Finance for Non-Financial managers
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Module 1: €2.100
Who is the programme aimed at?
Profile
This programme is designed for professionals of various types (top management, heads of SMEs and micro-businesses, managers and employees) from all sectors of the economy. It will enable you to improve your understanding of the impact your decisions will have on the financial health of your professional activity, project or company, and simultaneously raise your efficiency as a manager.
Key admissions criteria
- Proof of motivation and a professional need to take the programme
- English proficiency (language certificate or proof of studies/work experience in English)
- Master the basics of Excel
A full grasp of accounting and financial operations
The programme will help you to hone your ability to take decisions by incorporating theories of financial planning. In addition, during the project assessment phase, you will learn to identify and manage risks as well as understand their potential ramifications for financial performance.
Complete command of financial language and concepts
The FNF programme provides the perfect way to raise your communication skills with the finance heads of your organisation, enabling you to identify more rapidly the key financial investment issues to be tackled.
Financial assessment of a project and company
You will learn to incorporate your skill for identifying the components that help create value for a project based upon clear financial analysis, thereby enabling you to assess with greater accuracy projects or companies carrying such projects.
An understanding of financial stakes
The programme will enable you to develop a heightened sensitivity for budgets and financial indexes. You will also improve your understanding of the demands of managing financial targets and investment plans.
Managing financial tools
You will improve your command of financial tools and boost the financial health of your organisation by applying the best management and financial policy practices.
Active networking
The FNF programme will provide you with access to an active professional network that will also open doors to other sectors.
The choice is yours.
The Finance for Non-Finance Professionals enables you to take the modules of your choice. You can therefore customise your training in relation to your level of knowledge and requirements.
5 modules. 5 key stakes.
The Finance for Non-Finance Professionals programme is delivered over October-March and is split into 5 modules lasting 2-3 days each. The programme provides a blend of theory and practice, via case studies analysed individually and in a group set-up.
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6-7-8 February 2020
24-25 April 2020
15-16 May 2020
12-13 June 2020
Content
- The fiscal record, accounts and cash flow table
- The working capital, working capital requirements and net liquidity balance
- Critical analysis of commonly-used ratios
Financial planning and cash-flow statements
- Assessing cash flow statements
Conducting financial analysis
- Why may a profitable project from an accounting perspective be cost-ineffective from a financial perspective?
Objectives
Understand, analyse and appreciate the value created by a project deploying the maximum amount of available information, regarding the investments to be made.
Content
- Understand the basis of valuation of financial assets, projects and companies
- Understanding investment decision rules and criteria (payback, internal rate of return, net present value etc.)
- Understanding and avoiding traditional investment decision mistakes
- Selecting among different financing proposals: how best to use investment decision rules and criteria
- Choosing among different project opportunities when faced with constraints on financial resources
- Understanding what your minimum return should be, either for your company projects or personal investment.
Content
- Evaluating the financing requirements and impact of a financing structure
- Understanding and valuating the fiscal benefits of various types of financing
- Developing your awareness of typical mistakes made during company valuation
- Explore decision-making, especially within the contexts of investment, product portfolio outsourcing and price setting.
- Review the tools generally made available to managers by their finance department.
Content
- Analysing the impact on costs of increasing or decreasing activity levels
- Estimating the value contribution of a product
- Evaluating how customer behaviour can turn profitable products into loss-makers
- Analysing the tools used to adequately price products and services
- Handling and differentiating between management control and budgeting procedures
Objective
A bird's eye view of the main aspects of risk management that enables decision-makers to become cognizant of its benefits to their organisation.
Content
- Understanding the scope of risk management
- Identifying the main sources, impacts and levels of risk
- Becoming familiar with fundamental tools for risk management
Risk management within a company
- Risk management as a choice (appetite for risk)
- Risk management as an integral part of running the business (risk governance):
- Identifying the key benefits of appropriate risk management in your company - Identifying the roles and responsibilities of every person inside the organisation from the risk management perspective
- Risk management as a state of mind (risk culture)
A unique approach
End-of-year certification process
Participants who have taken the entire programme have the chance to carry out an end-of-year work project in finance plan format and therefore to be awarded the Certificat d’Executive Education en Finance pour Non-Financiers. This case study will enable you to apply the knowledge acquired during the training programme and is backed up by a business plan.
Participants.
The programme is delivered in a highly interactive fashion via a very dynamic teaching style where you truly feel that you are at the real centre of a concrete and pragmatic learning experience. Light is shed upon often the most complicated economic and financial theories. As a result, I have learned to distinguish between finance accounting and incorporating the time variable into my way of doing business. I am now better prepared than I have ever been to take investment-related decisions.
The FNF programme offers the perfect balance between the theoretical concepts of finance and a pragmatic and useful approach to learning and applying them. The majority of the components presented during the training are quick and ready to use, which represents an additional and immediate professional plus to the programme.
In today's increasingly competitive economic environment, it has become imperative to make the right financial choices. I was looking for advanced, structured training that would enable me to have a clear understanding of the latest financial tools as used and recommended by the experts. I've found it!
Corine Buffoni
Class of 2016
The programme is delivered in a highly interactive fashion via a very dynamic teaching style where you truly feel that you are at the real centre of a concrete and pragmatic learning experience. Light is shed upon often the most complicated economic and financial theories. As a result, I have learned to distinguish between finance accounting and incorporating the time variable into my way of doing business. I am now better prepared than I have ever been to take investment-related decisions.
Christophe DUPUIS
Class of 2016
The FNF programme offers the perfect balance between the theoretical concepts of finance and a pragmatic and useful approach to learning and applying them. The majority of the components presented during the training are quick and ready to use, which represents an additional and immediate professional plus to the programme.
John André
Class of 2016
In today's increasingly competitive economic environment, it has become imperative to make the right financial choices. I was looking for advanced, structured training that would enable me to have a clear understanding of the latest financial tools as used and recommended by the experts. I've found it!
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Lecturers
Academic director and associate professor of finance, managing director of SAGORA
Academic Director
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CFO - Group Director of Finance, ICT & Legal Affairs & Associate Professor of Finance
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Associate Professor and Management Consultant
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CFO - Group Director of Finance, ICT & Legal Affairs & Associate Professor of Finance
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Academic director and associate professor of finance, managing director of SAGORA
Academic Director
Mathias Schmit
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