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Financial Bootcamp for Non-Financial Professionals

Developing Your Skills in Dealing with Financial Information

Course Schedules

London

13-17 Jan 2025

$5,950

Dubai

28 Jul-01 Aug 2025

$5,950

London

27-31 Oct 2025

$5,950

Training course overview

Financial information is crucial for business managers to perform their roles effectively and confidently. Originating from the organization’s accounting system, it provides a comprehensive view of past events while serving as a valuable database for forecasting future outcomes, preparing budgets, setting targets, and maintaining operational control. Additionally, it allows for measuring comparative performance and profitability.

This training course is designed to equip managers with the skills necessary to understand, interpret, and utilize financial information. Participants will learn how to apply this knowledge in planning, controlling, and making informed decisions that add value to their organization.

What are the goals?

By attending this Coventry Academy training course, you should achieve these goals:

Understanding How Financial Statements are Prepared, and What They Mean
How to Analyse and Interpret Annual Financial Statements
How Cost Analysis Helps us With Control, Resource Allocation, and Pricing
Appreciation of the Importance of Budgets, and How They are Prepared
Awareness of How Our Company is Financed, and What is the Annual Cost
The Ability to Use a Variety of Techniques to Evaluate New Investment Proposals
How to Recognize and Manage Financial Risks, Using a Range of Techniques

Who is this training course for?

This Coventry Academy training course is designed for those non-financial staff who wish to gain a better understanding of how finance supports all of the operations and activities of their business. For example this would include Managers and Supervisors in:

Sales and Marketing
Logistics and Supply
Human Resource
Production and Engineering
Risk Management and Internal Audit

Course Outline

Day One: The Nature and Purpose of Accounting and Finance

Why is accounting and finance necessary?
The role and structure of the Finance Function
Basic principles of financial accounting
Teamwork Exercise: Recording business transactions
Teamwork Exercise: Applying financial judgement in accounting reporting
Teamwork Exercise: Preparing simple financial statements

Day Two: Understanding the Financial Statements

The format and structure of the Income Statement and the Balance Sheet
Why cash flow is important
Teamwork Exercise: Preparing a Cash Flow Statement
Published financial reports – format and content
Techniques for interpreting financial reports
Teamwork exercise and presentation: Using ratios to assess a company’s performance

Day Three: Using Financial Information for Control and Decision-Making