Financial knowledge benefits everyone. Aimed at non-financial professionals, this practical programme will help supplement your knowledge quickly. Through this practical workshop, you will learn how to apply financial knowledge to your day-to-day operations, analyze the historical performance of financial reports, and forecast financial performance — ultimately acquiring tools to accelerate business performance. You will be better able to communicate the financial goals and performance of your department to parties on the outside, including financial managers — improving your understanding of financial terminology and methodology to be better able to communicate with them.

Participants will learn to:

• Understand and evaluate financial statement elements.
• Assess business performance using comparisons (ratios).
• Evaluate key business decisions.
• Organize and evaluate the performance of corporate units.
• Relate business strategy to external financial reporting.
• Evaluate capital expenditure proposals.
• Understand financial performance and capital requirements.
• Bonus: Prepare and use budgets as a management tool.
• Bonus: Measure the cost and profitability of a product or service.