Course Overview

This course provides you with essential knowledge of financial issues, giving you greater confidence and strategic awareness. It enables you to interact productively with finance-based colleagues, exert a greater influence on decision-making, and manage the impact of those decisions on business results.

Course Content

• Familiarisation

• Nominal structures

• Profit and loss accounts

• Cash flows

• Balance sheet

• Key ratios

• Balance sheet movements

• Capital structure

• Cash control

• Capital versus revenue spend

• Asset management

• Leasing

• Valuing the business

• Case study

• Bringing it all together

Benefits for the individual

• A complete understanding of tax efficiencies, allowances and financial strategies designed to help you save money, aid projects and manage budgets

• The knowledge to deliver greater profitability and reduce business risk

• An ability to evaluate financial statements fully

• A comprehensive self-assessment to guarantee knowledge transfer

Benefits for the organisation

• Increased knowledge of business finance within the workforce, enabling staff to make informed decisions

• More detailed assessments of your organisation’s financial health and affairs