Understanding Business Finance

Programme Benefits
  • Understand business finance terminology
  • Communicate effectively on financial areas with customers and within the participants own organisation
  • Thoroughly appraise business situations using the relevant facts and figures
  • Confidently reach properly evaluated decisions
  • Prepare sales / cost / profitability / cash business plans, budgets and forecasts
  • Evaluate the potential implications of alternative business scenarios
  • Create powerful value propositions and business cases
  • Initiate a range of performance improvement initiatives
  • Programme Coverage
  • Principles for sustainability and success
  • ‘Boardroom’ executive priorities for performance management … the ‘fundamental equation’
  • Stock market expectations
  • Recognising the essential financial drivers of mature and newer ‘rapid growth’ businesses
  • Interpreting the financial implications of the corporate ‘S-curve’ of growth
  • Using the financial statements (Income Statement / Balance Sheet / Cash Flow Statement)
  • Financial appraisal of overall business achievement using financial KPI’s, strategic KPI’s and trend analysis
  • Profiling industry dynamics and benchmarking sector performance
  • Pricing, cost and profit management
  • Cash and ‘working capital’ management
  • Asset and resource management
  • Acquisition valuation
  • Evaluating the business case – risk and sensitivity profiling
  • Deborah Griffith