Finance for Non-Financial Leaders

By strengthening your financial knowledge and mastering the language of finance, this course will help you establish better communication channels across team.

You will:

• Increase your understanding of finance and key financial metrics
• Learn fundamental finance terms and language
• Gain practical skills for interpreting and evaluating financial data
• Develop the confidence to have insightful financial conversations, identifying the right questions to ask
• Understand the crucial and ever-increasing role of ESG performance in corporate finance decisions and their outcome

How your organisation benefits

• Assess the financial performance of your organisation and identify routes for its success
• Strengthen relationships across internal teams by improving communication channels and creating more efficient ways of working within the workplace
• Reinforce your organisation’s competitive edge by developing employee skills in effective negotiation
• Make organisationally sound investment decisions, taking into account expected cash flows and risk
• Within your organisation, increase confidence and effectiveness in making appropriate decisions on how to finance its activities

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Course topics

Whether you are a small business owner, entrepreneur, or general manager of a small, medium or large organisation, understanding the core financial activities within your workplace can increase stability and improve decision-making processes for those in non-financial positions.

This four-day course will provide you with the unique opportunity to master key corporate finance management concepts, understand the drivers and criteria of good investment decisions, and gain the skills and frameworks needed to negotiate effectively in uncertain and ever-changing business environments.

Day one:

• An introduction to discounting cash flows and how to calculate them
• Understand best practices in investment appraisal
• Explore the Net Present Value investment criterion and alternative investment criteria
• Analyse the reasons managers may make suboptimal investment decisions

Day two:

• An examination of stocks versus bonds
• Study the Miller-Modigliani theory on capital structure irrelevance
• Learn about the trade-off theory, pecking order theory and market timing theory in relation to capital structure
• Explore capital structure decisions and their shareholder value effects in practice, and how much debt your company should have

Day three:

• Examine key corporate finance theories relating to mergers and acquisitions
• Discover how to make corporate restructuring decisions that are aligned with your organisation’s vision, mission, and strategy
• Explore alternative forms of corporate restructuring including divestitures, spin-offs, strategic alliances, and joint ventures, and their effects on shareholder value

Day four:

• Analyse the relation between environment, social and governance (ESG) factors and shareholder value, and how to measure ESG activity
• Delve into the empirical evidence of ESG factors’ impact on corporate finance decisions and the outcomes of these decisions
• Take part in team presentations combining your learnings from the course

There will be a networking drinks reception on evening one where you will get to know your course colleagues. There will also be a course dinner on evening three, in an iconic Manchester venue, offering the opportunity for your class to come together with a wider cohort of short-course learners to expand your networking opportunities.

How you learn

Delivered face-to-face over four days at Alliance Manchester Business School’s Executive Education centre, this hands-on and interactive course will heighten your understanding of finance for better decision-making and leadership capabilities.

Each day of the course will involve a blend of learning-styles including theory-based sessions, practical and collaborative group discussions, case studies and short presentations by relevant industry leading guest speakers to deliver an all-encompassing overview of the role of finance within organisations.

Throughout the programme you also work on a team assignment, combining your learnings from each module, which you present to the group during the final afternoon.

We aim for several stand-out learning experiences, including:

Applied Learning A learning environment created by the course facilitator that draws on the experience and input of your course peers.

Knowledge Transfer A steady stream of feedback from participating peers with diverse business backgrounds.

Reflection A rare time-out to contemplate your own skills and development while engaging with our world-class faculty.

Network Expansion An expanding professional network drawn from your peers.

Personal Growth An expanding self-awareness of your own competencies and how they can be honed.

Behavioural Change An adoption of new rationales and mindsets that improve strategic decision making in regards to corporate finance.

The Manchester Experience An exciting and varied after-class evening programme shared with your peers in the industrial-revolution City of Manchester.

How you benefit

• Increase your understanding of finance and key financial metrics
• Learn fundamental finance terms and language
• Gain practical skills for interpreting and evaluating financial data
• Develop the confidence to have insightful financial conversations, identifying the right questions to ask
• Understand the crucial and ever-increasing role of ESG performance in corporate finance decisions and their outcome
• Become a member of the AMBS Executive Education Network and benefit from top-class speaker events, regular updates and networking opportunities with like-minded professionals
• Demonstrate your commitment to continued professional development and gain expert insights through real-world case studies and industry speakers

How your organisation benefits

• Assess the financial performance of your organisation and identify routes for its success
• Strengthen relationships across internal teams by improving communication channels and creating more efficient ways of working within the workplace
• Reinforce your organisation’s competitive edge by developing employee skills in effective negotiation
• Make organisationally sound investment decisions, taking into account expected cash flows and risk
• Within your organisation, increase confidence and effectiveness in making appropriate decisions on how to finance its activities

Course Lead

Professor Marie Dutordoir holds a Chair in Corporate Finance at Alliance Manchester Business School with key research interests in corporate securities issuance mergers and acquisitions, and corporate social responsibility.

She has published her work in a range of top journals and presented her research at high profile international conferences and for well-known companies and organisations. She also has extensive experience with developing and teaching courses on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and research methodologies, as well as teaching an award-winning course on time and energy management.

Certificate

Upon successful completion of this short business course, participants will be awarded the Manchester Professional Certificate in Finance for Non-Financial Leaders

You will also receive a digital Manchester Professional Certificate in Finance for Non-Financial Leaders from Accredible, in the form of an online certificate and badge which can be displayed on LinkedIn profiles and represents completion and participation in the course.

You can choose to curate your own curriculum by attending any four courses from our extensive portfolio. On completion of the four courses of your choice, you will be awarded the Manchester Professional Diploma in Leadership.

Whether you are from a public, private or not-for-profit organisation, finance is at the core of all businesses, so anyone with a position of responsibility should understand the fundamentals of how to spend money wisely.

Finance for Non-Financial Leaders has been designed for business executives from a broad range of disciplines, sizes and industries, this course has been built for professionals who want to strengthen their financial knowledge, establish better communication channels across teams and master the language of finance to understand how financial decisions impact everyone within a business.

Mid-senior management responsibilities

Upon successful completion of the course, you will be awarded a Manchester Professional Certificate. Paper copies of certificates will be given to you on the last day of the course. Within ten days of completing the course, you will also receive a digital certificate and digital badge to share across your social media.

The course contributes to the Manchester Professional Development Programme.

Manchester Professional Certificate

Hard copy certificate - Included