This is a two-day instructor-led course designed for non-finance managers, focusing on essential financial concepts without requiring a financial background. Participants will learn to interpret financial statements, enhance their budgeting skills, and understand how financial management impacts business strategies. The course includes interactive sessions, practical exercises, and concludes with a participation certificate from KnowledgeHut.

1. Duration: 2 days
Format: Instructor-led classroom course
Non-Finance Managers
Description
Prerequisites
As this course is designed for Non-Finance
Managers, it does not require any nancial
qualication. However, it would be helpful if
you are familiar with Excel (preferably Excel
2007 or 2010).
Who can attend?
This course explains the essential concepts
of accounting and nance to managers who
do not have a nancial background and is
tailored to the level of delegates’ experience.
Middle level executives working in
marketing, operations, materials, human
resource and other non-nance areas of
companies, and desirous of understanding
the basics of nance will nd value from
attending this course.
Finance for
Basic knowledge of nance is essential for all professionals, even if they do not have
a direct role to play in the nance and accounting departments of the organisation.
Managers who lack the capacity to make intelligent assessments of nancial data
will nd themselves handicapped and unable to understand the impact of their
strategies on the nancial bottom-line.
KnowledgeHut’s two-day course in Finance for Non-Finance Managers cuts
through complex nancial information, explaining principles in simple terms that
can be easily comprehended by the layperson. The practical and interactive
sessions are designed to provide a thorough working knowledge of critical nancial
concepts. Learn how to interpret and assess nancial statements, and understand
how business decisions are hinged on the possible nancial impact they may have.
As global businesses today span geographies, the programme also intends to
provide an overview of international nancial management.
This course will equip you with a collection of tools and insights to enable you to
full your professional goals as well as the expectations of your companies and
investors. Having completed this course, you will be able to assimilate and analyse
nancial data, evaluate nancial risks and communicate eectively with the nancial
team. Improve your planning and budgeting skills, sharpen your business acumen;
and learn to make the right money-related decisions that notch up your business
numbers!
Course Structure
Day 1
• Introduction
• The business model
• Understanding key components of nancial statements
• Analysing and interpreting nancial statements
Day 2
• Working capital management and the cash cycle
• Management accounting and decision making
• Planning, budgeting and forecasting for organisations
• Capital projects
Tools and exercises will be provided so that you can practice the techniques and
strategies covered in the course. On successful completion, participants will
receive a participation certicate from KnowledgeHut.
Benets
From the Course:
By the end of the course all participants will have the following:
• An understanding of basic financial accounting terms and concepts
• A greater understanding of accounting and finance systems and the objectives of
nancial statements
• Knowledge of frameworks for applying nancial analysis to management decision
making
• An understanding of basic financial models, key financial ratios and indicators
• Basic planning and budgeting skills
• The confidence and skills to contribute to financial management within their
organisation
• An awareness of the role of finance within the larger organizational structure and
its contribution to overall business strategy
• A thorough working knowledge of critical financial principles
From the Workshop:
• 2 days Instructor-led classroom training
• Handouts and PowerPoint presentation
• Case Studies
• Participation certificate on successful completion
To nd out details of the next available workshop in your country, please visit this
link: http://www.knowledgehut.com/events
www.knowledgehut.com support@knowledgehut.com