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The NCSU Financial and Strategic Analysis Workshop, October 3-5, 2012, Raleigh, N.C., USA

You will learn basic and sophisticated tools to analyze business operations, estimate financial outcomes, and support decision making. In this workshop, you will also discover how to:

  • Understand the critical role of reinvesting in pulp and paper mill assets to ensure long term survival and prosperity
  • Study basics of capital budgeting, cost of capital (cost of debt and cost of equity), and financial indicators to allow you to use these tools to build financial analyses and sell your ideas, products and services
  •  Appreciate the importance of cost structure and how you can increase your competitive advantage by managing your costs
  • Explain in financial terms the impact of your operation, research, new technique, or new product
  • Build an entire financial analysis from scratch with the assistance of recognized Business Operation Instructors with decades of experience in business operations in the pulp and paper industry
  • Learn the basis for strategic planning and decision-making.

Who Should Attend?

 This workshop is especially beneficial for:

  • Managers at pulp and paper mills and business units responsible for strategic planning
  • Engineering consultants who provide strategic studies to pulp and paper mill clients
  • Sales and service personnel who want to sell their ideas to customers and upper level management
  • Superintendents and engineers who want to understand how to measure profitability and costs in their operations
  • Managers who want to understand the financial outcomes of process improvements and capital projects
  • Research and development engineers and scientists looking to calculate the potential financial impact of their research
  • Engineers who are new to the pulp, paper and related industries Register today to apply your new skills in business and financial analysis and take your job performance to the next level.

Register today to apply your new skills in business and financial analysis and take your job performance to the next level.

 

Xerium Technologies, Inc.
SGS Group Management
Sweed Machinery, Inc