Finance for Non-Finance Executives

Interpret company accounts – decipher them and discover what balance sheets and income statements reveal about your company’s performance.

Use accounting for management decisions – make confident decisions about your organisation’s future exploring financial performance customer profitability product and service costs and project appraisals.

Analyse shareholder value – give your strategic decision-making a boost exploring company valuation risk and return and performance measures.

Experience fresh insights new perspectives and a host of practical exercises that broaden your financial acumen.

Illuminate your understanding of finance. Immerse yourself in an environment where everything applies directly to your business.

Analyse the annual reports of two major supermarkets. Understand their financial performance recognise new opportunities and forecast different profitability scenarios.

Explore real-world scenarios through international case studies.

Become proficient in financial language and terminology – communicate knowledgably and with confidence at all levels.

Gain a strong grasp of best practice corporate financial management grounded within the context of your everyday decisions.

Develop the skills to prepare budgets and forecasts for operations and develop models that answer short-run 'what-if' questions.

Discover how to analyse and benchmark your company’s financial performance.

Use discounted cash-flow principles and net present value (NPV) techniques to perform successful project appraisals.

Make informed valuable contributions to board-level discussions with new expertise and a deeper understanding of financial reports.

Develop the critical finance skills to accurately identify future problems – and successfully exploit new opportunities.

Make effective decisions backed up with a clear understanding of the implications for your company’s financial performance and value.

Use activity analysis to manage product and customer costs.

Understand the relationship between risk and return.

Make better operational decisions based on the factors affecting performance and shareholder value.