Fundamentals of Finance & Accounting

Financial skills and knowledge are vital for all managers in all organisations. A more challenging business and economic climate and an increase in financial delegation is making this even more so.

Many senior professionals miss formal training in finance and often feel uncomfortable when discussing financial matters with their peers and financial professionals.This interactive and engaging programme addresses these important issues.

Key areas covered in this program include:

• Reading, interpreting and using financial statements (internal and external)
• Improving business cases and decision making
• Casting and presenting plans and proposals
• Working more effectively with budgets
• Delivering improved financial performance, profit & cash flow

Objectives

At the end of this program delegates will be able to:

• Read and interpret financial statements
• Analyse business performance
• Contribute to cash and working capital management
• Build budgets and Manage costs and budgets
• Present business cases and utilise financing techniques to improve decision making

Training Methodology

The training uses an interesting mix of lively discussion, case studies and exercises, contemporary examples and videos.

They focus on the practical application of concepts and ideas. Experiences from real business situations and decisions will be used to bring concepts to life.Delegates are requested to bring copies of their organization’s accounts together with internal financial reports that they work with.

The course will have a number of break out sessions, multiple choice and other question and answer sessions, and case studies to demonstrate the concepts covered and provide real live practical examples, which will facilitate learning.

Organizational Impact

Organisations will benefit from trained managers who will:

• Make better business and management decisions and cases
• Manage budgets and resources more effectively
• Have better regard for their impacts on:
• Profit
• Cash
• Business Risk
• Business Performance
• Work more effectively with colleagues in other functions (including finance)
• Identify more opportunities to improve business performance
• Provide knowledge and understanding that can be shared amongst other departments of the business

Personal Impact

Participants will be able to advance their careers as a result of understanding the various subject covered. In particular they will be able to:

• Understand the basic concepts of finance as it relates to their businesses
• Interpret their organizations financial signals
• Think and speak the language of finance
• Read and understand balance sheets and profit-and-loss statements
• Understand how to control and manage a companies cash flow

Who Should Attend?

• All Professionals with financial responsibility
• Financial professionals wishing to brush up their knowledge and skills
• Junior personnel seeking career progression
• Senior Executives seeking to refresh their understanding or fill in some gaps in their professional development.