Financial Fluency for Non-Financial Managers: Fundamentals

This seminar has been designed to transform the non-financial manager into a more effective team member who can propose, analyze and evaluate financial decisions. It does so by providing clear examples of the content, concepts and terminology of financial and managerial accounting systems. It also features our highest-rated instructor to help make your financial learning practical and enjoyable.

Featuring Schulich ExecEd’s highest-rated instructor to help make your financial learning practical and enjoyable and helps overcome the trepidation often felt by managers who have had little exposure to financials.

This seminar will be of particular benefit to those business managers who frequently use financial and accounting information in their decision-making processes, and who wish to gain a better fundamental understanding of financial systems. No previous accounting or financial background is required to benefit from this seminar, however, a very basic knowledge of accounting would be useful.

What You’ll Learn

• What to look for in a corporate report and how to analyze that information to put it to your advantage.
• How to talk to financial people in your language – and their language.
• How to evaluate both short- and long-term operating decisions using financial data.
• How control systems should work and how they actually do work.
• How to make capital budgeting and investment decisions.
• How to clarify who is responsible for what parts of an organization’s financial strategy – in order to know who to approach with your concerns.
• When to be skeptical of product/service costing methods so you can better evaluate results.
• How to support your business decisions with financial back-up.
• How to prepare operating budgets, cost budgets and capital budgets.