This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using “MS-Excel” application.

Finance has been taking centre-stage status over the last five to ten years. What was earlier concerned a discipline too technical and esoteric to merit attention of non-finance professionals is today increasingly being embraced by professionals from fields as diverse as manufacturing, marketing, and human resources. What has led to this heightened awareness of the need to understand finance? On the one hand intense competition in product markets has forced companies to think beyond top-line revenue maximization. 

 

On the other hand, highly liquid and competitive markets for funds have forced companies to focus on providing maximum value to the providers of that scarce commodity- capital. Thus, today, companies are forced to think in terms of justifying their every action in clearly defined financial terms. Today, managerial performance assessment is more closely aligned to the objectives of maximization of the wealth of capital-providers than ever before. EVA, value-based management and such other terms are today part of the ordinary vocabulary of managers.

 

Having recognized the need for today’s manager to be far more conscious of the financial impact of his/ her actions than his/ her predecessors, this course seeks to equip the non-finance professionals with the basic set of tools and techniques from the finance discipline. 

 

Armed with these, the manager will be able to gain an insight into the exciting world of the management of the finances of a company. Starting with the objective of the firm and an understanding of the financial system, the course progressively builds up concepts and aids the participant in applying these concepts to decision situations from various non-finance functions. Finally, the course is wrapped up by looking at ways to link managerial performance assessment with the goal of wealth maximization for the providers of capital. 

 

The course participants will grasp the key connections between income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, pick-up signs of financial troubles in advance and be able to prepare a full set of financials for a start-up company.