Finance for Non-Finance: Corporate Leaders

Fluency in the language of finance empowers leaders to make smarter decisions, strengthen business plans, and broaden their influence across the organization. This program delivers practical tools and strategies in corporate finance that are critical for professionals across all functional areas – equipping you to drive profitability and sustainable growth.

Through a comprehensive exploration of financial resource flows, capital markets, and management systems, this training positions you to contribute more meaningfully to your organization’s financial health. By examining corporate finance from both internal and external perspectives, you’ll gain actionable skills to apply strategic financial analysis, set effective performance targets and incentive structures, and make more informed decisions.

You’ll learn to evaluate your department’s financial performance – including growth, profitability, investment potential, and debt exposure – using financial metrics while also applying strategic judgment beyond the numbers.

Who Should Attend?

This course is ideal for non financial leaders, department heads, and functional managers who seek to enhance their financial acumen and contribute more effectively to high-level business decisions.

By the end of this program, you’ll be better equipped to align financial insights with strategic objectives – and confidently guide your team and organization toward stronger financial outcomes.

Agenda

Module One –  Understanding Financial Statements: Driving Performance and Controlling Costs

  • Demystifying different profit measures (e.g., EBITDA) and their strategic relevance
  • Managing the balance between growth, profitability, and control throughout business cycles
  • Distinguishing between profit and cash – and why both matter

Module Two – Uncovering Insights: What Financial Statements Really Reveal

  • Identifying hidden messages in financial data
  • Interpreting key indicators like margins and markups – when and how to use them
  • Evaluating financial models and projections to understand the broader financial picture

Lunch Break

Module Three – Strategic Decision-Making: Forecasting and Risk Control

  • Enhancing confidence in decision-making through scenario planning and “what-if” analyses
  • Evaluating customer, product, and service profitability with precision
  • Implementing effective financial risk management and control systems
  • Understanding break-even analysis to guide balanced decisions

Module Four – Project Evaluation: NPV and Beyond

  • Assessing project investment viability using Net Present Value (NPV) and recognizing its limitations
  • Strengthening collaboration with senior leadership by speaking the language of finance
  • Engaging in high-level conversations with finance professionals and asking the right strategic questions