Financial Literacy for Non-Finance Managers

Senior executives in any organisation are expected to correlate their actions and decisions with the ultimate objective of contributing to the shareholders wealth. In other words, the outcome of their efforts should be construed as a value creator rather than a value destroyer in the future. Hence, it is obvious that the entire process of management decision making can never be isolated from this primary goal. Haven't there been occasions in your career when, you wanted to interact better with your colleagues in the finance department? Haven't there been instances when, you felt that you needed to understand their line of thinking? Don't you think that, you must become more comfortable and equipped to understand the financials in their correct perspective? Yes-you must have surely felt the need to understand financial and the bottom line implications of your decisions, not to mention the decisions taken by the top management of your organisation.

Objectives

The programme will enable participants to feel more confident when dealing with financial issues both within and outside of the organization, to ask the right financial questions in making business decisions and to makes better assess the business implications of those answers.

The programme will give managers a clear understanding of accounting and business finance and up-to-date review of business practices.

On completion of the program, participants should be able to:

• Explain basic financial terms and concepts
• Calculate key financial ratios
• Appreciate the complexities of finance in business decision making
• Discuss financial issues more confidently with financial staff
• Make more informed business choices using financial tools

Program Duration & Certification

3 days (21 hours) from 9 am to 5 pm; inclusive of daily 1 hr lunches and 2 tea breaks. A Certificate of Participation will be awarded upon completion of the course.

Programme Content

• Understanding financial statements
• Interpreting financial statements
• Creative accounting
• Cash flow and fund flow analysis
• Cost volume and profit analysis \ Standard costing (concepts and application)
• Budgetary controls
• Activity based costing
• Capital structuring decisions
• Cost of capital and dividend policies
• Corporate CAPEX decisions
• Working capital management
• Valuation of firms
• Economic value added
• Corporate restructuring

Target Audience

This workshop assumes that the participants do not have any financial back ground but have a basic understanding of financial terms and also understand basic financial items found in P&L statement and annual reports.

Methodology

Exercises, discussions and relevant industry case studies will be used, where possible. On completion of the workshop, an assessment exercise will used to assess learning.

Every attempt will be made to explain each topic in context of relevant business and to ensure that they have a basic working knowledge of what these terms mean, how they are applied and its business implications.