In today’s organisational and business environments it is essential that all leaders and managers at every organisational level have a professional and good understanding of financial management to effectively support their strategic and operational planning, decision making and management.

The Finance for Non-Financial Specialists course focus is on providing participants with the best practice and leading-edge financial knowledge, skills, competencies and attributes to be able to effective plan, administer and manage departmental, functional and operational finances and understand key concepts, trends, issues and challenges; with an emphasis upon practical organisational and business operational accounting and financial management.

The Finance for Non-Financial Managers webinar course is designed for business professionals and managers who are not financial specialists but require best practice financial management and accounting skills for their roles and responsibilities.

The course is suitable for both current professionals and managers who wish to refresh or upskill; as well as for potential new senior-level HR and HRBP personnel who wish to develop new skills and competencies.

By the end of this programme and course you will:

• Have enhanced pragmatic, practical, business and commercially focused financial management knowledge and skills

• Be better positioned to successfully manage departmental, functional and operational finances
• Be better positioned to contribute towards the overall commercial and business success and profitability of enterprises, organisations and businesses

• Be able to lead, build and develop best practice financial management frameworks and standards
• Be able to proactively enhance business operations, performance, productivity and profitability.

Key topics explored include:

Professional Award

Module 1 – The Organisational Business and Commercial Context and Environment

Module 2 – The Nature and Purpose of Accounting & Financial Management

Module 3 – Understanding Management / Managerial/ / Cost Accounting

Module 4 – Understanding Financial Management

Module 5 – Basic Financial Terminology

Module 6 – Understanding Auditing

Module 7 – Key Financial and Accounting Concepts and Issues

Module 8 – Markets, Competitors and Benchmarking

Module 9 – Understanding, Authoring, Using and Preparing Key Financial Documentation, Statements and Standards

Module 10 – Accounting and Financial Management Rules, Formats, Techniques and Tools

Professional Certificate

Module 11 – Understanding Key Ratios, indicators and metrics

Module 12 – Finance and Accounting Management Analysis, Planning, Reporting and Decision Making

Professional Advanced Certificate

Module 13 – Viability, Credit and Risk

Module 14 – Using Accounting and Financial Targets and Metrics in Controlling and Evaluating Performance

Module 15 – VAT and Taxes – Key Concepts and Issues

You will walk away with:

• Best practice accounting and financial management skills, competencies and attributes
• An enhanced understanding of:
  • Business, commercial and financial contexts and environments
  • Business, commercial and financial issues, challenges and trends
  • Commercial management concepts, frameworks and standards

• The confidence, knowledge, skills to be able to author, build, develop, drive and lead:
  • High impact accounting and financial management strategies
  • Enhanced accounting and financial management cultures and operations
  • Enhanced accounting and financial management and operational performance, productivity and profitability
  • Accounting and financial management transformation and change

• The techniques and tools to successfully and effectively:
  • Optimise organisational business, commercial and financial success
  • Develop and enhance performance, productivity, profitability and competitive advantage through business, commercial and financial planning and analysis
  • Enhance strategic and operational business planning and decision making through understanding the commercial and financial context and environment
  • Conduct high-impact strategic and operational business and financial planning reviews, analysis, planning and formulation

• Make a real, high-performance strategic and transformational impact on your organisation and business

• Specialist and transferable professional skills
• Enhanced career and promotion prospects
• Continuous professional development credits
• A personalised professional and leadership action plan, which in conjunction with the course, critical personal reflection and ongoing professional development will allow you to further develop and put into practice what you have learnt

• Access to our library of resources
• Either a professional award, a professional certificate or an advanced professional certificate

We strongly recommend that in preparation for this course, participants take the time to complete the pre-course work; both so that they reap the fullest rewards and benefits of the courses, and so that it can be tailored and personalised where possible to their individual requirements.

• Think about what your learning priorities and objectives are
• Think about a possible leadership topic, issue, challenge or objective you have a special interest in for discussion in coaching, supervision / tutorials
• Think about what real-world organisational strategic, transformational and resilience objectives you have
• Think about what real-world organisational and business disruption, issues and challenges you face
• Think about how you can use the current climate as a catalyst for change.

Read the suggested literature below:

• https://www.financetalking.com/wp-content/uploads/Financial-Training-Courses-Management-Brochure.pdf
• https://www.pwc.com/sg/en/academy/assets/flyer/finance-for-non-financial-professionals.pdf

The investment fee encompasses:

• Face to face contact learning via webinar, online and collaborative technology
• A minimum number of whole class contact hours per days / week / month – subject to programme and course duration selected
• Micro group sessions – depending upon participant numbers and webinar / programme / course duration
• Individual / pair / micro group supervisions / coaching / personal and operational consulting and action planning – depending upon participant numbers and webinar / programme / course duration
• Core course materials – send by email and online
• Supplementary materials – send by email and online
• Complimentary materials – materials – send by email and online
• Access to documents and resources library for the webinar / programme / course duration
• Certificate