Develop your understanding of financial principles.

For business leaders, managers and executives to drive organisational success, they must have a robust financial understanding. Finance is a crucial component that helps professionals understand how an organisation operates. This requires a commercially minded approach to participate in financial discussions and decision-making.

The Introduction to Financial Management online courses are designed to help you develop a clearer understanding of the financial management principles within business. You’ll explore different legal forms a business can take, how this affects the way business is managed, gain an understanding of how the financial market functions to enable businesses to access finance, and enhance your skills to evaluate the financial performance and important decisions within a business.

Who is this for?

All non-financial executives who have an interest in the financial management and wish to understand the role this has in business.

Course structure

Two-module option

The Bronze and Silver modules provide foundational knowledge and explore fundamental principles of the subject. You will learn independently and receive immediate access to the online learning materials.

Three-module option

After completing Bronze and Silver, the Gold module takes your learning to the next level. Comprising two days (five hours per day) of live online interactive workshops led by Cranfield faculty, the Gold module offers an opportunity to dive deeper into the subject and interpret the learning through the context of your own organisation.


Two-module option

Overview

  • DurationApproximately 10-12 hours, plus reflection activities
  • Cost£298
  • DateN/A
  • TimeN/A
  • Individual learnerYes
  • Organisational cohortsYes

Three-module option

Overview

  • DurationApproximately 20-24 hours, plus reflection activities
  • Cost£950
  • DateN/A
  • TimeN/A
  • Individual learnerNo
  • Organisational cohortsYes (minimum cohort size 10)

Programme impacts – Bronze and Silver

  • Develop a practical finance toolkit for leadership decisions.
  • Confidently read and explain numbers on three core financial statements to enable credible engagement with finance function.
  • Ability to critically assess the objectives of financial management in an organisation and understand the role of financial manager.
  • Understand performance, liquidity and financial health of an organisation using ratios.
  • Insights into the role of financial markets and how companies operate within the financial markets.
  • Make better financing and investment decisions.
  • Ability to evaluate and interpret key financial statements of a company.

Programme impacts – Gold

All of the programme impacts for Bronze and Silver, plus:

  • Interpret and discuss a company’s financial statements in real time to embed knowledge and understanding.
  • Evaluate a set of comprehensive financial ratios to effectively analyse a company’s efficiency, liquidity, and profitability.
  • Understand and apply time value of money concepts for personal and corporate financial decisions.
  • Opportunity to exchange ideas and insight with faculty and peers in relation to your organisation’s financial context.

Modules

Modules

 

Digital Badges

On completion of each module, you will be issued with a digital badge that can be displayed on your professional profiles, serving as compelling evidence of your expertise and commitment to staying at the forefront of business and management knowledge.

Programme Director

Dr Nemanja Radic

How to apply

Next steps

Our team of executive development experts will be happy to talk to you about your development needs, please email us or call +44 (0)1234 754500.

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