Finance for Non-Financial Managers
Course Date: 20th March
Member Rate: €250.00
This is a highly participative two day workshop providing practical and enduring knowledge of financial statements, how they are used to assess business performance and how they are shaped by everyday business decisions and events. Put simply, participants will understand “accountant-speak”. If you understand the language, you can provide an input to the process. If you don’t – you may find yourself outside the decision-making system. This course is ideal for anyone working in business who wishes to gain a sound overall understanding of finance, owner managers and people thinking about setting up a business who have limited existing financial skills and advisers and managers in specialist disciplines who want to understand how business and finance works.
This 2 day programme will cover:
- Why it is important that everyone in business should understand finance
- The purpose and content of Financial Statements
- How business activities and decisions determine the values shown in the financial statements– and how they are not divorced from reality
- The core elements that determine business performance
- The main techniques used to assess business performance
- Cost behaviour and Break even
- Budgeting and Financial Modelling
- Business and International Finance
To book a place on this course, please CLICK HERE!
“Beyond the Basics” – MS Powerpoint 2007/2010
Course Date: 22nd March
Member Rate: €100.00
This one day programme will teach you how to produce and run professional looking slide shows. The course reviews the basics of PowerPoint to quickly run through shortcuts and speed keys, working through from text based slide content through to alternative options - inserting ClipArt, pictures, photos, diagrams, movie clips etc.
Our “Beyond the Basics” Course, costing only €100.00 includes:
- Looking at formatting a slide show, including applying PowerPoint design templates and creating your own design templates for future use;
- Learning how to run the slide show in the most professional way possible through the use of some simple keys;
- Learning the Dos and Don’ts of PowerPoint
This course is suitable for those who are already familiar with the basics of MS PowerPoint and would now like to build on that knowledge. BOOK NOW.
Introduction to Technical Writing
Course Date: 28th March
Member Rate: €130.00
Great technical writing can make a poor product usable - poor technical writing can make a great product useless. Our Introduction to Technical Writing Course is designed to help you become that great technical writer! This one day course aims to ensure that participants can make their technical documentation accurate, brief, clear, complete and, above all, useful. The emphasis is on writing to impart complex technical information to a specific target audience. Participants should be committed to delivering reports, manuals and routine communications that are accurate, concise, clear and focussed on the needs of the target audience.
The course will include:
- How to structure reports
- Basic sentence rules
- Technical writing for software
- Working with words
- Brushing up on grammar and punctuation
This new one-day course will be running on the 7th March next and is only €130.00 for Chamber members - BOOK NOW!
See our full range of courses at www.corkchamber.ie/training
Bookings can be completed through the website and enquiries should be directed to Aoife@corkchamber.ie (Training Services Administrator)
