enterprises, investment funds, merchant banks or government authorities.
The training courses provided have emerged from our acquired audit and consultancy experience, updated to take account of regulatory changes, in particular through our active presence and participation in professional organisations and authorities.
Personalised training courses. From listening to our clients, we are convinced that the relevance of any training action resides in its adaptation to the issue, problem and target public involved.
TRAINING COURSES
Training courses designed to meet specific demand, while adaptable and personalisable as required.
IFRS standards and accounting practices:
- Awareness of IFRS standards: knowledge of the basic principles of the reference system and the fundamental content of the principal standards.
- IFRS practice for investors: reading a balance sheet and income statement under IFRS, interpretation of the leading ratios (EBITDA, ROE, etc.) and measurement of the legal impacts of the IFRSs (covenants, price variation clause, etc.).
- In-depth understanding of a standard or theme: familiarisation with the principles of a standard or theme (e.g. financial instruments, IAS 36 impairment test), to be in a position to apply the standard or theme in question.
- Convergence of IFRSs and GAAP: familiarisation with changes to French standards linked to the IFRSs, and anticipation of legal and taxation accounting impacts.
- Consolidation: proficiency in consolidation techniques and understanding of complex situations.
- Accounting and financial organisation: learning how to control a completion date reduction project in terms of methodology and enhanced professional practices.
Information systems:
- Changes to an accounting management system – architecture, location of management control functions, selection criteria for accounting software: provision of a rigorous, efficient approach making it possible to construct an accounting management system, understanding how to separate an accounting system from a management system, and provision of keys to the flexibility of an accounting management system.
- Rationalisation of accounting management processes: optimisation/rationalisation of the accounting function, understanding of process modelling, implementation of a rationalisation method and operation of a benchmarking system.
- Reorganisation or outsourcing of the accounting function: proficiency in implementing an accounting function restructuring operation, definition of an accounting function transformation approach, understanding of consolidation scope definition rules and criteria and construction of the financial model.
- Design and protection of information networks: acquisition of the basic principles for designing an Intranet and WAN. How to integrate operational requirements? How to avoid bottlenecks and service interruptions? How to organise service limitations?
- Information flow audit: acquisition of an audit approach based on information flows and processes. How to represent high level operational processes? How to obtain a complete application map rapidly? How to identify risks? How to integrate these observations in an audit approach?
- Designing a decision-making system: understanding of the principles and rules for constructing a decision-making system in line with auditing principles. Setting up a decision-making system: what are the dangers? What choice of architecture? What data marts? How to inform the system? How to create an audit path? How to organise reject control? What tools to use?
- Evolution of a reporting system: : transformation of a reporting system: how to define performance indicators from strategic objectives? How to locate data? How to modify reporting system input? How to create an audit path? What are the different approaches (balanced scorecards, management scorecards, etc.)? What are the dangers in reporting tool selection criteria?
Valuation: assimilation of the principal methods of enterprise valuation, and assimilation of the evaluator approach so as to be able to assess the relevance of a enterprise valuation.
Transaction services :
- anticipation of the risks and difficulties of a transaction: understanding of the acquisition/sale process, and knowledge of how to implement a methodology for identifying and dealing with the risks inherent in transactions;
- merger and business transfer engineering: understanding of legal, accounting and taxation aspects of these transations.
Risk and internal audit:
- evolution of the internal audit function – constraints or opportunities for other uses of processes: : introduction of an approach meeting statutory obligations while preparing the enterprise for other possible uses of its processes;
- risk control – an innovative approach for all enterprises: : introduction of an operational risk control method and a method of controlling accounting and financial information construction processes. How to analyse and manage complexity? How to identify risk? How to qualify the intensity of risks with operational management?
