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The aim of this one-day course is to provide managers with an overview of the financial statements and tools commonly used in business. Delegates will gain awareness and a basic understanding of the way finance affects their business objectives.

Pre-course preparation: You will need to bring your laptop with you on the day and have Microsoft Excel installed.

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of using Excel spreadsheets.

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For companies who need to train groups of staff either remotely or in-person.

  • One day course
  • Up to 12 delegates
  • Flexible in-house training dates
  • Face-to-face training
  • In-house or a venue of choice
  • Virtual training option
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Finance Course Trainer Zahoor Bargir

Zahoor Bargir

Zahoor is a dynamic and engaging finance trainer known for delivering interactive, effective, and enjoyable sessions.

As a qualified accountant, he brings a wealth of experience from his roles as a consultant and manager across various sectors before focusing on training.

Drawing on his industry experience enables him to contextualise the training material. Zahoor takes a very pragmatic approach to training. Whatever your professional background, and whether you are comfortable with numbers or not, Zahoor’s courses explore the process of finance, making it easier for people to grasp the concepts.

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Full Finance for Non-Finance Managers - 1 Day Course Content

Finance Principles and Language

  • Exploring the main financial principles and how they guide finance thinking.
  • Going over the various terms and definitions of finance and to bring more clarity around the terms used.

Understanding Financial Statements

  • Identifying the main financial statements used to report financial performance.
  • How the three statements are related, what they include and why.

The Balance Sheet

  • What is being shown and at what point in time?
  • Identifying the different types of assets and liabilities that appear on a balance sheet.
  • Recognise the value of understanding a balance sheet.

The Profit and Loss Account

  • Defining income and matching expenditure for a specific period of time.
  • Exploring the various profits there are and why we have them.
  • Looking at what the profit and loss account is and is not.
  • Recognising the importance of cost and benefit and the role it plays in decision-making.

Cash Flow

  • Recognising the role and importance of cash in a business.
  • Exploring the difference between cash and profit.
  • Identifying non-cash elements of expenditure.
  • The difference between profit and cash

Accruals and Prepayments

  • When to recognise accruals and why finance keeps talking about them.
  • Exploring how prepayments differ from accruals

Different types of costs

  • Distinguish between the different types of costs on the profit and loss account.
  • Learn how to classify costs to generate the various types of profit.

Ratios

  • What they are and what they mean.
  • Going over the ratios that help with analysis and, in particular, decision-making.
  • Ratios to be explored are in the areas of: Profitability, liquidity and productivity.

Financial and management accounts

  • Breakdown of the annual statements and what is contained within them.
  • Understanding the difference between financial and management accounts and why both are important.
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