Open Enrollment Programs

Dates: Sept 19-21, 2012
Tuition: $3,700

Managers need both financial acumen and financial insight to succeed. Regardless of formal qualifications, talented individuals come to a point in their careers when future success depends on understanding the fundamentals of managerial accounting and financial reporting. Executives without a strong financial background can spend many frustrating hours trying to interpret financial reporting data. During this three-day financial education program, you will quickly learn the managerial and financial accounting skills and concepts needed to define and measure your company’s financial performance. Equipped with this financial knowledge, you will be able to make more informed, effective decisions within the organization.

Mid-level managers through executives who:

• Have little or no training in financial reporting and analysis
• Need a review of important, fundamental managerial and financial accounting concepts

• Learn key terms in the language of managerial accounting and financial reporting
• Equip yourself with the financial and managerial accounting knowledge to create and analyze an income statement (P&L), balance sheet, and cash flow statement
• Understand and evaluate results in financial reports and statements using ratio analysis
• Improve your knowledge of costing and how it affects product pricing
• Learn the major functions and contributions of financial and managerial accounting
• Master time value of money computations
• Understand the correct framework for evaluating financial decisions
• Learn key rules used in making strategic financial decisions
• Appreciate how to organize financial data and reporting
• Learn how Excel can make the right finance calculations for you
• Develop a mindset to help your organization make smart operating, investing and financing decisions
• Earn 2.1 CEUs (Continuing Education Units)

The Financial Analysis for Non-Financial Managers program curriculum consists of interactive lectures, class discussions, group-based cases, quizzes and Excel analyses. The goal of this seminar is to make sure each and every question you have about financial reporting and analysis gets answered. The program will focus on the following topics:

• Accounting & the Organization
• Financial Statements & the Accounting Process
• Cash Flows
• Financial Decision Making
• Time Value of Money
• Forecasting Cash Flows for Investment Decision Making
• Financial Concepts
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Case Analysis

At the end of the seminar, you will be well-equipped to evaluate your organization’s financial reporting records, interact with accounting & finance personnel, and put your hard-earned knowledge into action.

The Financial Analysis for Non-Financial Managers program is held at the Rizzo Conference Center, our world-class facility in Chapel Hill, NC. The Rizzo Conference Center is designed to foster executive development and is wired for business so that we can integrate new technologies that facilitate the learning process into our teaching methodologies.

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