Accounting and Finance Essentials for Training and HR Managers

Finance is sometimes described as the language of business. To be effective, managers need to be financially literate. They do not need to be experts, but need to be able to interpret figures and understand what lies behind them. The fundamentals of finance can be readily grasped in 5 days, by which time managers will be equipped to perform their own jobs better, communicate better with their accounting and finance colleagues, and contribute better to the management team.

Program Objectives

This intensive 5-days program will provide:

A thorough grounding in basic finance at a level that all managers can understand.
Practical experience of using financial data.
Tools to help you use what you’ve learnt when you’re back in the workplace.

The purpose of the program is to provide participants with a sound knowledge of the basics of finance, thereby enabling them to:

Appreciate the role and limitations of finance
Analyze their company’s performance
Control their own department more effectively
Enhance their decision making
Spot and manage their financial risks
Communicate more effectively with their finance departments

Beneficiaries

Executives, Managers and line supervisors who receive management reports but are from a non-financial background.
Recent appointees to management positions
Accounts staffs, who prepare inputs to management information systems.

Contents

The program will address many areas of finance and accounting including: