Finance for non-financial managers
Reading the numbers, defending a budget and understanding what a manager's decisions do to the accounts.
Bought at these levels
L3 Technical L4 Supervisory L5 Senior L6 ExecutiveWhat we list, and what we do not
Reading management accounts and a board pack, budgeting and forecasting, cost and margin literacy, cash against profit, capital requests, and financial literacy for directors who must interrogate what finance puts in front of them.
Not accounting qualification training and not tax advice. This discipline exists to make non-financial people competent readers of financial information, not to make them accountants.
What companies ask for
Reading a management pack
Building and defending a budget
Cash, profit and why they differ
Three situations this gets bought for
- The manager with a budget they did not build
Accountable for a number they had no hand in setting and cannot explain when it moves. The commonest version of this booking, usually run for a whole management layer at once. - The board that cannot interrogate the pack
Directors nodding through financials they do not fully follow, which is a governance exposure as much as a skills gap. Often bought quietly, alongside the governance discipline. - The profitable company with no cash
The statements look fine and the bank account does not. Working capital literacy, and it is worth putting the operational managers in the room rather than only finance.
Who delivers this
Every practitioner and provider on the register who trains finance for non-financial managers, filtered by the level they train at, the market and how they deliver.
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