COMMUNICATING FINANCIAL INFORMATION TO NON-FINANCIAL MANAGERS AND DIRECTORS

 

BACKGROUND 

Duration: 1 day or 2 days 

Location: on customer premises, at nearby training facility or at Canary Wharf 

Start time: 09:30 

End time: 16:30

 

DELEGATE PROFILE

Accountants, Finance Managers and Finance Directors who are required to train and/or brief non-financial staff, managers and directors. Newly appointed Managers and Directors who are non-financial specialists who need to receive and comment on financial reports for decision making. There will be an element of pre-course work for attendees.

 

EMENT COURSE

TOPICS COVERED

This course equips financial managers with skills to communicate financial information with clarity and in a ‘jargon free’ manner. Training promotes understanding and learning for more effective communication between finance experts and non-financial managers and directors. Participants will be trained in techniques to promote learning and to develop simple strategies to make financial information more readily understood by non-financial managers and directors. 

  • Communicating information according to learning styles Key elements of financial system –jargon freeFacing the facts and figuresDemystifying the numbersHandling questions and objections to interpretation Guiding non-finance persons to identify essential ‘must ask’ questions Unravelling and fixing the balance sheet jig saw Three key stages in analysing income and expenditure statements.
  • Creating a figure-busting handbook for non-financial managers and directors.

 

The course will provide attendees with techniques on how to provide greater clarity and make financial information understandable to their non-financial managers and directors.   

Attendees will leave the course with a greater understanding of how to repackage highly complex financial information in simple and succinct ways so as to increase clarity for managers and directors with very limited knowledge of financial systems. Attendees will be able to explain key financial concepts to non-financial audiences and begin creating a glossary relevant to their organisation.

 

 

 

Further details

For further details, please contact Veronica Broomes on 0845 054 2870 or email the Sales Team at sales@executivesolutions.co.uk