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Who is it for?

This Finance Essentials course is for anyone with responsibility for financial performance or who requires an understanding of basic financial principles.

Description

This Finance Essentials course is designed to help you to understand the detail behind the financial jargon.

We’ll remove the mystery surrounding commercial financial information so that you can make a stronger and confident contribution to the operation of companies, departments, projects or teams.

You will be able to describe the flow of accounting information, the purpose and content of key accounting reports and understand how they are all related. You will learn about the importance of working capital and cash and the use of financial information to measure performance.

No matter what your technical background and skills, everyone needs an appreciation of the essentials of finance in the business environment. This course will give you the basic understanding of financial principles and terminology that every manager needs. The aim is to build confidence in working with accounting information as an essential management tool.

Course content

• Accounting information flows

• Profit & Loss Accounts and Balance Sheets

• Cash Flows

• Management reports

• Accounting & finance principles and practice

• Accounting terminology

• Overview of methods for measuring financial performance

• Finance basics – facilitated discussion on delegates’ choice of issues

Course duration

1 day, normally between 9:30 and 4:30

Cost

£365 (+VAT) per person on scheduled course. £1125 (+VAT) for training at your premises for a group of staff.