Financial Awareness Training for Non-finance

Next course: Friday 2nd March 2012, Central London, UK

finance for non-financial professionals

• Are you a non-finance professional or non-finance manager?
• Do you need an awareness of financial matters?
• Confused by the financial terminology used by accountants?
• Need to communicate confidently on financial matters?
• Do you have budget responsibility and need some guidance?
• Want to understand what the accountants are up to?

buy Strategic Financial Management online course

interesting training techniques to grow your confidence in finance

We can help you understand finance using simple and interesting training techniques.

If you need an introduction to finance, general financial awareness or to enhance your existing financial understanding you have come to right place.

Whether you are an office junior, a trainee, a manager, senior manager, director or even chief executive, you will find our course useful.
 

Course outline

Follow our four step path to financial awareness:

1. Get to grips with accounting fundamentals
• Make sense of accounting jargon
• Discover why not to use ‘cash accounting’ and why timing is essential
• Understand balance sheets
• Understand profit and loss accounts
• Understand cash flow statements
• Know who uses the financial statements and why
• Be aware of accounting regulation and law

2. Understand what makes a profit
Profit is the raison d’être for most businesses. Knowing how to make and increase profit is one of the key ingredients for business success.
• Know the importance of price and its relationship to volume & revenue
• Realise that not all costs are the same
• Understand how gross margins work
• Appreciate the difference between gross and net margins

3. Cash management
“Profit is sanity but cash is reality”. Without cash a business cannot survive for long. Effective cash management will help a business to endure.
• Why cash is not the same as profit
• Understand why cash is king
• Managing cash in a business

4. Measure the performance of the business
A successful businesses can be judged by the size of its market value. Its performance can be measured by using financial ratios.
• Understand what constitutes success
• Measure return on investment
• Analyse short term solvency and liquidity
• Analyse long term solvency and gearing
• Be aware of the drawbacks of performance measures

 

Our training style

• We interactive trainingtake an open friendly and enthusiastic approach to learning finance.
• Our aim is to make finance interesting for you as people learn more effectively when they are enjoying themselves.
• We encourage as many questions as possible and create an open atmosphere to personalise the experience.
• We want you to ask the questions about finance that you’ve always wanted to ask.
• We’re not constrained by the course outline and welcome all questions.
 

Delegate feedback

Excellent course, presenter was enthusiastic , energetic and knew his content very well. Very inspiring and useful course.
One of the best courses I have attended
very useful engaging course. I'll be able to take a lot from today and use it personally and professionally


clarification on things not confident on invaluable to personnel finance or not
impressed style teaching examples regularly help bring theory real world
explanation of anything we did not thoroughly understand


passion to teach us
interaction on discussing solutions to the financial and management process
i found the course very enjoyable


excellent simplified terminology distinction mark up and margin
excellent venue ideal course very good great experience
instructive made a difficult course enjoyable


I would recommend to others

Cost

• Training course at a Central London venue.
• Next course date: Friday 2nd March 2012, Central London, UK.
• Including lunch and jargon buster.
• Places limited to ensure participant interaction and ability to ask question.
• Full price £497 (excl VAT)
• Early booking discount £297 (excl VAT) if booked before close of business on .

Please note places are limited to 10 delegates so please book now to avoid disappointment

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