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Business Finance Programmes for non-Financial Managers

F1. Finance & Accounting for non-Financial Managers

A 3-day workshop programme for any result-responsible manager who needs to know about business finance.

Participants will:

· Achieve proficiency in understanding, interpreting and applying the financials of the reporting system to support performance management.

· Apply the principles of Value Based Management (VBM) to daily operational and strategic decisions, and make use of value trees and Economic Profit Realized (EPR)

· Achieve mastery in managing the financials, not only the results but also the Net Operating Capital and the Cash Flow.

· Understand the principles of Finance and apply them to the preparation and evaluation of capital investment proposals.

· Relate the use of financials to the overall control of the organization.

F2. Advanced Finance & Accounting for non-Financial Managers

This 2-day workshop programme is especially designed for the senior, non-financial managers and specialists who need to know more than just the basics of Finance, as a follow up to their earlier learnings from the ‘Finance & Accounting for non-Financial Managers’ programme.

Participants will increase proficiency through an intensive training in the key business finance concepts which cover Planning and Control, Governance, Value and Risk management, Financial and Strategic Decision Making and Financial Markets. The learning setup will be highly interactive, with case-driven discussions all related to the daily practice of business management.

F3. Writing a Financial Strategy Plan for non-Financial Managers

In general, this 2-day training helps managers who have little or no prior experience in finance to build credibility in their business cases. The learning is done in small theory blocks, combined with practical exercises. The participants will have the possibility to discuss their own business cases.

Participants will know :

The essential building blocks that every business case must have

What to look for in case reports
How to legitimize and measure the full range of business benefits
How to build a financial modeling system
How to present business case results for maximum impact.

The target audience are

Researchers who need to sell new ideas to the Product Divisions
Managers who are responsible for project, program, product or market proposals
Managers who are responsible for major IT acquisitions or changes
Sales people and sales managers who need to show customers that a decision to buy is a good business decision
Marketing managers who need to plan new market investments
All types of managers responsible for capital spending decisions