COLOUR ACCOUNTING

Business know-how for everyone

Why Colour Accounting?

Perhaps you need to manage a Profit & Loss statement. Or maybe you want to get on top of budgets, or tighten up financial controls. For sales people, it's often about understanding a prospect's business better. And how to increase profits.
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Colour Accounting can help you with all of these. And it does so by getting to the root-cause of the issues. That's what makes it different. Our learners don't leave with a few terms written on a notepad.  No. They have breakthrough shifts in how they see business and their role in it. ​

Note that Colour Accounting (or or 'Color Accounting' if you prefer - we use both spellings) is currently available in English, Spanish, Arabic and Afrikaans. Simplified Chinese and other languages are coming soon.  Color Accounting International is a  social enterprise, with a dual social-impact and commercial motive.  We advocate accounting as a fundamental form of literacy, like Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. Accounting literacy has the power to improve lives, corporations, not-for-profit organizations and governments.

  

Who should attend?

Colour Accounting serves people at all levels of organizations like yours, including:

• Non-financial Managers
• Small Business Owners
• Administrators
• HR and L&D Managers
• C-Level Executives
• Senior, Mid-Level and Junior
• General and Technical
• Teams
• Non-Profit Organizations
• You

​When you want to

• Use a common financial language
• Confidently make great decisions more quickly
• Understand the importance of meeting financial goals
• See clearly how your role impacts the organization
• Create budgets based on latest financial information
• Fluently read and understand financial statements.

How will you benefit?

​Typical learning outcomes for a one-day Colour Accounting workshop include:

• 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™
• Recording transactions using the journal and general ledger
• 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

How will you learn?

1. Set the base

The Colour Accounting system lends itself to making a difference for people in many ways. Its simplicity makes it adaptable. All Colour Accounting in-house workshops are tailored to your specific needs. Tailoring ranges from emphasizing parts of the standard curriculum that are relevant to your organization, through the development of bespoke case studies based on your own data. Also for participants, we offer a pre-workshop questionnaire to assess current level and identify key areas to work on during the interactive seminar or workshop session. 

2. Push the pace

Typical delivery formats include:

• Seminars of a few hours, often to larger groups
• Workshops, typically a day with smaller groups
• ​Webinars
• Online courses
• Executive coaching

3. Apply & Thrive

Follow-up access to refresher tips, newsletter and social media groups.
Advanced topics are available to follow the core content of the Colour Accounting workshops and seminars. These include:

• Budgeting and forecasting
• Governmental accounting
• International accounting, US GAAP and IFRS
• Merger and acquisition issues
• Not-for-profit accounting
• Tax accounting
• Valuation
• Veracity analysis: high risk areas of financial statements
• What the CEO wants you to know: Key performance indicators

The Bottom Line

1. Build business acumen through developing accounting literacy and financial fluency
2. Enhance employee awareness and engagement and foster cross-department communication
3. Improve financial focus, performance & profitability