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Audience

• Those who want a financial course with more challenge.
• Managers seeking promotion who want the higher skills to get them there.
• Business owners and managers who need to communicate with stakeholders,

• Those who have attended Finance for Non-Financial Managers and are

Objectives

• Think about financial strategy as well as just the numbers.
• Detect and manage the way figures can be manipulated.
• Appraise and monitor business performance using key ratios.
• Perform a financial review and draft a business plan.
• Financially appraise business proposals.
• Be a bigger player in the corporate forecasting and budgeting cycle.
• Communicate at a more senior level with financial concepts.

Outline

Day 1:

• What makes a strategic thinker in finance?
• Analysing the profit and loss account and balance sheet
• Using key ratios for organisational performance
• Internal and external financial and business analysis

Day 2:

• Implementing financial strategy
• Ten steps to a successful business plan
• More effective forecasting and budgeting
• Communicating financially

• Investor and stakeholder appraisal;
• Checking the financial health of an organisation
• Measuring operational effectiveness

• For internal analysis we look at some models for business and financial

• For external analysis we explore ways in which you can appraise your market

• Cash flow forecasts, payback period and cost-benefit analysis
• Ten steps to a successful business plan
• Effective forecasting
• Negotiating the budget process with flair