Our Business School seeks to promote innovation and spread best practices among working professionals worldwide. Our course portfolio reflects the changing needs in business environment. Professional development courses and seminars we offer are intensive, highly targeted and practical.

Depending upon your career objectives, learning style, and company needs, you may select courses from the different categories we specialise in.


Program Forward Schedule 2010

(1) Understanding and Enhancing Your
Financial Modelling Capabilities
23 - 25 June 2010, London
Based around a case study, this course will give you an understanding of the practical issues involved in developing and running models for different projects and needs. Whether you are a manager who requires financial models for the first time or someone who wishes to build such models this workshop will enhance your modeling abilities and understanding of their valuable analysis tools.

(2) Risk-Based Auditing for Oil & Gas Joint Venture/Production
Sharing Agreements
14 - 16 July 2010, London
A strong risk management process can reduce the probability of project failure by as much as 80 percent. In combination with solid project management practices, a good risk management process is critical in cutting down unexpected outcomes. Auditing the project throughout it’s life from the project development stage to the post implementation review and adopting a risk based approach is a proven way to maximise the opportunity to deliver the project to time, to budget and fully meet the needs of all interested parties.

(3) Effective Cost Allocation Techniques
in Oil & Gas Joint Venture Arrangements
28 - 30 July 2010, London

(4) Aligning Budgeting with Strategy: A Business Imperative
4 - 6 August 2010, London
The dual concepts of business strategy and budgeting are no longer new in business world. What is surprisingly new is how unrelatedly these critical documents are operated in practice. Often in most establishments, operational activities are gulf away from strategic direction of the organization. This unique course is designed to explore the critical interlink between budgeting and business strategy.

(5) Managing Assets Critical to Operations (Sharing International Best Practice in Physical Assets Management)
25 - 27 August 2010, London
This programme is designed for multi-disciplined participants with diverse corporate and technical backgrounds in industries and public sector where infrastructure asset is a critical factor for organizational success. Programme extremely recommended for Asset Management Leaders/Champions, Asset Management team members, engineers, accountants, facility managers working within oil and gas industry, government agencies (National Oil Companies and Ministries) and the support and service sectors to the industry.

(6) Pensions Governance and Administration
8 - 10 September, London
The recent global economic downturn has increased pressure on pension schemes and regulators to protect wider stakeholders interest. Demands posed by this market volatility as well as demographic change and regulatory development make pension scheme management more challenging. Modern governance practices provide the framework for those responsible for sound pensions provision to address these challenges and establish solid best practices.

(7) Advance Financial Statement Analysis
28 - 30 September, London
In theory, the analysis of a financial statement should be an easy task. However in practice, it is not always simple to use accounting information to make the right business and investment decisions. This program will provide you with the necessary analytical framework and a wide array of practical tools to help you understand and exploit information in financial statements.

(8) Strategic Sales and Marketing
6 - 8 October 2010, London
There are time-tested marketing tools and approaches that help to improve business development and increase sales. This program promises to be a discovery session for new concepts and practices that will enrich your understanding and unlock your desired business development result.

(9) Managing Assets Critical to Operations (Sharing International Best Practice in Physical Assets Management)
8 - 10 December 2010, London
This programme is designed for multi-disciplined participants with diverse corporate and technical backgrounds in industries and public sector where infrastructure asset is a critical factor for organizational success. Programme extremely recommended for Asset Management Leaders/Champions, Asset Management team members, engineers, accountants, facility managers working within oil and gas industry, government agencies (National Oil Companies and Ministries) and the support and service sectors to the industry.