Accounting and Finance for Managers

Course Information

  • the date

10/11/2025

  • Duration

10 days

  • The city

Amsterdam

  • Cost
  • Type

in-house

Course details

The managers need sufficient knowledge of accounting to interpret a company’s financial statements and make key business decisions. The Accounting for Managers course describes how accounting transactions are compiled into financial statements and how information about company performance can be extracted from those statements. It also addresses decisions in such areas as sales and marketing, human resources, and acquisitions that are impacted by accounting information.

The course will teach you several tools, including target costing and constraint analysis, which can be used to improve upon business decisions. In short, this course is the ideal toolkits for understanding how accounting information can be used to drive business decisions.

The objective of this course is to teach you how to speak the language of accounting. It will not train you to become an accountant, but it will provide you with enough knowledge in understanding how accounting is done within a business. This will complement your core business skills and other talents.

عند الانتهاء من دورة المحاسبة والمالية للمديرين عبر الإنترنت، ستتعلم:

دمج المفاهيم والسياسات المالية في عملية اتخاذ القرار الإداري والميزانية

Evaluate the financial performance of companies.
التحكم في العمليات التجارية من خلال إدارة الميزانية الفعّالة
The relevance of finance to operational decision-making.
العلاقة بين التدابير التشغيلية والمالية.
لماذا يمكن أن يساعد الفهم العميق للتكلفة وسلوك التكلفة الموظفين التشغيليين.
دور التمويل في تنفيذ المشروع.
دور أصحاب المصلحة وتأثيرهم على الأداء المالي للمنظمة.
العمليات المشاركة في تحديد الأسعار.
وجهة نظر عملية لممارسات العمل المعاصرة في مجال عملك.
كيفية تنفيذ خطة عمل في مكان عملك باستخدام المعرفة والمهارات المكتسبة من خلال الدورة.

هذه الدورة التدريبية عبر الإنترنت في المحاسبة والتمويل للمديرين مثالية لـ:

المديرين الذين يرغبون في تحسين مهاراتهم التحليلية واستخدام أدوات المحاسبة والتمويل لتحقيق ميزة إدارية.
أولئك الذين يرغبون في فهم واستخدام المعرفة المحاسبية لاتخاذ القرارات التشغيلية والإدارية.

Course outline

Introduction to Accounting

  • The two forms of accounting: financial accounting and management accounting
  • The regulatory and conceptual framework
  • Qualitative characteristics of useful financial information
  • Types of business entity
  • The annual report and financial statements

Accounting Concepts and Systems

  • Statement of comprehensive income (income statement)
  • Statement of financial position (balance sheet)
  • Statement of cash flows
  • Preparing a set of financial statements
  • The income statement: cost of sales working
  • Underlying concepts: measurement rules and fundamental accounting concepts
  • Three further property, plant and equipment issues
  • Recording accounting information

Financial Analysis: Part 1

  • Financial statement analysis for investment purposes
  • Other users and their needs
  • Horizontal analysis and trend analysis
  • Vertical analysis
  • Ratio analysis
  • Weaknesses and limitations

Financial Analysis: Part 2

  • The drive for information
  • Stakeholder management
  • Corporate social responsibility reporting
  • Earnings announcements, conference calls and investor presentations
  • Media relations: press releases and newspaper coverage
  • Social media and internet bulletins

Business Planning

  • Business planning and control: the role of budgets
  • The budget-setting process
  • Basic steps of preparing a budget
  • Budgeting in different types of organisation
  • Limitations and problems with budgeting
  • Improving business planning and budgeting

Budgets and Performance Management

  • Responsibility centres
  • The controllability principle
  • Profit-related performance measurement
  • Standard costing and variance analysis
  • Performance management in investment centres
  • Non-financial performance indicators
  • The balanced scorecard
  • Performance measurement in not-for-profit organisations
  • External influences on performance

Cash Flow

  • How much cash does a business need?
  • Methods of establishing cash balances
  • Cash forecasting: the cash budget
  • Cash management: strategies for improving cash flow
  • Interpreting and analysing a cash-flow forecast

Pricing Decisions

  • The accountant’s perspective – costing and pricing
  • Absorption costing and full-cost-plus pricing
  • Marginal-cost-plus pricing
  • Activity-based costing (ABC) pricing
  • Life-cycle costing and pricing
  • The economist’s perspective
  • The marketer’s perspective
  • Combining the three perspectives: establishing an appropriate pricing strategy
  • Pricing strategies
  • Target pricing and target costing

Investment Decisions

  • Investment appraisal – the basics
  • Traditional evaluation techniques
  • Incorporating real-world complexities into investment appraisal
  • Investment appraisal within context
  • Taking a broader strategic view

Operational Decisions

  • Operational decision making
  • Cost-volume-profit analysis (CVP)
  • Relevant costing

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