Training Programmes - Management Suite

Finance for the Non Financial Manager

Overview

No manager can be can manage a department, team, project or a business without being able to get their head around finance. Understanding the principles and methods of financial management will help participants to see the monetary implications of the decisions they make. This workshop will provide participants with a broad introduction to financial principles

This programme is ideal for:

Managers in non-financial areas who are making business decisions with financial implications or preparing budgets and need to understand, collate, and interpret financial information.

Programme deliverables:

By the end of the course you will be able to communicate easily in financial terms, comprehend the content of financial statements, analyse and interpret financial information, understand the importance of cash flow, match your budgets to realistic targets, accurately appraise investments and, moreover, make sound business decisions on these new found skills.

To give an effective understanding of financial concepts and language?
To help you understand the financial consequences of your decisions?
To enable you to effectively analyse financial information from both internal and external sources and make sound business decisions based on your analyses?
To give you a thorough grasp of the management of budgets, costings, pricing and project appraisals

Content


This is an intensive two day course which will give you an insight into
the “big picture” of accounting and finance and how this relates to daily business decisions
analysing and interpreting financial information
cash flow and cash management
sources of finance
Financial ratios and analysis
measuring and managing costs
planning and budgetary control

Costing and pricing

project appraisal
The budgeting process

Additional Information


Course Leader: Patricia is a qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Pricewaterhouse Coopers in 1989. Since then, she has held different senior management roles in banking, distribution and education. She now lectures extensively in Accounting and acts as Financial Consultant to small businesses.