The Financial Management Certificate
£299.99 £269.99 + VAT
Launching in May – pre-order now at the discounted rate!
Your step-by-step guide to understanding the finance function in your organisation.
Would you like to understand more about the financial data in your organisation?
Would you like to improve your finance knowledge and ensure you are able to make strategic contributions to your organisation?
Would you like to be able to analyse financial documents and use this knowledge in your day-to-day activity?
With the pandemic impacting businesses across the UK, it has never been more important to ensure you are equipped with the right skills and knowledge to drive sustainable, stable and profitable financial practices.
The Financial Management Certificate will help you to understand the essential role finance plays in organisations – looking at reporting, planning and performance – and will support strategic decision-making and effective processes.
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How will this course help you in your role?
- Feel more confident with your companies’ financial function, whatever your background
- Use your new found knowledge to help you make more rounded strategic contributions
- By deepening your understanding of your organisation, you’ll be better able to lead teams and departments to success
- Advance your career by broadening your knowledge
Who is this course for?
- Managers from a non-finance function background
- Those with an active role in the financial function in their organisation
- Small business owners wanting deeper financial understanding
- Anyone wanting to get more involved with financial management and reporting
Agenda
- Module 1:
Finanance Management and its role in your organisation
- Understanding the role of finance in businesses today
- Robust finance functions – systems, processes and controls
- Your legal requirements and regulatory responsibilities
- Understanding common terminolgy
- Module 2:
An introduction to financial Reporting
- The importance of recording and reporting
- Understanding the difference between profit and cash
- Working with external stakeholders
- Exploring the purpose of financial statements
- The basics of Excel and reporting
- Module 3:
Income statements and balance sheets
Understanding the profit and Loss statement
- Purpose and use
- Difference between P&L and Balance sheet
- Comparing different accounting periods
- Examples
Understanding Balance Sheets
- What does a balance sheet show us?
- Understanding your assets
- What are your liabilities?
- Reading a balance sheet
- Module 4:
Cash Flow Statements and business planning
- Cash as an essential organisational resource
- Understanding the Cash Flow Statement and how to use it
- Using together with income statements and balance sheets
- Cash forecasts and anticipating future cash flow problems
- The role of cash reporting in business planning
- Module 5:
Managing costs and driving efficiency
- Fixed and variable costs
- Controlling overheads
- Meeting tax deadlines
- Reducing waste and improving efficiency
- Budgeting essentials
- Module 6:
Measuring financial performance effectively
- Key performance measures
- Use of financial ratios
- Financial performance reviews
- Benchmarking and competitiveness
- Setting future targets and decision-making
- Module 7:
Financial controls and risk management
- Best practice risk management systems and processes
- Embedding robust internal financial controls
- Mitigating unknown risks and handling disruption
- Active measures to tackle fraud and better protect resources
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