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Accounting for Non-Accountants

If you need to build your financial acumen and would like to integrate financial information into your decision making, this course is for you. This accounting training will cover how to link financial objectives to company strategies and interpret financial data to make better decisions.

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3 Days

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Overview

This account and finance course is specifically designed to help managers, executives and board members from a non-financial background to develop their financial acumen. It will also help you to communicate and engage with others to improve business performance.

Who will benefit

People who need to better integrate financial information and outcomes into their decision making.

Content

  • Awareness of accounting basics
  • Understanding financial statements
  • Making sound decisions using financial ratios, break even analysis and net present value techniques
  • Long term business planning and the budgeting process
  • Aligning people, marketing, operational and financial strategies
  • Building a positive culture using financial information
  • An introduction to capital budgeting.

Learning Outcomes

You will learn to:

  • Set business objectives for cash, revenue, expenses, assets, liabilities and equity
  • Drive long-term financial outcomes aligned to business vision, mission and values
  • Align financial objectives to business strategies
  • Forecast the financial performance needed to bridge gaps between current reality and future desire
  • Set the direction for financial discussions within the organisation.

What past course attendees say:

"Thoroughly enjoyed this course and I feel I have gained valuable knowledge that I can apply at work."
Mike Bernarte
Fortescue
Maintenance Planner
"Extremely informative and interesting content. Great examples used to relate to learning content. Great course!"
Tanya Henn
Kwinana Early Years Services Inc.
Corporate Services Manager
Related Results

The Finance for Non-Finance Managers training course is for those who need an understanding of finance to make sound commercial decisions. You will learn how to improve budgeting processes within your team, explore tax implications of business structures and learn how to ask insightful questions about the organisation's finances.

Every manager needs to operate within a budget. During this course you will examine a variety of approaches for developing a budget and monitoring performance against an agreed business plan.

For those needing to use financial tools to support business planning, this program will explore the different finance variables that have to be taken into account when preparing predictive models for organisations or major projects. 

This course is designed for those who have had little or no exposure to accounting concepts and want to gain an introductory level of financial awareness. 

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