Finance for Executives
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 a postgraduate diploma in management
