Finance for Non-Financial Managers
By the end of this two-day programme, fears over financial terminology will be largely overcome and you will understand the basic principles of business finance. Most importantly, you will realise what effects your business decisions can have on the financial conditions and profitability of your company.
Course Programme
- Business and finance
- Business organisations
- Growth
- The Annual Report: financial reporting & accounts
- Accounting: what is it, who does it and why?
- Who reads financial information?
- Contents of financial statements
- Typical published financial statements
- Reading financial statements: ratio analysis
- Reading financial statements: valuing a business
- Financial Planning
- The relationship between costs and volume
- Budgets & budgeting - the plan
- Variance analysis
- Cash budgets
- Time value of money
- Capital budgeting: financial management
- Working capital management
- Capital structure: gearing
- Capital markets: equity & debt financing
- Mergers and acquisitions
This course is ideal for all managers required to be comfortable with financial issues and to use this skill as part of their responsibilities.
Please contact Irish Times Training on 01 472 7101 or email gencourses@irishtimes.com for details of forthcoming courses and to obtain registration details.



