Finance for Non-Financial Managers

COURSE DESCRIPTION: In a highly collaborative and supportive BluPrint environment, you’ll develop a comprehensive view of shareholder value creation and the key role executives play in the process.  This course is intended for Executives who make or contribute to decisions with significant financial implications; for managers with profit-and-loss responsibility in marketing, operations, human resources, engineering and other nonfinancial areas.
 
A finance background is not required for this course.
 
To complement the lectures, you’ll spend time in working sessions with the faculty and fellow class members applying theory to practice. With a heavy emphasis on real-life cases, our program will give you 
applied practice interpreting financial reports, evaluating investments, relating valuation methods and discovering the consequences of strategic decisions on cash flow and stock price.
 
Accounting Tutorial
	
	
Identifying the purpose, types and components of financial reports
	
Examining the role of auditors and management in the preparation of annual financial reports
	
 
Interpreting Financial Reports
	
Identifying the conceptual underpinnings of corporate reporting
	
Reading and understanding corporate financial statements
	
Conducting a qualitative assessment of financial performance
 
Evaluating Investments
	
Understanding investment evaluation criteria
	
Estimating cash flows, including the consequences of product cannibalization, shared production facilities and inflation
	
Applying discounted cash-flow and multiples-based valuation methods
	
Understanding strategic acquisitions
 
Financial Decisions and Value Creation
	
Expanding your knowledge of financial markets
	
Evaluating alternative sources of capital for short- and long-term financing
	
Managing capital structure
	
Estimating the cost of capital
	
Understanding how the stock market responds to financial decisions