Financial Fluency for Non-Financial Managers: Advanced

Read between the numbers with big-picture strategies.

This program takes your financial management knowledge to the next level. Discover advanced techniques to measure performance, plan future actions and make informed business decisions that impress your team and your executives.

Empower Your Financial Decision Making

You’ve received basic financial training—but is that enough? This advanced program for non-financial managers is designed to sharpen your financial acumen and elevate your confidence in financial conversations. Gain insider knowledge on key financial accounting concepts and apply detailed statement analysis frameworks directly to your business.

Over two intensive days, you’ll build your own methodology for assessing financial health and uncover insights that support smarter strategic planning. You’ll also explore the latest innovations in strategic management accounting to make more informed, future-focused decisions.

Highly rated by current and aspiring managers across sectors such as project management, coordination, and development, this program empowers professionals to move from financial awareness to financial leadership.

If you’re a beginner to financial management, you can start with the basics in our Financial Fluency for Non-Financial Managers: Fundamentals program.

Learn to understand every aspect of financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements, statements of cash flows—and what to do with these insights.

Gain valuable tools for managing budgets, capital costs, and defining shareholder value using the balanced scorecard approach. Learn to analyze your costs with activity-based costing and apply financial techniques to make capital budgeting decisions.

Understand accounting as the “scorecard” of a business that reveals performance, problems, and prospects. Learn the steps to interpreting the numbers behind your business and make capital decisions based on measured evaluations.

Develop a foundation in financial accounting and prepare for a leadership role in project management, coordination and development.

Expand your existing financial acumen with advanced methodologies, and gain the skills and credentials for more senior roles in project management, coordination and development.

Aspiring and current business owners will gain absolute fluency in their organization’s financial status and oversee organizational budgets and capital costs with confidence.

This program packs advanced techniques and hands-on learnings in just 2 days, so you can start strategizing right away.

Get an education in financial accounting without needing a financial background and quickly gain advanced financial techniques.

Train with top-rated Schulich instructors that are consistently ranked among the world’s best.

Schulich ExecEd students gain the confidence, skills and perspective to attain better roles, launch new ventures, and lead their teams to new heights.