Publishing Finance: An Introduction

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Publishing Finance: An Introduction


Dates:

1 October 2008 (a one-day course)

 

Price:

£349+VAT (a number of discounts are available)

 

Venue:

The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)


Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability

 

"I feel that my decisions at work will be more thought through in terms of how they will affect the rest of the business."

Kyle Cathie delegate



What are the financial implications of your decisions?


This course will tell you! By the end of the day you'll be able to:

 

  • read and understand key financial reports
  • appreciate why cash flow is so important
  • predict the likely financial implications of your own publishing projects.

 

Whether you've just gained responsibility for your own budgets, or simply need to understand financial reports more clearly, this course is for you.


You'll learn about a wide range of financial documents, and, working in a group on a variety of case studies, you'll gain practical experience of using financial reports in publishing. So when you return to work you'll not only understand financial reports, you'll be able to use them for forecasting in your own day-to-day work.

Programme

  • Sources and uses of money
  • Budgets and forecasts: setting and controlling them
  • “Finance is algebra”: understanding terms
  • “The Balance Sheet Barrier”: video
  • Profit & Loss account: building the picture
  • Overheads: the hidden cost
  • Exercise 1: what are you left with?
  • Profit & Loss account
    • Exercise 2: a mid-year change
    • Exercise 3: revising the forecast down
  • Reading P & L accounts
  • Balance sheet: how does it balance?
  • Ratios: which are the key ones?
  • Cash flow: planning the big project
  • Exercise 4: “Encyclopedia of Asia”
    • Long-term publishing and forecasting financial need

 

The Publishing Training Centre also offers a more advanced finance course, Financial Planning and Decision Making. To help you decide which course would be best for you, we've devised a brief self-assessment questionnaire. Download this as a Word file or call 020 8874 2718 for a copy.


Your tutor
Richard Balkwill has more than 25 years' experience in educational and children's reference publishing, latterly as a publishing director at Heinemann. He is now an independent consultant running CopyTrain, a writing, training and copyright service for publishers. He is also the author of The Multilingual Dictionary of Copyright, Rights and Contracts.


Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in company events.


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Dates: 1 October 2008

Price: £349+VAT (a number of discounts are available).

Venue: The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels).

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Course title:
Publishing Finance: An Introduction
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£349 +VAT
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1 October 2008