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Basics of Accounting & finance for Business Executives
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Basics of Accounting & finance for Business Executives

A simple & practical guide to understanding the basics of accounting & finance for non-finance people & business owners
Created byDr Funke Susan Medun
Last updated 1/2021
English
English

What you'll learn

  • Develop a good understanding of basics of accounting and finance, be able to engage practitioners, as well as use the knowledge for business decisions
  • Understand the business stages and lifecycle; and their challenges
  • Accounting methods, fundamentals and application
  • Basics of booking, methods, tools and application
  • Financial statements, structure & interpretation
  • Introduction to working capital, cycle and management
  • Understand financial ratios and application to business financials measurements for success
  • Understand the balance sheet, income statement and cash Flow Statement work and how they relate.
  • Learn about budgeting, types and methods

Course content

9 sections • 9 lectures • 2h 11m total length

  • Introduction3:49

    Learn the language of business by mastering fundamentals of accounting and finance, including the business life cycle, financial statements, working capital, and performance measures.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of the English language.
  • Basic business knowledge.
  • No prior knowledge about accounts & finance is required
  • Open and curious mind to learn

Description

When a lot of non-accounts or finance background/oriented professionals delve into the realm of finance, perceptions sometimes block their understanding.” But if you start with the basics, you’ll be able to pick it up. Most people think the language is difficult to understand/flow with and boring. The good news is that it is not difficult!


If you belong to the above category or would like to refresh your accounting and finance skills, then this course is for you! Welcome, you are in the right place. My overs 20 years experience in the financial sector, consulting, human resource and training; and great track record  has been put to solid use in putting this course together for you.


This course is designed for non-finance background people, aspiring and existing entrepreneurs, business owners, business managers and supervisors, students and everyone interested in understanding the fundamentals of accounting and finance to enable them apply in business decision making, personal or professional development. The course outlines, content and facilitation style have been carefully chosen and tailored to suit the target audience and easy to follow and understand.

Understanding the basics of finance and accounting will help:

  • as employees, you communicate better with your employer, management and colleagues; as a business person you communicate better with the business stakeholders.

  • More likely to be in control of your business and career.

The course has an introduction with the overview of the course, it has modules covering: Basics of business lifecycle,  Accounting methods & fundamentals, Basics of financial statements, structure & interpretation, Working capital & management, Financials & performance measures and the outlined course objectives. The outro at the end of the course gives a recap.


I am confident you will enjoy this course and find value.


Best regards,

Funke Medun


Who this course is for:

  • Entrepreneurs
  • Business owners and managers
  • Non-finance background executives
  • Business managers and supervisors
  • Everyone with non finance background interested in understanding accounts and finance for good decision making, personal and professional developemnt

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