Finance team reviewing performance and investment dashboards in a Gulf office
- Status
- Principal course
- Subject
- Accounting
- Level
- Advanced
- Duration
- 45 guided learning hours — typically eight days intensive or ten weeks part time
- Delivery
- Live online, or on site for groups
- Options
- Individual, group or corporate
- Certificate
- Certificate of Completion · eligible for the academic pathway
- Availability
- Worldwide — Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, or in the UK
- Study options
- Online from your own country, or in person in the UK
- Course fee
- Quoted on request
Course overview
Financial management is where the finance function stops reporting and starts deciding. This programme covers the questions a finance lead is expected to answer: whether an investment is worth making, how much working capital the business actually needs, where funding should come from and at what cost, and how currency and interest rate exposure should be handled. It is taught through decision cases rather than formulas alone, because the calculation is rarely the hard part — defending the assumption behind it is.
Who this course is for
- Finance managers and financial controllers
- Accountants moving into a commercial or decision-making role
- Business owners weighing an investment or a funding decision
- Candidates preparing for professional financial management papers
- Finance staff supporting a treasury or investment function
Learning objectives
By the end of the programme learners will be able to:
- Appraise an investment using payback, net present value and internal rate of return
- Calculate and manage the working capital cycle
- Evaluate sources of finance and estimate the cost of capital
- Identify and manage currency and interest rate exposure
- Build a financial case that survives challenge from a board