It is imperative that executives assess the financial health of their organization, communicate with experts on this subject and formulate the right strategic responses.
Finance for Executives is a hands-on program designed to boost your financial literacy. It aims to develop your ability to move beyond buzzwords and financial jargon, understand the bigger picture and make more effective financial decisions:
- Develop your awareness of external financial markets and their effects on your strategy.
- Learn how to apply forensic analysis of financial statements to predict performance and measure financial stress
- Expand your understanding of the valuation framework for investment decisions
- Explore common mistakes and fallacies in financial decision making
This program is delivered in English. The German language equivalent to this program is Finanzen für Executives.
Key facts
Your profile
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You are a senior or mid-level managers from non-financial backgrounds
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You are interested in gaining a better understanding of financial principles.
Program Highlights
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Cut through the complexity – learn the real tangible meanings behind financial jargon
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Gaining a deeper understanding of profit-and-loss accounts, balance sheets, and cash flow
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Learning to identify relevant costs and revenues
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Explore the best ways to communicate financial goals to others
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Building a network of global contacts
Topics
- The effect of external financial markets on your management decisions
- The relationships between revenue and costs, how return on capital employed (ROCE) is built from these two components, and how profit differs from cash
- How forensic analysis of financial statements can help you understand and predict performance and financial stress
- The basic valuation framework surrounding investment decisions; measuring the consequences of time adjustment, amounts of relevant cash flow, and risks
- Learn how to manage working capital more efficiently
- Valuating a company whether buying, selling or bringing to the stock exchange
- How to assess investment opportunities and identify the most important numbers for doing so
- How financial statements can offer insights that can be used to formulate strategic responses
Why ESMT?
- ESMT Berlin is consistently ranked as one of the best business schools in Europe for executive education
- Combine theory with hands-on experiences to help put new ideas into practice and develop your leadership skills
- Expand your network and learn from the experiences of your peers
- This program can be taken as part of the ESMT Postgraduate Diploma in Management
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Finance for Executives
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Jörg Rocholl
Maximilian Müller
Interactive lectures with real-life examples across industries. Another outstanding ESMT training!
This program helped me to build up essential knowledge about finance and accounting, and to be able to make even more fact-based decisions in transformation programs.
A very good balance between information, edutainment and group exercises.
Excellent training program conducted by highly skilled business professionals.
Earn Your Postgraduate Diploma
This program can be taken as part of the Postgraduate Diploma in Management curriculum.
Need more information?
Contact our program advisors:
- Fill out our Request Information form
- Phone: +49 30 21231 1490
- Email: bd@esmt.org
