Finance and Accounting for Managers Brochure

Programme content and design The Finance and Accounting for Managers Programme is a five-day residential taking place at Cranfield School of Management. Taught by a faculty with extensive experience in business, you will benefit from the creative practices, diverse ideas, and successful methods used to overcome challenges that your peers and faculty have faced working in a range of sectors. The highly practical design of the programme content guides you through and addresses the core theories and models used in finance and accounting. You will use case studies and real life business examples that allow you to clearly understand the practical implications of financial and accounting concepts within your own organisation.

Programme details The Finance and Accounting for Managers programme understands the challenges you face when interpreting the financial fundamentals within the business context. You’ll learn: • Accounting fundamentals - how to make sense of financial reports. • Management accounting - product pricing and covering these costs. • Finance - evaluating projects and creating value. You gain state-of-the-art models to: • Understand and effectively analyse balance sheet and income statement (profit and loss). • Plan, budget and cash flow forecasting.

Fees All our executive programme fees include tuition, course materials and accommodation (where applicable). For Cranfield Alumni we offer a 25% discount on the course fee, and we also offer a discount to research club members. Please ask at time of booking.

See www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/fam for dates and fees.

Organisations that have already benefited from the Finance and Accounting for Managers Programme include:

• Cadbury Schweppes. • Greene King Plc. • Lloyds Banking Group. • Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd. • Shell International Ltd.

• Tata Steel. • Tesco Stores Ltd.

• Prepare and evaluate capital project and acquisition proposals. • Understand and manage costs, cash flow and working capital. • Analyse breakeven and contribution. • Drive, monitor and create value in organisational performance.

• Thomas Cook Group Plc. • Red Bull Company Ltd. • Waitrose Ltd.

Duration: Five days residential

Day one • Understanding the fundamentals. • Constructing an income statement, balance sheet and cash flow forecast – Part one. • Sources of financial information. Day two • Interpreting accounts. • Constructing an income statement, balance sheet and cash flow forecast – Part two.

Day three • Cost Behaviour. • Cost Analysis. • Budgeting and planning. Day four: • Investment appraisal. • Corporate Value. Day five: • Capital structure, gearing and financial strategy. • Divisional performance. • Transfer pricing.

“I felt the most valuable parts of the programme were the sessions on cash flow, balance sheets and income statements. These enabled me to interpret the ‘financial health’ of the business and also gain a good understanding of how each item is constructed.”

Daniel Leggett, Managing Director, Industrial Electrical Services (IES) Ltd

www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/fam +44 (0)1234 754500 execdev@cranfield.ac.uk

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