TRAINING:
FINANCE PROGRAMMES

Aims

Programme overview

This programme is designed for senior managers, often board directors, who want a step-change to their appreciation and use of financial information. It will enable you to identify opportunities for corporate improvement and improved approaches to financial management within your business.

Programme outcomes
After attending this programme you will be able to:
	Develop an understanding of the uses and limitations of the key financial statements – profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow statement
	Identify and use key financial ratios which will be useful for analysing the performance of your business
	Understand the pressures of capital markets and the implications for a business’s performance
	Understand the fundamentals of costs and the implications for pricing decisions and interpretation of product profitability
	Develop an appreciation of budgeting best practice and minimum requirements for effective management information
	Apply investment appraisal techniques to aid long-term decision making in the business
	Read and understand the financial press

Programme content – 2 days
Typical programme content will include:
	Understanding the link between your organisation’s business, capital markets and the financial accounts
	The key financial statements: profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow statements
	Interpretation of the accounts – key financial ratios and what they tell us
	Budgeting best practice
	Short term financial decisions: the nature of costs and different methods of setting a price
	Long-run decisions: payback, accounting rate of return, net present value and internal rate of return
	Application of tools to your particular business
	Understanding the financial press

Who will benefit?

Senior managers who need to understand the relationship between organisational performance, the financial accounts and capital markets.

Recommended maximum number of delegates – 12

Related programmes
Core Financial Decision Making Skills
Core Financial Interpretation Skills
Principles of Budgeting

a step-change in appreciation
and use of financial
information

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