Certificate Course in Finance for non-Finance Managers

See why banking matters for managers by examining banks' safety, convenience, earning interest, and access to credit and loans.

Discover how banks create value by offering safety, convenience, earning interest, and access to credit and loans.

Explore common bank account types, savings, current/checking for businesses, recurring deposit, and fixed deposit, highlighting interest, audit trails, and when to use each.

Explore common banking terms such as repo rate, reverse repo, and reserve ratio, and learn how collateral, fixed vs floating rates, credit score, HNI, NPAs, and KYC affect loans.

Identify the meaning of accounting as identifying, measuring, and recording transactions, and compare financial, cost, and management accounting and their roles for reporting, costing, and managerial decisions.

Explore the three key activities: operating activities, investing activities, and financing activities, that drive a business's cash flows with real-world examples and a practice exercise.

Explore the four core financial statements—balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement, and the statement of changes in equity—and how they reveal assets, liabilities, equity, and cash flow.

Compare cash basis and accrual basis accounting to see how timing affects revenue, expenses, and taxes.

Explore accounting standards as a common set of principles and procedures that define the basis of financial accounting policies to ensure uniformity, including IFRS, GAAP, and country-specific practices.

Understand how a balance sheet lists assets, liabilities, and equity, including capital, and how transactions, such as cash, machinery, inventory, loans, and payables, keep assets equal to liabilities plus equity.

Explore how assets drive business value by unpacking current and non-current assets, such as cash, inventory, receivables, machinery, and intangible assets, and learn how depreciation and amortization affect balance sheets.

Define liabilities and classify them into current and non-current, detailing items like trade payables, sundry creditors, short-term borrowings, interest accrued, and deferred tax liabilities.

Understand equity as a liability to shareholders and the components of shareholders funds, including share capital issued for subscription. Learn about retained earnings, share warrants, and share application money.

Explore the income statement, or profit and loss report, and master key terms—revenue, cost of goods sold, gross profit, operating income, net income, top and bottom lines, and expenditures.

Compare single-step and multi-step income statements to see how profit emerges. Single-step offers a quick revenue minus expenses view, while multi-step reveals gross profit and operating income for deeper insight.

Understand the cash flow statement, its inflows and outflows of cash and cash equivalents. See how profits may not reflect cash and assess short term viability and bill paying ability.

Master the direct method for cash flow statements by tracing operating inflows and outflows using the income statement and balance sheet.

Learn remedies for inflation by examining monetary policy, fiscal policy, and supply-side measures. See how higher interest rates, taxes, spending cuts, and subsidies curb liquidity and inflation.

Explore the time value of money (TVM) and why taking $10,000 now beats waiting. Learn how inflation, risk, opportunity cost, and present versus future value drive this core finance concept.

Discover how financial markets mobilize savings, provide liquidity, and trade assets like shares, bonds, and currencies, with exchanges standardizing contracts and over-the-counter trades occurring directly between parties.

Explore the main types of financial markets—capital markets with stock and bond markets, money markets, commodity markets, and derivatives—along with forex and cryptocurrency examples to illustrate price dynamics.

Understand capital markets for long-term funds, including stock markets and bond markets, and distinguish primary markets (new issues, IPO, underwriting, prospectus) from secondary markets (NYSE, Nasdaq, SEC oversight).

Explore the money market, a short-term, highly liquid arena for low-risk, unsecured debt instruments like treasury bills, trade bills, commercial paper, and certificates of deposits issued by corporates and governments.

Discover how stock exchanges connect companies with capital and maintain liquidity through real-time price information. Analyze bull and bear markets, short selling, value and growth investing, and mutual funds.

Define ESOP as an employee stock option plan that grants options to acquire shares at a predetermined price on a future date, creating ownership and aligning employees with company prosperity.

Understand how ESOPs work—from plan design to grant, vesting, exercise, and sale—and how vesting and exercise price create value, with liquidity events and tax implications.