Business Acumen: Your Key to Success
This course provides professionals, managers and executives with key concepts and tools of analysis in accounting and finance that will enhance their job performance and enable them to interact comfortably and effectively with accounting and finance professionals and senior leaders.
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Take a Learning Burst from Business Acumen: Your Key to Success
Course Outline
Business Simulation
Materials
- 21 audio casts (radio show format)
- 1 Workbook (151 pages)
- Business Simulation (computer based)
Objectives
- Understand the meaning and significance of key financial indicators such as Return on Equity
- Use financial analysis to maintain fiscal discipline and to make sound business decisions
- Recognize revenue and profit potential in business opportunities
- Manage a business' overall financial performance (balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement)
Target Audience
- High potential employees who are being prepared for their first management role
- First line and middle managers
- Executives who need a refresher on business acumen
- Individual contributors who need to improve their business acumen
Length
Each Learning Burst takes about 20 minutes to complete
Price
Learning Burst Approach using audios, a workbook and a case study provides a complete, self-directed course. Organizations might also consider combining this material with a virtual class
A virtual class consists of three 60‐minute webcasts (number and length of webcasts are adjustable, depending on learner requirements). Between sessions, participants cover their assigned Learning Burst topics.