Program Overview

This certificate provides non-financial managers with the essential knowledge and skills of finance. Students will become familiar with critical financial terminology, and learn how to calculate key financial management indicators. Students will learn how to assess their organization's financial health by reviewing balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flow, and discover how finance and accounting tools can be used to support informed decision-making within organizations.

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Learners must achieve an average test score of at least 70% to meet the minimum successful completion requirement and qualify to receive CEUs.

At a Glance

Extended Education
Approximately 19 hours
Up to 12 months to complete coursework
1.9 CEUs
Strategic & Business Management 13 PDUs | Tech PM 5.75 PDUs | 19 SHRM credits | HRCI credits 19 (Specified - Strat Bus)
$399
No additional materials required

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As a student, you will:

  • Learn the fundamentals and importance of the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows, and how they can be used to manage a business
  • Understand the basics of finance
  • Understand the responsibilities of financial managers, the roles of finance in a typical business organization, and relevant financial markets of interest to financial manager
  • Gain an understanding of corporate financing and the stock market in its application to the business world
  • Understand statistical techniques that can help any manager responsible for marketing, management, accounting, sales, or other business functions
  • Learn about graphical representations of data that your stakeholders may expect when reviewing statistical analysis results
  • Learn finance concepts that allow the non-financial manager to consider tools for decision-making, including cost benefit analysis, break-even analysis, and Balanced Scorecard.
  • Understand basic finance concepts such as return on investment (ROI), fixed and variable costs, and payback period
  • Review the basic time value of money (TVM) techniques used in financial decisions and cash flow implications
  • Explore how risk influences investment decisions, and calculate risk and rates of return
  • Learn investing comments such as the benefits of diversification and the portfolio concept
  • Learn how organizations use master budgets, operating budgets, sales, production, cost of goods sold budgets, and cash budgets
  • Gain an understanding of the budgeting process and the different budgeting techniques to overcome operational challenges

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MindEdge Learning

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This course includes an “Ask the Expert” feature. You can use this feature to submit questions about course content. A subject-matter expert will provide guidance or point you to additional resources for the topics you’re studying. Questions are answered as quickly as possible and usually within 24 hours. 

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