Finance for Non-Financial Managers

January 28 – April 7, 2008

Monday

6:00 – 8:30 p.m.

$450 + $10 registration fee

Book = $85

Total books/fees:  $545  

Finance for non-financial managers gives you tools that you can use to understand how decisions you make and the jobs you perform affect the long-term success of the organization.  

Finance is not a foreign language understood only by those who have studied it for years.  Everyone who functions in today’s society has a basic understanding of the principles of finance.  The daily transactions of comparing prices, writing checks to pay purchases, using credit cards and maintaining a bank account are all financial management activities.  

Course includes:  

• Introduction to finance
• Introduction to accounting
• Financial analysis – using ratios
• Managing operating performance
• Relating risk and return, valuation and time value of money
• Capital investment decision making
• Managing long-term assets
• Managing liabilities
• Equity and the business
• Financial planning
• Corporate governance
• Zodiak – the game of business and finance