Financial Management for Non-Financial Managers

A healthy organisation needs a management team that understands finance. This is non-negotiable. In today’s competitive global environment, a minimum of financial knowledge is highly recognised and appreciated by every company, as this simply enables you to make better business decisions.

You would like to have an overview of, and impact on, the happenings in your organisation at a higher level? In that case, you need to know how to deduce interesting information from an annual report, how to draw up a financial report, and how to establish budgets and interpret key financial figures in the blink of an eye.

Why This Programme?

What is the added value of following the programme 'Financial Management for Non-Financial Managers'?

If you join this intensive and comprehensive programme in Finance & Accounting, you'll turn theory into practice via a range of case studies so that you'll be able to claim your seat in financial discussions! You'll leave this programme with insights and skills to improve your decision-making and take on new responsibilities over time.

• Master all key concepts through the Vlerick simulation game FAST© (Finance & Accounting Simulation Tool)
• Develop confidence with calculating costs and associated costing concepts
• Comfortably apply the art of Activity Based Costing
• Analyse and draw up a financial plan with all the trimmings
• Learn the investment process and the different selection methods

Detailed Programme

The programme 'Financial Management for Non Financial Managers' consists of 3 topical components.

Part 1: Understanding Annual Reports

Module 1: Introduction to Annual Reports

• Key concepts
• FAST© simulation
• Balance sheet and profit-and-loss account
• Cash flow

Module 2: Interpretation of Balance Sheets and Profit-and-Loss Accounts, Financial analysis of the figures

• Practice-based case studies
• What are liquidity, profitability and solvency?
• What does value-added really mean?

Part 2: Mastering Costs and Budgets

Module 1: Costing Concepts

• Key concepts such as variable and fixed costs, direct and indirect costs, differential and opportunity costs
• Various techniques for cost calculations
• What is contribution?
• How to calculate actual, standardised and variable costs?

Module 2: From Full Costing to Activity Based Management

• How do you distinguish relevant from irrelevant costs and yields?
• What is Activity Based Costing (ABC)?
• How does ABC help to proactively control cost?

Module 3: Budgeting

• What is a budget?
• Why do organisations use budgets?
• How are budgets created?

Part 3: Grasping Financial Management

Module 1: Financial Management

• Introduction to the key concepts in financial management: cash flow, net working capital, payback and net present value (NPV)
• Developing and implementing a financial plan
• Managing working capital

Module 2: The Investment Process

• Front-to-end analysis of the investment process
• In-depth exploration of various selection methods: Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), etc.
• Feasibility and financing of investments and their related risks
• Assessing the profitability of investment projects