On July 17 and 18, 2017, the Development Center for Finance successfully conducted its Corporate Finance training for Land Bank of the Philippines at the Cesar E.A. Virata School of Business, UP Diliman, Quezon City.

Topics discussed include:

• Understanding Financial Statements
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Working Capital Management
• Time Value of Money
• Risk and Return Concepts
• Capital Budgeting
• Capital Structure

There were 27 participants and some of the feedback were as follows:

“Provides clear picture of how financial statements are prepared. Delved more on how we can understand and analyze the figures more than how to compute.”

“Objective of providing info about financial position and performance was met. Exercises are good and we were not overwhelmed. We appreciated how financial statements are analyzed.”

“Explained how to compute, understand and compare results of financial statements in a way that is so comprehensible to not-so-young participants of the class. Conveyed in layman and we understood it.”

“So considerate to participants to deliberately start at an easy level, ensuring that the next modules build on that foundation.”

“Subject is very beneficial in making important decisions in Finance.”