Finance for Non-Financial Managers
Course Dates: 20th & 27th March
Member Rate: €250.00
This highly participative two-day workshop provides 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 be able to 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 process. This course is ideal for anyone working in business who wishes to gain a sound overall understanding of finance, those who have limited existing financial skills and advisers and managers in specialist disciplines who want to understand how business and finance works.
This course includes:-
- 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.
The course is highly interactive and uses blended learning to deliver enjoyable effective learning situations. Participants ‘learn by doing’ so as to embed the knowledge for the long term. BOOK HERE!
MS Powerpoint - “Beyond the Basics” - 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.
The course includes:
- The Do’s and Don’ts of PowerPoint
- Working with slides
- Formatting the Presentation
- Logos/Clipart/Pictures
- Working with Charts
- Diagrams
- Drawing Tools
- Multimedia
- Adding the Finishing Touches
- Creating a Slide Show
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!
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)
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