Financial Management and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
OVERVIEW
In today’s business world, your success and effectiveness may well depend on how well you can handle “the numbers.” Having basic skills in finance and accounting will positively affect all parts of your job including managing people, setting short- and long-term objectives and controlling costs. Without a doubt, the ability to understand and speak this “universal language of business” is a skill no manager can afford to
be without.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Gain confidence and increase your comfort level in working with financial facts and figures
• Understand accrual vs. cash accounting
• Understand financial statements and how they tie to one another
• Interpret the most common financial reports
• Analyze statements using ratios
• Describe how the budgeting process works
• Identify the items necessary to monitor performance