Finance for Non Finance Training

Finance for Non Finance Training course! Join our Expert Led Training Online and On-Site Course

This Finance for Non-Finance training course will be helping non-financial professionals raise their awareness of finance and use financial information in making better business decisions.

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Online and On-Site Course

Finance for Non Finance training

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Financial statements

Understand the main components of a typical set of financial statements or annual report – Profit and Loss Account, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement. Appreciate the key underlying accounting concepts used in the preparation of financial statements

Business Analysis

Know how to interpret financial statements and analyze businesses using the 7-step approach – Perform a SWOT analysis using financial statements.

Cash Operating Cycle

Understand the cash operating cycle and what affects a company’s cash flow – Manage the cash operating cycle

Operational Budgeting

Construct a Budget
Use Budgets Efficiently
Avoid Budgeting Fallacies
Work with Different Budgeting Techniques
Integration of business decisions with the concepts Capital Budgeting, Investments, Working Capital Management, Capital Structure Decisions, and Dividend Policy

Cost Analysis, Profit Planning

Know the different categories of costs which exist and their implication on costing – Understand costing concepts, and apply them in making business decisions
Categorise Costs in a Different Way, to Make Better Business Decisions “At the Margin”
Utilize a Model That Determines Break-Even Levels of Quantity, Price, and Cost

Investment Appraisal Tools

This Finance for non finance managers course will help to understand the payback period, net present value and internal rate of return methods of project appraisal in decision-making – Understand briefly the concepts of shareholder value, gearing and the weighted average cost of capital.

Evaluating Financial Statements – Compute the Financial Ratios Used by Financial Analysts to Assess

The Liquidity of a Business
The Profitability of a Business
The Risk of a Business
Understanding the Income Statement and Balance Sheet of an organisation

The Time Value of Money

Compute a Time Value for Money
Simple Mathematics of Compound Interest and of Present Value

How the Financial Markets Value a Business?

Different Models of How the Market Values a Business
Enhance Shareholder Value in Your Organisation

Accounting and the Law

Accounting principles & policies
Terminology & Jargon

The Three Key Financial Statements

Balance Sheets: Assets; Liabilities; Net current assets, capital employed and how to interpret the information;
Profit & Loss Account, Types of profit, and Layout & use of the profit & loss account
Cash Flow Statements: Importance of cash flow and Impact of credit and credit control, Problems affecting cash flow. Dealing with Debtors and Creditors

Using Key Ratios to Analyse Accounts and to Support Investment Decisions

Return on Capital Employed (ROCE)
Current Ratios, Quick Ratios, Debtor Days, Stock Turn
Net Present Value (NPV) of cash flows and projects
Investment decisions and Return on Investment (ROI); Cost of capital
Gearing, is the level of borrowing too risky
Liquidity, could the company hit cash flow problems
Profitability, how well is the company doing

Revenue and Capital Expenditure

What are Capital and Revenue Expenditure
Phasing of capital spend and its implications for budget holders

Depreciation and Amortisation of Assets and liabilities

What is Depreciation
What is Amortisation
Goodwill; its purpose, calculation and impact

Company Acquisitions and Disposals

The valuation of target company acquisitions
The treatment of company acquisitions and disposals
The impact of acquisitions upon the financial results
The financial pitfalls relating to acquisitions and disposals
The impact of acquisitions upon the market value of the organisation

Consolidated Accounts

Their purpose and definition
Goodwill evaluation and its stated value in the accounts

Share Price and Share Valuation

The importance of Share Price/Valuation
Acquisitions as a tool to create shareholder value and move the Share Price upwards
Management of the Share Price/Valuation

Costing and the Impact of Costing Assumptions on Business Decisions

Cost types & behaviours and their Impact on decisions
Break-even and Contribution Analysis
Direct and Indirect Costs: fixed, Mixed and variable costs
How costs are determined and predicting profit
How the cost structure can affect planning and decision making
Full Costing, Marginal Costing and Activity Based Costing (ABC)

Other Financial Factors and their Influence on Decision Making

The interaction of taxation and business planning
Accounting policies as significant drivers of business decisions
The Finance for Non Finance course can be tailor made in terms of duration, level of detail, and according to company requirements.
The Finance for Non Finance course can be tailor made in terms of duration, level of detail, and according to company requirements.

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What if I miss part of the live session—will a recording be available?

This is a live expert-led Finance for Non Finance training, and we encourage full participation to make the most of the interactive format.

However, in case of unavoidable absence, participants may request limited-time access to a recorded version (if available) or receive key session highlights/materials after the training.

Please contact our team in advance for specific arrangements.

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At the end of the training course, participants will undergo a brief assessment to earn their certification.

The assessment can be completed online or on paper and consists of multiple-choice questions.

The digital or printed certificate by Consultivo academy will be issued on course completion.

This certificate includes trainee’s name, company name, course name, date of completion, expiry date and name of the approval body (Consultivo academy).

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Who should attend: This training is for Directors, Middle Management Executives and Managers or anyone who uses financial information in the course of their work across functions without any restriction to industry.

However, Consultivo Academy can design & develop this Finance for Non finance managers to suit any set of target participants as per the need of the organisation.

Learning objectives:

By raising financial awareness, participants will be better able to manage businesses’ revenues, costs, profits and cash
Participants will also be able to use their new financial knowledge to make more effective decisions.

Certificate: Successful Completion of the Finance for Non Finance Executives course earns you a Consultivo Academy Certificate, an industry-accepted & recognised safety programme based on proven best training practices.

Nationally/Internationally accepted certificates are issued by Consultivo Academy. You may also opt for a joint certificate by Consultivo Academy & ICC (Indian Chamber of Commerce).

The way forward:

An assessment of the competency improvement on Financial acumen is also suggested after a certain time interval
It is recommended that participants go through an e-learning refresher course after one year

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