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COLOUR ACCOUNTING: 

Make Better Business Decisions for Non-Financial Professionals & Managers

12 - 13 November 2019 | Day 1: 9.00AM - 5.00PM, Day 2: 9.00AM - 1.00PM PARKROYAL Kuala Lumpur 

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Colour Accounting is used worldwide by 25,000+ professionals in over 500 organisations 

In order to understand how your organisation is performing right now and to evaluate, assess, and devise new strategies to boost future performance, you need information. Financial statements are a critical source of the information you need. ​ As professionals and managers in an organization, law firm, government agency or non-profit organisation, are you or your team...

  • Finds it difficult to interpret financial data into useful information? 
  • Uncomfortable to face budget expenses or deal with financial data to make decisions? 
  • Confused by the accounting terms and find it very challenging to interpret of financial information? 
  • Uncertain or uncomfortable when making decisions?  
  • Doing your part in meeting financial goals?  
  • Aware of how your daily decision-making make an impact on profit?  
  • Blindly replicating last year’s budget?  

Whichever industry you’re in, running an SME, larger business or organisation knows that achieving and maintaining financial control is absolutely vital.  

It means you need to make sure your managers are financially literate and confident to make the right decisions.

Start with accounting literacy!  

Learn Finance and Accounting for Better Decision -Making

Why Colour Accounting Works?

The Color Accounting approach to accounting learning is interactive: Logical colors, vivid diagrams, plain language, accelerated learning techniques, and even special sound effects, cater to all learning styles. 

Colorful diagrams means that learners are now able to – literally – see how accounting, finance and business work.  

Color Accounting is a teaching system that uses diagrams and logical colours to show graphically how accounting and business work so you or your team will make better decisions.

We fully engage the participants with story-telling, physical materials and vivid models during the workshop. They use their hands, their senses and their minds. No boring slides, no power failures, no 'same old same old'. 

The accelerated learning and adult learning means it all fits into one-and-a-half energizing day. 

Right from the start we want our participants to be thinking: "Hmmmm, this seems a little different to what I was expecting. It could even be enjoyable." "This sure beats the tired old Finance For Non-Financial Managers course I sat through before."


“The actual discussions with real examples and engagements throughout training session creates a learning environment easy for all.” Robert Bosch

“I could finally understand financial statement & how respective department work/actions IMPACT the overall company's health. I believe this would help to facilitate discussion and have better decision making!”  

Sephora

By improving your people’s financial literacy, you’ll improve the organisation's performance by: 

  • Developing a deep understanding of the Balance Sheet
  • Deriving the Income Statement and understanding how it connects with the Balance Sheet
  • Clearly and unforgettably defining Assets, Liabilities, Equity, Revenue & Expenses
  • Integrating these five elements into a holistic view called the BaSIS Framework™
  • Understanding the Value Cycle of business
  • Practicing financial communication: grasping not only terminology, but also ambiguity of terms, and communication pitfalls  
  • Identifying the drivers of cash flow, and how they are reported on the Cash Flow Statement
  • Analyzing financial statements of a business and identifying risk areas, performance changes, opportunities for improvement
  • Calculating financial measures, including EBITDA Preparing budgets and forecasts
  • Communicate more powerfully with investors, regulator and partners
  • Understand your clients' businesses and pitch with confidence at a senior level
  • Promote financial leadership 


And so much more! 

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Early Bird Fee: RM1,950 per pax (save RM650) 

Official Rate: RM2,600 per pax Group of 3 pax : RM7,800 RM5,000 

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“It is definitely helpful for those who do not deal with accounts on daily basis to understand the fundamentals. Trainer is engaging and always making sure everyone understands the concept.” AYER Holdings Berhad  

“The training is very lively, interesting and creative which non-finance people able to understand and absorb the finance knowledge, much more. It helps me a lot to have better understanding on the financial report and the overview of an organization.”

Sunway Berhad

Program Outline

Colour Accounting is a 1.5-day financial workshop that uses patented pictures and clear language for easy learning that works like never before.

1. The Fundamentals of Business Acumen  

  • Business acumen, financial literacy and accounting literacy – getting the order right 
  • A system of organising financial information 
  • Structure, language and movement 
  • A brief history of accounting, the BaSIS Framework and the use of colour  

 

2. Deriving the Accounting Framework 

  • The dual life of assets 
  • The funding butterfly – assets and claims to the assets 
  • Sources of funds, uses of funds and the Balance Sheet 
  • The Balance Sheet and how business events are represented in it 
  • The Income Statement and how it tells the profit story of a business 
  • Definitions of asset, liability, equity, income and expense 
  • The BaSIS Framework  


3. Classic Transactions Using the BaSIS Framework 

  • Classic Transactions using BaSIS: Borrowing cash; Receive equity investment; Loan repayment; Buying on credit; Purchasing an asset with cash; Credit sale with cost of sale; Accrued expense; Deferred income; Account receivable paid; Deferred income earned; Prepaid expense; Depreciation; Amortisation  

   

3. Classic Transactions Using the BaSIS Framework (Cont')

  • The six accrual scenarios  
  • Cash accounting 
  • Debits and Credits 
  • Summary of transactions and how it links to financial statements  


4. Telling a Business Story

  • From BaSIS to financial statements 
  • Interpreting the Balance Sheet 
  • Interpreting the Income Statement  
  • Deriving the Cashflow statement 
  • The value cycle of a business 
  • Telling the business story through financial statements  


5. Introduction to Financial Analysis

  • Introduction to financial analysis  
  • The principal business objective  
  • The 3 levers of business  
  • Profitability ratios; Return on Equity; Return on total assets; Gearing; Net profit margin; Asset turnover; Gross profit margin; Current ratio; Inventory turn over; Collection days; Payable days; and Cash conversion cycle Case Study  



Who Uses The New Way Of Learning Financial Literacy?

Professionals at all levels of organisation including:

  • Non-financial managers
  • Heads of departments
  • Human resource and L&D managers
  • Senior- & mid-level executives  
  • Senior & mid-level executives
  • Entrepreneurs & business owners
  • Lawyers / Attorneys
  • People in leadership positions  

Clients That Have Worked With Us


Who We Are

Our goal at QUEST Learning is to help organisations improve performance, productivity and profits through result-based training, coaching and consulting.  

For over 30 years, we have worked with global brands and hundreds of organisations throughout Asia, bringing tangible results and improvement to their organisations. Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, we serve our clients throughout the region from our offices in China, Singapore, Hong Kong and Indonesia, providing our clients the opportunity to work on a regional platform.  

We provide organisation- and industry-specific solutions in 6 areas: Business Acumen, Leadership & Management, Persuasive Communication & Influence, Sales & Marketing, Service Quality, and Organisational Development.