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Course objectives
- Increase the financial literacy and financial management capabilities of SME owners and SME business leaders
- Provide assistance on how SME owners and SME business leaders can get their companies into a better financial standing
- Raise the level of awareness of how SME owners and SME business leaders can access different forms of capital for their financing needs
Benefits of Attending
The PwC Financial Management Masterclass for Singapore SME Business Owners and SME business leaders is designed by and developed by PwC and supported by Enterprise Singapore (ESG) to help Singapore SME business owners and business leaders understand and acquire effective Financial Management skills to help them strategize and grow their business.
This intensive workshop will help SME business owners build and sharpen their financial management capabilities. It will dive into key areas such as raising debt & equity financing and unlocking cash for the business in order to build greater resilience for the business.
This programme will also feature a number of panel discussions and fireside chats with experienced practitioners from banking and financial institutions, as well as successful SME business owners and CFOs with SME experience.
Course programme
Please refer to detailed schedule below for the 3-day programme. Contact us below for more information.
Understanding how lenders view your company - finance fundamentals for SMEs
| Topic | Outline |
|---|---|
Why financial statements matter and how to understand them |
Who are the users?
The components of financial statements:
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Business analysis |
How to use financial statements for decision making
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ESG special: Lunch and Learn |
Insights from banks/ lenders/ investors – Session 1 |
| Funding through the lens of a lender - raising debt finance |
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PwC special: Fireside chat with CFOs/ founders double hatting as CFOs |
CFOs/ Founders double hatting as CFOs with SME experience will share insights on the importance of having a CFO, the role they play in the fund raising process and answer any burning questions. |
Financing strategies for SMEs - through the lens of an investor
| Topic | Outline |
|---|---|
Nailing the fundamental |
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Through the lens of an investor - financing strategies and access to equity capital |
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ESG special: Lunch and Learn |
Insights from banks/ lenders/ investors – Session 2 |
Investment and fund raising |
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PwC special: Fireside chat with valuation and M&A experts |
The art and science of valuation, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) |
Unlocking Ca$h | Finance concepts | Warning signals
| Topic | Outline |
|---|---|
Nailing the fundamental |
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Working capital management - Unlocking Ca$h for your business |
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PwC special: Lunch and Learn |
Tax 101 highlights |
| Corporate bankruptcy and insolvency |
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Cash forecasting and budgeting |
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Understanding the difference between cash flow and profit |
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Warning signals |
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Subject experts and trainers
- Anthony Moore
- Teo Chee Kiong
- Sim Hwee Hong
- Christopher Tan
- Colin Lew
Anthony Moore
Programme Director and Chief Trainer
Anthony Moore has more than 20 years of experience advising clients on their financial and communications training strategy across a broad range of industries. To date, Tony has conducted training for more than 12,000 participants in finance and working capital management over a span of more than 20 years at PwC Singapore.
Tony is one of PwC’s leading workshop facilitators for both face to face training and virtual learning and has designed and facilitated workshops successfully in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, France, USA, South Africa, Azerbaijan, Dubai, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
Teo Chee Kiong
Trainer
Chee Kiong has more than 13 years of M&A experience across the deal continuum. He has extensive experience in the private equity market in Southeast Asia. He also spent two years with PwC Australia and three years in the private equity sector.
Chee Kiong has supported large and mid-tiers private equity and corporate clients in their investment and sale process. The deals he has involved range from privatisation, leverage/management buy-out, minority stake investments and credit deals.
He holds Bachelor of Business Administration with a major in Finance from National University of Singapore. He is a Chartered Accountant in Singapore and Fellow member of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK).
Sim Hwee Hong
Trainer
Hwee Hong is a PwC Singapore Partner specialising in merger and acquisition advisory and has extensive cross border deals experience having spent 8 years in New York, 5 years in China and most recently, 2 years in Japan in our respective Deals teams. Hwee Hong is focused on guiding our clients’ through the M&A transaction process, performing financial and operational due diligence reviews, carve-out advisory, business plan reviews, business valuation considerations, assistance with deal structuring, post-deal transitional issues and advising on purchase price adjustment and completion matters.
Christopher Tan
Trainer
Christopher is a Partner within PwC Singapore Deals Valuation and Accounting Advisory where he also leads the specialist Sale and Purchase Agreement (“SPA”) services in Singapore. Christopher has over 18 years of professional experience in providing audit and advisory related services.
He advises clients on complex accounting and valuation matters, such as those relating to business combinations, structuring of acquisition debt/equity instruments, purchase price allocation exercise, intellectual property valuation, goodwill impairment test and application of IFRS.
Christopher provides buy side and sell side advice on SPAs to both corporate and private equity clients and regularly conducts accounting and valuation training both internally and externally.
Colin Lew
Trainer
Colin is a Senior Manager in PwC Singapore’s valuations advisory team. He has worked with various clients undertaking projects spanning M&A valuation, impairment testing, stock option valuation, litigation support and purchase price allocations (PPA). He has been with PwC Singapore for more than 7 years and has worked with various clients in Singapore and abroad.
Colin graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and Marketing. Colin is a specialist in valuation and has worked with his clients on numerous M&A deals, including cross-border deals with targets in Asia Pacific, South East Asia, Europe and the United States.
*Trainers' involvement in each workshop is subject to availability and PwC reserves the right to change the appointed trainers at its own discretion.
Masterclass feedback from SME Owners, CEOs, CFOs ...
- Very interesting course. Trainers made a dry topic interesting and bearable. Enjoyed the 3 days workshop
- Overall a very good course and would recommend it to others
- Good exercise to try and understand companies based on financial statements/figures
- Card game gives a very simplified explanation on how we can separate the financial entries between balance and Income statements
- It was an excellent way to understand the business items because it was visually presented
Course fees
| Applicant profile | Singapore Citizens aged between 21 to 39 years old / Permanent Residents aged 21 and above | Singapore citizens aged 40 and above |
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (SME-sponsored Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents) |
Non-Singaporeans /Non- Permanent Residents |
| Subsidy Category & Amount | Up to 50% of course fees | Up to 70% of course fees | Up to 70% of course fees | Full course fee, no SkillsFuture funding |
| Full course fee | $1,300.00 | $1,300.00 | $1,300.00 | $1,300.00 |
| SkillsFuture funding | $650.00 | $910.00 | $910.00 | - |
| Nett Course fee | $650.00 | $390.00 | $390.00 | $1,300.00 |
| GST 9% (on Full course fee) | $117.00 | $117.00 | $117.00 | $117.00 |
| Payable course fee (Including 9% GST) | $767.00 | $507.00 | $507.00 | $1,417.00 |
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