“Finance for non financial professionals” is a unique e-learning training course on the market. Its strength lies in making a complicated topic simple in record time, by using common sense and good operating practice. The participants experience and overcome a real challenge, that of making sense of managerial and strategic decisions from within their company and pinpointing their role and their contribution in the collective economic performance.Course content
This course is built of 5 e-Learning modules each taking around 30 minutes
1. Decoding the balance sheet and income statement
- Understanding the content of the balance sheet
- Learning the composition of the income statement
- Making changes to the balance sheet and P&L
- Identifying your contribution to these documents
- Analysing a balance sheet and a P&L
2. Analysing and evaluating corporate financial data
- Mastering the basics of financial analysis
- Using ratios to help with financial analysis
- Detecting additional sources of information for financial market stakeholders
- Understanding scoring and rating: the external view of banks and financial markets
3. Relating your contribution to value creation
- Understanding the five fundamentals of value creation
- Positioning your role and contribution on the value creation tree
- Understanding the cash flow statement and the importance of Free Cash Flow
- Positioning your role in the cash flow management process
4. Strategic vision and activity management
- Getting your business under control
- Objectives for deployment
- Deploying result-oriented action plans
- The business plan: figures and comments
5.Constructing and managing a budget
- The forecast for managing a business
- The budget: an essential step in managing the company
- The role of the manager in the budget process
- The budget as a communication tool
- Performing re-forecasts and analysing differences
Who should attend?
Who will benefit from this course?
This is an introductory course for everyone in the organisation. This course is designed for non-financial professionals, particularly those in roles where it is important that they understand the financial implications of the decisions they make.
Benefits for you
Benefits for you, the participant;
- Improved understanding of how the company economy works
- Keys to allow managers to make sense of decisions with a high economic content
- Clarification for all on their role and contribution at an economic level
- Progress charts both as part of professional management and private management
Course duration
There are 5 modules in this e-Course, taking about 30 minutes each depending on the individual. You can access the modules any time during a 12 month period allowing you to complete at your own speed and also revisit any modules to refresh your learning.
As affiliates of the CPD Institute, Cegos is committed to supporting the learner and each e-Course contributes 4 CPD hours to the learner’s development.
