ABOUT THE COURSE
Who should attend?
Managers and executives from all sectors who input into strategic and financial planning for their organisation, including those:
- Newly appointed into a strategic planning role
- Treasury department managers who wish to increase the strategic role of the treasury function
- Financial planning practitioners who want to update their skills
- Managers who want to review their organisation’s performance
- Budget holders who want to identify trends in expenditure
- Operations managers who want to know more about how they compare with competitors
- Senior managers who require greater financial literacy skills
- Managers facing financial decisions or contribute to a wider planning process
By the end delegates will know how to:
- Go beyond the description of financial performance to calculate and interpret key information
- Interpret trends shown in each financial statement
- Comment on their own and competitor’s liquidity, efficiency and funding
- Assess the influential role of all stakeholders
- Develop a business funding policy to manage financial risk
- Evaluate the growing influence of corporate finance on strategy
- Exploit the growing strategic role in developing competitive advantage
