Leadership School

Business Acumen & Financial Intelligence

The programme helps participants understand core financial information such as P&L, balance sheet and cash flow. Then consider company strategy, competitors and share case studies and practical exercises that will enable participants to build practical action plans to complete back in their work environment post programme.

COURSE OVERVIEW​

It aims to empower participants with knowledge of how profitability is driven, how assets are used, how cash is generated and how day-to-day actions and decisions, including their own, impact success. It will provide participants with knowledge of the art of ownership thinking, the ability to look at the big picture, how the business makes money, how it stays in business and how employees contribute to the success of the business.

Duration

2 days | 8.00am - 5.00pm

Venue

HH Learning Centre – Dominic Hall

Date(s)

To be determined

WHO TO ATTEND

All staff.

INDIVIDUAL OUTCOMES

At the end of this course, participants should be able to;

  • Measure the performance of your organisation’s business, using standards that are highly correlated with value creation
  • Recognize how profitability is driven, how assets are used and how cash is generated
  • Recognize how day-to-day actions and decisions, including one’s own, impact success.
  • Demonstrate enhanced business communications skills by using the appropriate financial terminology
  • Display confidence and credibility in discussing aspects of business strategy with senior level executives
  • Analyze an organisation’s relative strengths and weaknesses and assess which are of most importance to clients
  • Integrate competitive analysis and financial metrics to improve individual business decision making
  • Examine the external environment and understand how external changes affect the group’s performance
COURSE CONTENTS

Module 1. Introduction to Business Acumen
Module 2. Understanding Business Modelling
Module 3. Determinants of Profitability
Module 4. Key Financial Indicators
Module 5: Revenues and Market Dynamics