Finance and Accounting for the Nonfinancial Professional (Online)

As you progress in your organization, understanding financial information, speaking the accounting language, and being able to conduct various financial analyses becomes increasingly important. If you have limited experience analyzing and interpreting accounting principles and financial statements, join Columbia Business School Executive Education online to ramp up your financial fluency.

In this practical five-week program, you will dissect the elements of financial statements and learn to apply key financial principles to your own business. Demystifying terms such as net present value (NPV), price-earnings ratio (PE), and forecasting will lead you to make decisions that deliver more value to your organization, improve your overall financial competence, and boost your business confidence.

We answer questions such as:

What is financial accounting?

How are common transactions reflected in the financial statements?

What are the uses and limitations of financial statements?

How do you reformulate financial statements to conduct informative analysis?

How do you evaluate the profitability, solvency, and liquidity of a company?

What are the key elements of planning and control?

How do you evaluate and select projects?

How do you estimate the value of a company?

How do you forecast financial statements for budgeting, performance evaluation, or valuation purposes?

Please contact our partners at Emeritus at

columbiaemeritus.org

, 1 315-982-5094, or 1 315-277-2746 for a personal conversation to learn more.

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As you progress in your organization, understanding financial information, speaking the accounting language, and being able to conduct various financial analyses becomes increasingly important. This program will provide you with the ability to use accounting information, communicate in financial terms, and evaluate key financial aspects and ratios.