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Finance Skills for Nonfinancial Managers

 

As a manager, you need to make decisions that affect the bottom line. Understand the accounting process and enhance your ability to forecast financial performance. Learn how to spot trends and study your competition with a keener eye. Become more effective in your organization by participating at a higher level in strategic planning and decision making.

  You will learn to:
  • Read and analyze financial statements
  • Present your ideas using sound financial principles
  • Make intelligent financial decisions and understand the financial impact of your ideas
  • Focus on the numbers that matter most

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Program Agenda: Topics covered
Case studies and real-world examples will be used so the participants can learn about:
• Accounting fundamentals such as debits, credits, and double-entry bookkeeping
• The accounting cycle and process
• The role of financial statements: balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows
• Understanding business events and how they impact financial statements
• Financial statement analysis
• The relationship between cost, price, and volume
• Cash flow analysis, including how to free up cash for important business needs
• Effective working capital management techniques and understanding why cash flow is king
• The value drivers and fundamental approaches to increasing the value of your company
• Budgeting as a tool for decision making, both for daily operations and large expenditures
• Break-even analysis, return on investment and net present value tools
• The importance of the time value of money
• A framework for analysis of financial expenditures (i.e. how to get the budget money you need)
• Key business ratios for optimizing financial performance
• Recognizing trends and evaluating organizational performance

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Benefits and Learning Outcomes

  • Read and analyze financial statements
  • Present your ideas using sound financial principles
  • Make intelligent financial decisions and understand the financial impact of your ideas

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This program can be applied toward the:

Notes
Program fee includes morning and afternoon refreshment, networking breaks, lunches and instructional material.

"Kathy is fantastic. This is the best class I have taken."
Reggie Newson, Director, Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation

 
  Sessions  
Mon.-Tue., Oct. 28-29
8:30am-4:00pm
Location: UWM School of Continuing Education (Click link for directions)
Instructor: Kathleen S. Villars, MBA
Fee: $895
Discount Information
CEUs: 1.4/PDUs: 14
Program No. 5050-3792
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  Related Courses  
Finance for Nonfinancials - Advanced
 
For more information, contact:
  Jan Allen, Director, Business & Management, allen3@uwm.edu, 414-227-3219, 888-947-9947
 

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"Great material, great instruction. I loved the pace and involvement of the participants."
Andre Harrison
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