Finance For Non-Financial Managers

As companies strive harder to increase bottom line profitability, it becomes more critical for key employees to have a basic understanding of financial terms and concepts. Often, non-financial professionals require financial information to make key decisions, making it vital that they know how to use these tools effectively and understand the commonly language of finance like profit and loss statements, cash flow statements, and opportunity costs.

The Mini-MBA Workshop is ideal for non-financial managers and executives who need to improve their knowledge of finance and accounting, as well as professionals who have some background in business acumen, but are looking for a refresher course to sharpen their skills and expand on their current knowledge. A wide variety of adult learning methods will be applied to help participants grow and renew their excitement about using business concepts to increase profitability and measure success. The workshop curriculum, developed at Columbia University, is customized to the participant’s industry using relevant examples and case studies.

Participants Will Learn To:

Speak the language of finance, accounting, marketing, and economics and strategy.
Improve communication and build stronger working relationships between finance and non-finance departments.
Use and understand financial analysis to make better short and long term decisions
Create a positive impact on the organization’s bottom line.

How the Workshop is Offered:

The Mini-MBA Workshop is offered in a customize format where client’s choose the content to be covered from a list of business acumen topics, or in a standard three day format covering the following topics and more:

Core Mini-MBA segments

Finance

Balance Sheet
Income Statement
Profitability Ratios
Liquidity Ratios
Debt Rations
Risk vs. Return
Payback Period
Leverage Principle
Time Value of Money
Net Present Value
Break-even Analysis
Internal Rate of Return

Accounting

Financial Accounting
Cost Accounting
Allocation Analysis
Direct vs. Indirect costs
Incentive Point Analysis
Contribution Margin
Cost of Capital Analysis
Risk Assessment
Cost/Benefit Analysis

Economics

Globalization
Opportunity Cost
Supply and Demand
Equilibrium Cycle
Roles of Prices & Profits
Inflation & Recession
Fiscal & Monetary Policy
Government Intervention
Ceilings, Floors, Taxes & Tariffs
Market Intervention
Economic Systems
Law of Comparative Advantage

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