Finance for Non Financial Managers

Course overview

Duration: 2 days (13 hours) 

This workshop will provide participants with a grasp of basic financial awareness, to help them to better understand the language used by accountants and how financial statements fit together.  

Training is done in a jargon-free way that is aimed building attendees’ confidence in using financial terms and concepts within their organisation. 

Competent financial management has many aspects, it is wide reaching and requires multiple skills but if participants work to become organised and effective in planning, these skills can be easily acquired.

There is a misconception that to be a good operational manager dealing with financial decisions people must be accounting or numerical geniuses. There are basic skills that attendees can easily learn that will support them in those areas. 

Objectives 

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Identify the importance of financial management and its impact
• Identify the link between financial information and decision making
• Set, manage, monitor and review budgets
• Analyse financial statements
• Demonstrate the link between the statements, budgets and decision making.