Value creation and corporate finance for non-finance professionals.

Understand the financial implications of your strategic decisions, interpret corporate financial data with confidence and use financial insight to create value for your organisation.

The Financial Intelligence for Strategic Leaders programme is designed for non-financial professionals. It will provide the skills and tools you need to successfully address financial performance, evaluate business plans and use financial strategy to create long-term value.

This programme will not turn you into an accountant, but it will help you develop a deeper understanding of the financial information you use to make strategic decisions. You will learn to analyse financial data, expand your awareness of key corporate finance practices, and build your confidence to engage knowledgably with your finance teams.

Programme information – Face-to-face

  • Dates
    • 15 - 17 Jun 2027
  • Duration3 days
  • LocationCranfield campus
  • Cost£4,950 + VAT, including accommodation Concessions available

Who is this for

Senior leaders with a non-finance background:

  • C-suite and board level executives
  • Directors and senior managers
  • Heads of department or business unit
  • Partners and senior consultants
  • Senior technical experts

Programme impact

Bring corporate finance to life with practical insights for non-finance professionals.

Develop confidence in corporate financial language, strategies, initiatives, and business impacts. Learn to evaluate financial performance and interpret data to uncover insights that support strategic decision-making. Gain a deeper understanding of how your business model translates into financial results, enabling you to connect operational activities with commercial performance and long-term value creation.

For you:

  • Advanced insights into how financial strategy can help drive value in your organisation.
  • A greater ability to make knowledgeable contributions at a senior level through your understanding of financial statements and reports.
  • Insights into the practical implications of investment decisions and acquisitions.
  • Improved confidence in corporate finance with an ability to challenge financial presentations and recognise opportunities.

For your organisation:

  • A senior leader with enhanced financial literacy, able to offer meaningful contributions that encourage better strategic decisions.
  • A more knowledgeable and effective executive with a clear understanding of the organisation's financial performance, and the implications that come with it.

Programme content

 

Your experience

The three-day programme is designed to offer practical and adaptable content to address the real-world challenges you face when interpreting corporate financial data and discussing strategic decision making at a senior level.

You will benefit from the creative practices, diverse ideas, and successful methods that the programme director and your peers on the course have used to overcome challenges in a range of sectors.

You will leave fully equipped with the tools and frameworks needed to successfully improve financial performance and shareholder value in your organisation. The programme delivers best practice models to:

  • Support you in your role and increase your strategic impact.
  • Understand long-term value and how to best achieve it.
  • Recognise the cost of capital and determine appropriate capital structure.
  • Implement investment appraisal techniques.
  • Understand your organisation's valuation methods.
  • Gain advanced insights into what your organisation's accounts really tell you and what they don't disclose.

Day one – Financial statements for strategic decision-making

  • What is shareholder value and why does it matter?
  • The seven drivers of value creation.
  • What financial statements reveal about performance.
  • Interpreting the balance sheet and income statement.
  • Financial ratio analysis for decision making.
  • Linking financial statements to business strategy.

Day two – Investment, forecasting and capital

  • Making the business case.
  • Commonly used methods of investment appraisal.
  • Avoiding common pitfalls in financial forecasting.
  • Balancing risk and return in capital allocation.
  • Understanding and applying the cost of capital.
  • Linking investment, financing and business strategy.

Day three – Company valuation and corporate transactions

  • Company valuation: The income approach.
  • Company valuation: The market approach.
  • Applying valuation to corporate transactions.

Programme Director

Professor Yacine Belghitar

Concessions

Exclusive 20% discount for Cranfield School of Management Alumni who have attended one of our 2-day+ programmes. Lifelong access to Alumni Membership benefits is included in the price of this course.

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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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This course is provided by Cranfield Management Development Ltd a wholly owned subsidiary of Cranfield University