Finance Fundamentals for Non Finance Managers

MASTER THE SCIENCE OF RAISING, ALLOCATING, UTILIZING & DOCUMENTING FINANCIAL RESOURCES

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This is exactly what I needed. A Finance course that doesn’t overwhelm you with jargon but at the same time helps me develop the right vocabulary for effective conversations with our finance leaders

Kamlesh

Trifecta Systems

As a Product Manager I was always at a loss in the conversations with leadership teams when it came to how to evaluate investments in the business - in products or M&A. Not any more. With this course I have gained the necessary acumen to not only understand but influence the investments

Arul

Cisco Systems

What will you Learn?

Communicate & collaborate with stakeholders & business/financial leaders using the right terminology and vocabulary
Learn about fundamental finance concepts
Develop skills in interpreting financial statements
Analyze product P&L to identify trends
Apply finance concepts learned in the last term to create bottom-up financial models for businesses
Understand the basics of Enterprise Valuation, Pre & Post Money Equity valuation
Gain proficiency in designing and presenting financial data

Top skills you will learn

Understanding Financial Statements for business applications
Documenting and reading Financial statements pertaining to business activities
Analysing financial statements using relevant ratios to assess firm health
Creating and assessing cash flows to arrive at resource allocation decision

Course Curriculum

The Language of accounting
What is Capital? How does it increase?
What are the Primary Financial Statements, and what are their building blocks?s
Assets, Liabilities, Incomes & Expenses
Building a personal Balance Sheet
Building a Company Balance Sheet
What is the P&L Account?
The PL An introduction
Items in a PL statement
Format of PL Account
What happens during each transaction
A few initial entries
Some more entries
Entries for the end of the Year
Observations on Balance Sheet
Some accounting Concepts and Conventions
The key accounting concepts
Valuation of Assets shown in the Balance Sheet
Creating a template for PL and Balance Sheet
Making Accounting entries (Part-2)
Making Accounting entries (Part-3)
Additional Learning Resources

Compound Interest
Periodic Compounding
Compounding vs. Discounting
A = P*(1+r)^n and its derivations
The rule of 72
Applying the rule of 72
The impact of compounding
Arithmetic Mean vs Geometric Mean
Mean or Median which average to use

Present Values and Future Values of A Cash flow
$100 now or $110 later?
The Required Rate of Return “r”
My expectation of “r” depends on risk perception
Two Projects: A and B

Given a series of cash flows, how to add them?
Present value of an annuity
Investing in a Bond – what happens when I buy a bond?
When I sell a bond, how do people value it?
Three requirements for a DCF
Why analyzing cash flows and not profits is important?
Spreadsheet conventions for DCF problems
DCF two methods – NPV & IRR
The Capital Budgeting Process
Investment Evaluation – A few key concepts and terms
Present value of a growing perpetual annuity

A Capital Budgeting Problem – ABC ltd
Additional Learning Resources

Conclusion
Resource Library

Ideal For

Functional Managers, Product Leaders, Business Decision Makers, Product Managers

Common Scenarios to Enroll

“As technology, globalization and demographic trends continue to disrupt organizations, whole industries and indeed the working world as a whole, the role of the finance function will increasingly be brought into question. Where once its remit was predominantly that of a reporting function that focused on balancing the books, it will become a data-driven decision-center”

E&Y ‘The DNA of the CFO study

Finance Fundamentals for Non Finance Managers

MASTER THE SCIENCE OF RAISING, ALLOCATING, UTILIZING & DOCUMENTING FINANCIAL RESOURCES

Foster and hone financial expertise to manage strategic business units

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