Finance for Non-Financial Professionals

Financial awareness is an essential requirement for every role and at every level in organisations. The integration of all processes within businesses means that accounting and financial information and techniques must be understood and communicated by all functions, but at a level greater than the budgeting and recording of financial information.

Participants in PROCLAD Academy’s Finance for Non-Financial Professionals training course will be provided with knowledge that can be shared amongst their own colleagues, and with other departments. The awareness and understanding of the various financial techniques available will enable delegates to communicate better with financial professionals, within and external to their organisation.

The key features of PROCLAD Academy’s Finance for Non-Financial Professionals training course are:

  • Immediate use of the tools and techniques of financial analysis and financial management that will be acquired
  • Becoming better informed and using new financial skills that will help improve management decision-making
  • Communication of the various financial tools that are available to help the organisation enhance its competitive positioning and improve the all-important cash flow

The 5-day Finance & Accounting Mini-MBA

Finance is a core process/function in business that requires executive attention. Accounting is the language of business; understanding and applying this language to your business in general remains the single most valuable competence of management. Professionals need to enhance their personal competence in identifying best practices in finance and in accounting, to benchmark financial and analytical skills in a complex and changing environment.

PROCLAD Academy’s 5-day Finance & Accounting training course, based on Mini-MBA concept, focuses on world-class companies and their finance function and accounting processes to show participants which elements have achieved best practices status, enabling them to remove much of the mystique associated with the management of finance and accounting.

The key features of PROCLAD Academy’s 5-day Finance & Accounting Mini-MBA training course are:

  • Testing key assumptions of managing finance and control
  • Enhance organizational networks by developing and using best practices
  • Identify and implement best practices in finance and accounting
  • Enhance best practice financial management principles

Budgeting & Cost Control: Modern Methods for Better Decision Making

In order to make better business decisions, decision makers need to understand the fundamentals of budgeting and costing. This training course has been devised to give business decision makers a good understanding on budgets, cost controls, variances and associated analysis that will lead to better decisions being made & better results being attained.

PROCLAD Academy’s Budgeting & Cost Control: Modern Methods for Better Decision Making training course will clarify budgeting terms; clearly explain the methodology used and cover both traditional & non-traditional budgeting methods through to newer methods and approaches. We will take the same approach with all elements of costing.

The key features of PROCLAD Academy’s Budgeting & Cost Control: Modern Methods for Better Decision Making training course are:

  • Planning and Budgeting
  • Cost Control
  • Capital Budgeting
  • Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
  • Breakeven Analysis