What you will learn
You are already a professional in your field. Add additional finance understanding in the following areas:
About this course
Every organisation requires an effective finance function to take the lead on financial planning, financial control and financial reporting. The finance team produces meaningful information to help leaders and managers make informed decisions. This also requires decision makers to have a basic understanding of accounting and to be able to understand financial information and reports.
This course is designed to help the non-financial managers and professionals gain the necessary skills to successfully interpret, analyse and make decisions based on financial information and reports.
Key information
You are already a professional in your field. Add additional finance understanding in the following areas:
- The evolving role of the finance function
- The relationship between financial strategy and business strategy
- The role of budgeting in an organisation
- How to use financial data to make informed business decisions
- The concept of financial risk and the importance of risk management
- The importance of liquidity and why profits differs from cash
- How to appraise business unit performance
- How to interpret key financial statements
About this course
Every organisation requires an effective finance function to take the lead on financial planning, financial control and financial reporting. The finance team produces meaningful information to help leaders and managers make informed decisions. This also requires decision makers to have a basic understanding of accounting and to be able to understand financial information and reports.
This course is designed to help the non-financial managers and professionals gain the necessary skills to successfully interpret, analyse and make decisions based on financial information and reports.
Key information
- part of the Why the numbers matter, financial education series
- an introduction to finance for the non-finance manager
- self-paced interactive learning
- complete modules in any order you choose
- complete all six modules and pass the short assessment to gain your certificate and digital badge
- the short 15 question assessment has a 80% pass mark
- access to study materials for 12 months
- Produced by ACCA, the world’s most forward-thinking professional accountancy body