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The first three chapters online, with a knowledge check after each chapter. Plus a PDF with a worksheet and cheat sheet.
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Start with lesson 1Prefer to have a trainer there with you?
The three-day Financial Management for the Non-Financial Manager course. You put your own organisation's figures on the table and spend three days working through them with a trainer alongside you.
EUR 1875,- excl. VAT
View the Financial Management for the Non-Financial Manager course All Financial management courses →You lead a team, you run a department or you head up projects, and then comes the moment when the figures go on the table. A balance sheet, a monthly report, a budget that the controller says is under pressure. You nod along, because the meeting moves on, but honestly you do not know exactly what you are looking at. That is not a lack of talent. Nobody ever explained it to you.
This free online course is the starter for our full Financial management for the non-financial manager. In the first three chapters you learn to read a balance sheet and see how an organisation is doing, to work out from a profit and loss account where the money comes from and where it goes, and to draw up, monitor and adjust your own budget. Each chapter ends with a short knowledge check, so you notice straight away whether it is sinking in.
The full course goes on to cover the cash flow statement, the annual accounts, ratios and key figures, assessing investments, the route from purchase price to selling price, legal structures, the planning and control cycle and producing a report your board can actually use. Would you like to work through those chapters with an experienced trainer alongside you, and with your own organisation's figures on the table? Then take a look at the Financial Management for the Non-Financial Manager course.
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IntroductionHow this free course is structured and what you will learn in the three chapters.
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Reading the balance sheetAssets on the left, financing on the right, why both sides are always equal and which ratios to look at first.
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Reading the profit and loss accountFrom turnover to gross profit, operating result and net profit, the difference between fixed and variable costs and the bridge back to the balance sheet.
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Budgeting and monitoring your budgetTelling the estimate, the budget and the forecast apart, assessing the variance pro rata and the four ways to make adjustments.
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Your organisation's financial playing fieldWhy financial insight pays off in your role, the basic concepts and who in the organisation is responsible for what.
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The cash flow statementWhy money in the bank is not the same as profit, the three types of cash flow and managing liquidity.
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Understanding the annual accountsThe components of a set of annual accounts, the legal framework and a reading approach that gets you to the essentials in twenty minutes.
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Ratios and key figuresCalculating liquidity, solvency and return, and comparing the outcome with your own sector.
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Assessing investmentsPayback period and present value, and how to build an investment proposal that convinces the board.
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From purchase price to selling priceCalculating cost price, setting mark-ups and working out at what turnover you cover your costs.
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Business structures and legislationLegal structures in the Netherlands, the tax and legal consequences and when each form is appropriate.
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The planning and control cycleHow planning, executing, measuring and adjusting hang together in a fixed annual rhythm, and who is accountable for what.
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Financial reporting without the noiseThe three layers of a good report, presenting to your board and the pitfalls you are better off avoiding.
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