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Financial Management for Managers

A practical professional programme focused on financial management for managers, designed to strengthen financial capability, analytical judgement and organisational performance.

Type
Professional
Level
Intermediate
Duration
5 days
Delivery
In person, Live online, In-house
Languages
English, Arabic

Financial Management for Managers gives non-financial and general managers the financial understanding required to participate confidently in planning, budgeting and business decision-making.

The programme explains financial statements, profitability, cash flow, working capital, budgeting, investment decisions and key financial indicators in management-oriented language.

Participants develop the ability to ask better financial questions, evaluate the financial implications of operational decisions and communicate more effectively with finance teams.

Objectives

  • Build practical financial literacy for management roles.

  • Understand the principal financial statements and their relationships.

  • Evaluate profitability, cash flow and working capital.

  • Use budgets and financial indicators to support management decisions.

  • Assess the financial implications of operational and investment choices.

Learning outcomes

  • Interpret basic financial statements from a managerial perspective.

  • Distinguish profit from cash flow.

  • Analyse key financial ratios and performance indicators.

  • Evaluate budgets and financial variances.

  • Apply basic financial reasoning to business decisions.

Who it is for

  • Non-financial managers.

  • Department heads.

  • Project and programme managers.

  • Operational managers.

  • Professionals moving into broader management responsibilities.

Programme modules

1. Finance for Management
  • Role of finance

  • Financial terminology

  • Management and financial responsibility

  • Understanding financial information

2. Reading Financial Statements
  • Income statement

  • Statement of financial position

  • Cash flow information

  • Connections between statements

3. Profitability and Financial Performance
  • Revenue and costs

  • Margins

  • Profitability indicators

  • Financial ratios

4. Cash and Working Capital
  • Cash flow

  • Receivables

  • Inventory

  • Payables and working capital

5. Budgets and Management Control
  • Budget principles

  • Planning assumptions

  • Variance analysis

  • Corrective management action

6. Financial Decision-Making
  • Cost-benefit thinking

  • Investment considerations

  • Financial risk

  • Communicating with finance teams

Methodology

The programme translates financial concepts into practical management language using financial examples, short calculations, business scenarios and management decision exercises.

Assessment

Assessment includes financial-interpretation exercises and a final management scenario requiring participants to evaluate financial information and recommend an appropriate course of action.

Certificate

Certificate of Completion

For your organisation

This programme can be delivered for a single organisation, team or institution, and adapted to your context, participants and objectives.

Organisational delivery is scoped and priced individually, and is not booked from this page.

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