Financial Fundamentals for Non-Financial Managers: A Guide

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About This Class

Executives take for granted that you understand the fundamentals of finance. The people doing the talking presume that you speak the language, that you can read the financial statements, and that you can use basic financial tools to make decisions.

But can you? What if you’re not sure of the difference between an income statement and a balance sheet, or between profit and a positive cash flow? What if you can’t define inventory days or days sales outstanding, and you don’t know how to use those numbers to improve financial performance? If questions like these make you sweat, you’ve come to the right place.

This guide will give you the tools and confidence you need to master finance basics, as all good managers must.

You’ll learn how to:

• Speak the language of finance

• Compare your firm’s financials with rivals’

• Size up your vulnerability to industry downturns

• Shift your unit’s focus from revenues to profits

• Use financial data to defend budget requests

• Avoid running out of cash—and going out of business

• Keep costs from killing your bottom line

• Invest smartly through cost/benefit analysis

• Sell your brilliant idea with ROI

• Avoid putting too much faith in the numbers

We start with a quiz in the first module is suggested as most managers and executives score poorly on this 25-question quiz, with the majority scoring 50% or less - a score that is considered failing in most schools.

Although this quiz is not intended to measure your entire financial IQ, it will provide you with an understanding of the basic concepts that you need to learn to enhance your effectiveness as a manager. Upon completion, you will have a clearer picture of your current level of knowledge.

This Financial Foundation Course has been designed to enable greatly improve your financial intelligence .

How will this help you?

• You will increase your financial intelligence

• You make better decisions, quicker and avoid common mistakes

• You will go prepared to a job that requires basic knowledge in finance.

• You will feel more confident about the fundamentals of finance and how to apply it.

• You will be able to add this to your CV (just put it under "Professional Development", Udemy, Year of Completion).

Who is behind this course? I'm Hans Weemaes, and I love teaching people about business-related topics. I'm excited to share my knowledge with you through this course. I earned an MBA from London Business School, and creating courses is something I truly enjoy.

This course is specifically for:

• People who want to improve their knowledge of finance If you have some understand of finance, this would be an excellent starting point in terms of experience or knowledge.

• Students interested to becoming managers Managers that want to advance their career Business owners People with an open mind and a willingness to learn.

• It's not for for People who want to learn about the specific details about deep finance topics - this is a foundational level course

Don't miss out on the opportunity to improve your financial intelligence and take the first step towards mastering finance basics! Enroll in this course now and gain the confidence and skills you need to make better decisions, avoid common mistakes, and advance your career.

I am so confident in the value of this course that I offer a money-back guarantee if you're not completely satisfied.

So, what are you waiting for? Sign up today and start your journey towards financial success!

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