Finance for Non-Finance Executives 2021 | London Business School | 14 March 2021 | Live Virtual

Gain practical finance skills. Become financially fluent, mastering key aspects of accounting and corporate finance in just one week.

Good for you:

• Become proficient in financial language and terminology – communicate knowledgably and with confidence at all levels.
• Gain a strong grasp of best practice corporate financial management, grounded within the context of your everyday decisions.
• Develop the skills to prepare budgets and forecasts for operations and develop models that answer short-run 'what-if' questions.
• Discover how to analyse and benchmark your company’s financial performance.
• Use discounted cash-flow principles and net present value (NPV) techniques to perform successful project appraisals.
• Make informed, valuable contributions to board-level discussions with new expertise and a deeper understanding of financial reports.
• Develop the critical finance skills to accurately identify future problems – and successfully exploit new opportunities.

Good for your organisation:

• Gain an executive who can:
• Make effective decisions, backed up with a clear understanding of the implications for your company’s financial performance and value.
• Use activity analysis to manage product and customer costs.
• Understand the relationship between risk and return.
• Make better operational decisions based on the factors affecting performance and shareholder value.

Who attend?

This programme is suitable for senior managers with little or no prior financial knowledge, who need to use financial information in appraisals and decision-making. Attendees include:
• CEOs.
• Managing directors.
• Senior managers responsible for business units or for delivering company growth and shareholder value.

What you learn?

Improve your analytical perspective and change the way you look at financial data. Focus on three key themes of financial management:
• Interpret company accounts – decipher them and discover what balance sheets and income statements reveal about your company’s performance.
• Use accounting for management decisions – make confident decisions about your organisation’s future, exploring financial performance, customer profitability, product and service costs, and project appraisals.
• Analyse shareholder value – give your strategic decision-making a boost, exploring company valuation, risk and return, and performance measures.