Seminar Overview

This seminar is designed for procurement and purchasing buyers with limited exposure to financial statements. Participants will develop a structured understanding of how to read financial reports and build the financial perspective essential for buyers.
Through Excel-based exercises, participants will learn the structure of core financial statements — Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow — along with key financial metrics, and connect these concepts directly to day-to-day procurement practice.

Do Any of These Challenges Sound Familiar ?

  • Looking at a supplier's financial statements but not knowing where to start
  • Struggling to clearly explain the differences between B/S, P/L, and C/F
  • Wanting to assess a supplier's business health but lacking the criteria to judge
  • Finding terms like "insolvency," "retained earnings," or "cash flow" intimidating
  • Believing that financial analysis is only for the accounting or finance department
  • Looking at financial ratios but unable to determine if a company is strong or weak

Skills Gained

  • Knowledges：Financial literacy covering the structure of B/S, P/L, Cash Flow, and Manufacturing Cost Statements, and how they relate to business operations and cost flows.
  • Metrics：Ability to interpret key procurement-relevant financial indicators: profitability, solvency (including insolvency risk), efficiency (CCC), and productivity (labor cost ratio)
  • Analysis：Practical application of the 4-step financial analysis framework (Visualize → Balance Check → Evaluate → Strategy) using Excel
  • Prep：The conceptual grounding and vocabulary needed to advance to the Advanced Masterclass 
■Information

Program

１．Corporate Management & Financial Statement
  • Corporate Activities and Financial Statements
  • Basic Financial Statements
    • Balance Sheet
    • Income Statement
    • Manufacturing Process and Cost Flow
    • Cash-Flow

This session covers the fundamentals of business operations and financial flows, manufacturing activities and cost flows, and how to read financial statements.

２．Financial Indicators
  • Profitability
  • Sustainability (Retained earnings, negative equity)
  • Productivity (Cash Conversion Cycle)
  • Efficiency (Labor Share)
  • Cash Flow

In this session, we will learn four (4) financial indicators (profitability, solvency, efficiency, productivity, and growth).

? Buyer's points will be explained

３．Financial Analysis Steps & Tips
  • Step 1- Make a drawing (using Excel)
  • Step 2- Check a Balance
  • Step 3- Assessment and analyze
  • Step 4- Make Action Plan

This session provides a clear explanation of the basic approach to financial analysis, broken down into four steps. In the Buyer Exam, we will explain the key points a buyer focuses on, using actual financial statements.

•Buyer Exam (1): Financial Assessment – 2 Company Comparison
•Buyer Exam (2): Financial Assessment – Two Years Assessment

４.　Closing
  • Discussion on Financial Indicators (Based on Real-World Experience)
    • Example 1: Corporate Bankruptcy
  • Q&A Session
    • Example 2: Do procurement organizations in global companies also conduct financial analysis?
    • Example 3: How can the procurement function contribute to increasing corporate value?
?Takeaways

✓ Financial Analysis Template for Comparing Two Companies (Excel)
✓ Financial Analysis Template for Comparing Two Reporting Periods (Excel)
✓ Financial Assessment Radar Chart Template (Excel)

Details

Provided by

Kenji SHINKAI
Global Sourcing Academy & Office, Representative

Target Participants
  • New procurement and purchasing team members
  • Buyers with up to approximately three years of experience, who wish to build a structured understanding of financial statements from the ground up. (Beginner level)
Place

Your office or Sites

Estimated Hours

3 - 4 Hours

Price
  • Transportation expenses and accommodation costs (when travel requires an overnight stay), with lodging expenses limited to JPY 15,000 (excluding tax) per night.
  • Course Fee (Excluding tax): JPY 25,000 per participant (If you feel that the course did not deliver the value you expected, we will refund the full course fee. Register with confidence)

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