Finance for Non-Financial Managers Using Microsoft Excel
Every organisation needs to understand and work with finance - easily understand your business's finances using Microsoft Excel 2003, 2007 and 2010
Empower your staff on this exciting 2-day workshop intervention: watch them become fluent in the language of finance and business, and let them take your organisation to great new heights.
Finance is the language of business
Finance is so ingrained in our way of life, that it really is a life skill.
It is becoming a critical factor to career progress or life achievement, because all that gobble-de-gook is really important stuff, without which businesses will die or get swallowed up.
Of course financial managers are qualified to talk finance, but non-financial managers cannot survive in such a money sensitized world unless they acquire relevant financial literacy. It is needed in marketing, HR, projects, IT, small business, operations, engineering and professional practice.
Modern day decision-makers are driven by bottom-lines
Everything reduces to numbers and employees must relate to finance and financial debates, or face extinction.
Introducing Finance for Non-Financial Managers, using Excel
Do you want to make a difference and remain relevant? Then join us for this informative, two-day course. It's user-friendly, practical, relevant, and fun, - all while equiping you to talk the talk, and giving you a good grounding in the underlying principles.
We help you make sense of it all
We'll guide you from basic, personal finances all the way up to business finance. You will learn how to compile, speak the language and read financial statements. Then we'll show you how to use your knowledge to contribute to the money-making process. Yet we will still spare you from having to get tangled in a web of adding machine paper.
Please note: This course is structured around Microsoft Excel. All the activities are in Excel, including games, quizzes and practical case studies. The models we use are structured to maximize the fun of learning without bogging delegates down. However, the models will develop confidence in using Excel to format and present and use financial information.
Key benefits of attending include:
Learn the basic language of finance
Learn about the basic financial tools and what all the terminology means
Learn what drives the profits of business
Understand how to optimize profits
Grasp the balance between profitability and cash-flow
Manage your own environment more effectively
Be more relevant in your own specialization
Engage meaningfully in financial or business debates
Learn what matters in trying to defend business arguments
Command respect and authority in the context of your work
Relate more effectively with key stakeholders in business
Extend your career advancement potential.
Who should attend?
Specialist (engineers, designers, lawyers, medical specialists) and general (supervisor, production manager, foreman, leader) managers involved in decision making, people or project management, negotiations, the management of resources or any activity that requires you to influence stakeholders, customers, suppliers or decision makers.
Up-and-coming staff who have been earmarked for promotion into management.
The real world of finance and how it develops from cigarette box level
Key financial principles and definitions
An introduction to the basic financial statements used in business
Trading for profit
This introduces the workings of the Income Statement and its role in business, including ways to use the basic principles in general management applications.
Balancing the books
This module will build an understanding of the net worth of a business, how money comes into a business, how it is used to create wealth and how balances relate to the income statement. It explores the underlying foundations of all business and the role of managers in optimizing the assets and liabilities of a firm.
Cash is King
It is not enough to make profits unless profits are converted to cash, the lifeblood of business. Cash is arguably more important than profit, though the two concepts are interrelated. We will look at the Cash-Flow statement, how it relates to the other statements, and how we manage cash.
The engine room
To help consolidate your understanding we will look at some of the basic principles and concepts of accounting and how they are used in financial reporting. We will also develop a full set of simple financial statements from some basic accounting data, to help learners integrate their overall understanding.
The mechanics of profit
To cap your experience we will equip you to make high level evaluations of businesses and proposals, by exploring some basic evaluation techniques. We will also look at how profits are generated and how the components of profits are manipulated to optimize business performance. When done you will be able to talk turkey with most other managers.
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Please note that your registration for this workshop is subject to the terms and conditions as laid out here.
Front Foot Strategic Consulting has been awarded accreditation status as a provider of Education and Training in terms of the National Qualifications Framework Act, 2008.
All Front Foot Microsoft workshop presenters are Certified Microsoft Application Specialists.
Book for 2 or more delegates to attend the same workshop and we'll give you a 10% discount.
ATTEND 2 WORKSHOPS
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OUT-OF-TOWN DISCOUNT
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IN-HOUSE WORKSHOPS
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