Certificate in Finance Essentials

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, 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 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 implication
• Explore how risk influences investment decisions, and calculate risk and rates of return
• Learn investing comments such as 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

Who Should Enroll?

• Adult learners who want to learn the essentials of finance for the non-financial manager.