Principles of Finance for Non-Financial Managers

Program Overview 

All companies need to deal with finance and budgets. But not everyone studied them beforehand. Thanks to this course, those with some or no financial knowledge will understand financial concepts and discuss them more efficiently with financial personnel, applying their newfound knowledge to daily tasks, analyses, and measurements. Expand your abilities for company management, assess financial risks, analyze statements and customize master budgets flawlessly after 2 days.

Objectives

Upon completing the Financial course, participants will be able to:

• Understand fundamental finance
  terminology and key concepts
• Acknowledge day-to-day decisions impact on your company’s flow of money and profit
• Apprehend the three key financial
  statements: balance sheet, income statement, and cash flows statement
• Perform analysis of financial statements through vertical, horizontal, and ratio analyses

Benefits

• Strong understanding of accounting and financial statements
• Evaluation of financial ratios
• Identification of under-performing aspects of a business
• Financial analysis to value business opportunities

Course Modules

Financial Basics

• Financial management: capital structure, cash flow considerations and return on investments
• Risk assessment
• Understanding financial statements
• Accounting equation: assets, liabilities and equity accounts
• Accounting management: fixed, variable, and mixed costs
• Budgeting methods and creating a master budget

Operations

• Operational Budgeting
• Operating and Financial Leverage
• Working Capital Management
• Current Asset and Debt Management

Budgeting and Risk

• Capital Budgeting
• Valuing Investments
• Decisions and Risk

Training Methodology

• Instruction by an expert facilitator
• Practical illustrations
• Interactive classes
• Group discussions
• Workshops
• Simulations
• Case studies