Finance for Non-Financial Managers
Learn critical financial fundamentals to confidently communicate with finance partners and understand how to analyze and evaluate financial decisions.
This course runs every fall and spring.
Program Details
About This Program
Mastering core financial fundamentals is essential to every role across an organization. In this fast-paced class, you will learn to analyze and evaluate financial decisions that contribute to your company’s value.
Finance for Non-Financial Managers provides professionals who have limited financial experience or education a financial perspective to empower them to operate in their organizations more effectively.Through lively discussions, case studies, and a simulation, you will develop a strong fundamental understanding of finance. You will gain a detailed understanding budgeting, cash flow, and metrics of financial health to help you make more effective business decisions regardless of your role.
Learning Outcomes
• Read, understand, and interpret financial statements
• Make decisions using capital budgeting
• Identify the business impact of changes in cash flow
• Apply value creation principles
• Understand financial metrics used by stakeholders to evaluate the health of the organization
This program is valid for 22 PDCs for the SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®.
Audience
- Executives who make or contribute to decisions with significant financial implications
- Managers with profit-and-loss responsibility in marketing, operations, human resources, engineering, or other non-financial areas
- Individuals who do not have a background in finance
- Leaders who need to refresh their finance knowledge
Key Benefits
- Read, understand and interpret financial statements
- Make decisions using capital budgeting
- Identify the business impact of changes in cash flow
- Apply value creation principles
- Understand financial metrics used by stakeholders to evaluate the health of the organization
Finance for Non-Financial Managers
The goal of the Finance for Non-Financial Managers program is to provide leaders and decision-makers who do not possess a strong grounding in finance, an understanding of how money works inside their organization and how money can be used in making decisions. This program is filled with instruction and case studies and topped off with a financial simulation to ensure participants practice their new-found knowledge.
Guest Keynote
Additional Course Details
Time Value of Money and Value-Added Financial Decision Making
Using Accounting Simulation to Understand Business Cash Flows
Introducing Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
Value-Added Cash Flow Analysis
Putting It All Together: Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
Case Study: Evaluating an IT Investment
Valuation Case Analysis
