Financial statements decoded: Reading and analysis for better business decision-making - Live webinar (8-Dec-2026)

Webinar sessions:
Session 1: 9:00am 12:00pm;
Session 2: 2:00pm 5:00pm

This webinar will help participants decode financial statements, enabling them to confidently read, analyse, and interpret key financial information. Learners will also gain practical skills to calculate financial ratios and assess the value of money, supporting better business decision-making and performance management.

Key topics covered:

Overview

• Introduction of accounting and financial management
• The role and need of accounting in business
• Difference between financial accounting and management accounting
• Accounting standards, concepts and equations

Understand and comprehend the components in an Audited Financial Statements.

• Introduction:
  • What is Financial Statement and what does it consist of?
  • Why and when is it prepared?
  • Its importance to stakeholders and who are they?
• Understanding its Quantitative Information in:
  • Statement of Comprehensive Income (profit & loss and OCI statement)
  • Statement of Financial Position.
  • Statement of Cash Flow and how to read it at ease.
  • Statement of Change in Equity
  • Notes to Financial Statement
• Understand its Qualitative Information of the Financial Statement
  • Directors Report
  • Directors Statement
  • Statutory Declaration
  • Independent Auditors Report of Different Type

Understand and analyse the financial statement using trend and financial ratios

• Trending
• Profitability
• Liquidity & Solvency
• Efficiencies
• Stability

Investment / capital expenditure evaluations:

• Payback period
• Present and Future value of money
• DCF / NPV / Internal Rate of Return

Market Analysis

• Earnings per share
• PE Ratio and earnings multiples
• Dividend payout ratio
• Dividend yield

Presenter:

Tan Kok Tee

Tan Kok Tee has 40 years of working experience in accounts and financial, strategic and general management field. He has held a variety of leadership and senior management roles in various organisations, starting in the accounts and finance department until CFO level and the last being Group Chief Executive Officer. Kok Tee has been involved in advisory, training and facilitation on an ad-hoc basis from 2009-2013, and full time from 2014 to now. To-date he had conducted about 400 training workshops throughout Malaysia on topics on GST; SST; Practical accounting for accounting staffs; Reading, analysing and interpreting financial statement; Accounting and finance for non-accounting managers; Customers credit evaluations and Collection strategies and so much more.