Investment Readiness Under Uncertainty Workshop

From trading relationships to technology, most aspects of running a small business are changing.

With the current political and economic uncertainty, businesses in the UK shall prepare for the ‘new normal’, boost business confidence and strive to become investment ready.

This free workshop will help business evaluate the past, present and future of business finance, identify issues in their access of finance, provide evolving finance methods to raise fund, value a company using various techniques and forecasting methods, gain insights of different investors and recognise other important factors that might affect investment readiness.

Overview

The workshop will consist of 6 hours of free online training delivered over 3 days (2 hour blocks each). Each training session will provide a snapshot of investment readiness under uncertainty, share practical knowledge and tools to attract investors and offer feedback to help businesses secure investment in the post-EU Exit and COVID-19 world.

The workshop will be practice-based professional learning and interactive with hands-on case studies and analysis tools.

The workshop will cover the following topics:

Day 1 – Wednesday 16th September

• Reviewing your business finance: past, present and future in the post EU Exit and COVID-19 world
• Access to finance: traditional finance vs innovative finance and Fintech

Day 2 – Thursday 17th September

• Valuing a business: performance, valuation and forecasting techniques

Day 3 – Friday 18th September

• Knowing your investor: equity investment, venture capital and crowdfunding
• Investment readiness: big pitch

Take Homes

At the end of the day, using cutting-edge knowledge and proven techniques from the workshop, you will develop effective and self-renewing strategies to help your business become investment ready. More importantly, benefiting from practice of investor pitches and feedback from the workshop, you will be able to identify the right investors and increase the opportunities to secure investment deals under Brexit uncertainty.

Course Tutor – Dr Ying Wang

Dr Ying Wang is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at Anglia Ruskin University and the Director of Enterprise Innovation and Financial Technology. Her current research centres on economics and finance, innovation and FinTech, entrepreneurial finance, accounting and finance, political risk, AI and health economics. Via different projects, Dr Wang has collaborated with leading researchers and practitioners in the UK, Canada and China. She has professional working experience in investment and manufacture industries in China and financial services in the UK before working in higher education.