Certificate in Advanced Finance for Non-Finance Professionals

Program Overview

Managers who already understand basic financial terms often need to go further: to build a business case, challenge a budget, interpret financial statements critically and understand how their decisions create or destroy value. This programme takes non-finance professionals beyond the basics. Participants analyse financial statements and key ratios, understand cost behaviour and contribution margin, evaluate investments with NPV, IRR and payback, manage working capital, and read the financial implications of pricing, outsourcing and expansion decisions. Examples come from Gulf companies and government entities, including capital projects, service pricing and cost efficiency programmes.

Learning Outcomes

• ✓Interpret income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements to assess performance and financial health.
• ✓Calculate and explain profitability, liquidity, efficiency and leverage ratios for a business unit.
• ✓Apply cost-volume-profit and contribution margin analysis to pricing and product decisions.
• ✓Evaluate an investment proposal using NPV, IRR and payback and explain the results to stakeholders.
• ✓Identify working capital levers that improve cash flow in the participant's area.
• ✓Prepare a financially sound business case for a proposed initiative.

Target Audience

• Department heads and middle managers outside finance
• Engineers and technical managers responsible for projects
• Sales, marketing and operations managers
• Project and programme managers with budget responsibility

Detailed Program Modules

Training Methodology

Applied Project & Assessment