Finance for Non-finance Professionals

Making strategic decisions for business require multi-functional decision-making ability. Commercial and Financial skills are needed to formulate, implement and evaluate strategic decisions. Depending on the levels of management, the requirement for commercial and financial skills may vary, but rudimentary knowledge is essential for all decision-makers.

Managers and Executives around the world are increasingly expected to be multi-functional. Line functions decisions are no longer limited to a single responsibility centre. Competition drives firms to become leaner and take integrated decisions that take care of not just functional requirements but also address business decisions financial and commercial ramifications.

The overall design, will be experiential learning for participants. Theyll be trained and developed in understanding financial variables in the initial session. In the second stage, the use of different cost techniques, finance and management tools essential to strategic decision-making will be the topic of sessions. Finally, participants will discuss real-life-based cases provided by the instructor from prominent sources.

Date

Topic

Faculty

Time

11/09/2025

Inaugural, Overview of the Programme, Setting Expectations for Learning Outcomes

Dean / PIC – IC & EE /

Prof MVL/KSR/AJP

9.00a.m. to 10.30a.m

Introduction to Financial Statements and their relevance to Operations and Supply Chain

Prof. M. Venkateswarulu

11.15am to 12.45p.m.

Cash Flow Statement, Financial Statement Analysis

Prof. M.Venkateswarulu

2.00pm to 5.15pm

12/09/2025

Presentation of ratios from select companies

Prof. M.Venkateswarulu /

Prof. K. S. Ranjani

9.00a.m. to 10.30a.m

Decision making in business (Short Term); Marginal Costing Analysis

Prof. K. S. Ranjani

11.15p.m. to 12.45p.m.

Decision making in business (Long Term); Capital Budgeting

Prof. K. S. Ranjani

2.00pm to 5.00p.m.

13/09/2025

Capital Structure Decisions

Prof Ajay Kumar Panda

9.30a.m. to 1.00p.m.

Evaluation, Quiz and Wrap up

Prof. MVL/KSR

2.00pm to 5.00pm

Objectives

To transform managers without a degree in finance into financially & Commercially aware professionals and help them to identify key variables in financial statements that are critical for decision-making

This course aims to prepare managers to take strategic, directionally significant decisions.

The overall design, will be experiential learning for participants. Theyll be trained and developed in understanding financial variables in the initial session. In the second stage, the use of different cost techniques, finance and management tools essential to strategic decision-making will be the topic of sessions. Finally, participants will discuss real-life-based cases provided by the instructor from prominent sources.