About this course
This course equips managers and professionals without a finance background to confidently read financial statements, interpret key metrics, and make value-creating decisions. You will learn the language of finance, how money moves through a business, and how to connect strategy to numbers. We cover accounting fundamentals, cash flow and working capital, time value of money, budgeting and forecasti...
What you'll learn
- Read and interpret balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements
- Analyze cash flow and optimize working capital
- Apply time value of money concepts to valuation and decision-making
- Build simple budgets and forecasts to guide operational planning
- Differentiate fixed vs. variable costs and use cost behavior in decisions
- Evaluate investment options using capital budgeting techniques (NPV, IRR)
- Assess financing choices and implications for capital structure
- Measure performance with practical financial ratios and dashboards
- Incorporate risk, uncertainty, and governance principles into recommendations
- Link margins, growth, and capital efficiency to enterprise value
Prerequisites
No prior finance experience required; basic familiarity with spreadsheets (Excel/Google Sheets) recommended.
- Level
- Beginner· Level
- Duration
- 12 hours· Duration
- Language
- English· Language
- Modules
- 13· Modules
Skills you'll gain
- Financial statement analysis
- Cash flow management
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Time value of money
- Cost behavior analysis
- Capital budgeting
- Capital structure evaluation
- Performance measurement
- Risk assessment
- Corporate governance awareness
What you'll study
13 modules — work at your own pace.
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