Managers are responsible for leading processes and teams and making daily decisions that impact the company’s success. Decision-making is highly influenced by the organization’s financials.
This course provides you with a financial foundation to help you make sound assessments and business recommendations. Understand the accounting process and enhance your ability to project your organization’s financial performance. This course helps you to evaluate financial trends and better understand financial statements.
Need to upskill your team? We can bring this training to your organization, when and where it is convenient. For more information, visit Customized Training.
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This course can be applied to the following certificates:
Business Administration Certificate
Emerging Leaders Certificate
Project Management Certificate
Benefits and Learning Outcomes
- Explain basic finance and accounting concepts
- Identify how to analyze and interpret financial statements
- Explore the concepts of financial planning and forecasting
- Describe how to make better business decisions using financial ratio
Course Outline/Topics
- Accounting & Finance – Basic Rules of Business
- Running a business – the circulation of capital
- Building and Understanding Financial Statements
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Cash Flow Analysis
- Budgeting, Forecasting and Variance Analysis
- Making Business Investment Decisions
- Analyzing and Interpreting Financial Information
- Financial Ratios
Who Should Attend
New managers and individual contributors with responsibilities for planning, forecasting, or making business recommendations. Existing managers looking to enhance their understanding of financial concepts in order to be more effective decision makers. Entrepreneurs who need to know the financial impact of running their own businesses.
Instructor

Ann Martel is the instructor of Finance Skills for Non-Financial Professionals for The School of Continuing Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Ann is a highly regarded business leader with a passion for delivering high-energy presentations and classes on the… read more