Finance

Finance for Non-Financial Managers: Reading, Understanding and Analysing Reports and Key Ratios.

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This course aims to give you who have some financial responsibility knowledge of the basics of business economics and an understanding of financial relationships. You will learn the most important financial concepts and how to read and analyse key ratios, financial reports, annual reports and income statements and balance sheets. We also go through how to create budgets and common calculations. The course makes you better at discussing finance and conveying financial messages.

Format: On site
Language: Swedish
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About the course.

This course aims to give you who have some financial responsibility knowledge of the basics of business economics and an understanding of financial relationships. You will learn the most important financial concepts and how to read and analyse key ratios, financial reports, annual reports and income statements and balance sheets. We also go through how to create budgets and common calculations. The course makes you better at discussing finance and conveying financial messages.

Today almost every employee is affected by the company's finances in one way or another. It can be anything from understanding the management team's decisions to the ongoing bookkeeping of daily transactions or discussions with customers and suppliers. This course gives you the basics of the financial language and an understanding of how the company's finances work.

What you will learn

What you learn.

  • Gain knowledge of the basics of finance
  • Gain knowledge of financial terms and concepts
  • Gain an understanding of financial relationships
  • Learn to read and analyse key ratios, financial reports and income statements and balance sheets
  • Gain an understanding of how to make smart calculations and budgets
  • Learn how to present and convey financial messages
  • Speak the financial language and take a more active part in business finance discussions
Curriculum

How the course is built.

  1. Basic business economics concepts and relationships

    Basic business economics concepts and their meaning, for example revenue, costs, profit, assets, liabilities, equity and cash flow Why accruals are used The relationship between profit, liquidity and profitability

  2. Annual report and year-end accounts

    The income statement and balance sheet and their different items Together we read some year-end accounts and you learn to analyse them Gross margin, profit margin, equity ratio, return and quick ratio

  3. Budget

    How to create a budget effectively Differences between a profit budget and a cash budget

  4. Common financial calculations

    How to make a calculation and present it credibly The most common product and project calculations Full cost calculation and contribution margin Break-even analysis

  5. Presenting and communicating finance

    How to present and communicate finance in a clear and understandable way

Target audience

Who is this for?

You in the private sector who have some financial responsibility but lack financial training or need an update, for example as a manager, project manager, salesperson, coordinator, engineer, marketer, communicator or other specialist.

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