Solomon People Solutions

Finance for Non Finance Managers

This training course will introduce you to new skills that will help increase your performance and the support you offer your team, department and manager.

Medium of Instruction: English
Duration of the program: 16 hours

“Finance for Non Finance Managers ” is designed to help managers to equip themselves with the fundamentals of finance and accounting. Money is the language of business. The ability to understand and analyze financial data is essential for successful management. As managers move into increasingly higher positions, discussions regarding financial performance become more regular.

An understanding of both financial statements and project evaluation tools is a necessity in order to make rational decisions and contribute to discussions intelligently.

Participants return to their jobs equipped to apply the fundamentals of finance to influence business decisions, improve profits, sell new business plans, manage budgets and communicate more confidently with finance-based colleagues.

Who Should Attend this program?
Our target audience are executives who need to use and/or understand appraisal system and 360 degree feedback system for an organization. 

Introduction:

  • Understanding Financial Statements
  • Financial Control Accounting
  • Measuring Results
  • Revenue Income; Profits and Expenditure (Costs) Ratios
  • Understand the Nature and Components of Working Capital

Accounting Concepts and Ratios:

  • Preparing Financial Accounts
  • Common Terminology Used by Accountants
    • Assets
    • Liabilities
    • Valuations
  • Analyzing Financial Statements
  • Horizontal and Vertical Analysis

Balance Sheets; Profit and Loss Accounts:

  • The Benefits of Using Budgets in a Business Environment
  • Budget and Cash Flow Forecasts Preparation Process
  • Revaluation Through Appreciation
  • The Concept of Reserves
  • What is a Money Supply?
  • Analyzing Annual Accounts

Capital Investment Appraisal:

  • Techniques of Appraising Investment Projects
  • The Pros and Cons of Each Method
  • The Different Applications of These Techniques Within a Business
  • The Uncertainty Associated With These Techniques

Break-even and Costing:

  • How this Assists Managers in Making Business Decisions.
  • The Relationship Between Profit and Volume
  • The Calculation of Break-Even Points

Budgeting:

  • What is the Budgeting Process?
  • How does it Work?
  • Types of Budgeting
  • Analysis of the Different Types of Budgeting
  • Advantages and Disadvantages of the Different Types
  • Ensuring Full Management Control

Investments:

  • Important Concepts in Decision Making
  • Decision Making Using Marginal Costing
  • Understanding the Various Pricing Policies
  • Defining the Appraisal Criteria

Cost Calculations:

  • The Basic Concepts
  • The Difference Between Fixed and Variable Costs
  • Direct and Indirect Costs
  • The Concept of Direct Costing
  • Understanding the ‘Break-Even’ Analysis

Company Financing:

  • What is Equity?
  • Assets vs Liabilities
  • The Concept of:
    • Acquisitions
    • Mergers
    • Protection
    • Valuation
    • Financial Crisis Management

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    Here is what some of the previous participants of this program had to say:

    “We learnt a lot of new techniques which will help us to implement in our organisation”

    “It was brought across to us in a such a way that we have go back and implement”

    Beginning of the program:

    Each participant has to fill in a pre-training need form to ascertain their expectations that can be catered to by the facilitator.

    At the end  of the program

    Each participant has to submit a Post Training Action plan for implementation and to ascertain the Return on Investment.