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Business Finance Course: HR Business Acumen & CIMA Prep [EN]
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2,826 students
Business Finance Course: HR Business Acumen & CIMA Prep [EN]
Certified HR Business Partner | Business Acumen | Finance for HR | HR ROI | P&L for HR | CIMA | HR Strategy
Last updated 6/2026
English
What you'll learn
- Align mission, strategy, and goals with financial and performance metrics
- Build scalable and efficient business models from the ground up
- Understand core financial principles that drive company performance
- Translate strategic plans into actionable financial targets
- Map and optimize business processes to eliminate inefficiencies
- Apply goal-setting methodologies that inspire and drive execution
- Build a pyramid of business strategy from mission to day-to-day tasks
- Create clear, effective budgets and forecasts to guide decision-making
- Use balanced scorecards and KPIs to measure financial, human, and operational results
- Apply Lean and Six Sigma techniques to financial processes
- Learn how to prepare a business for scalable growth and investor interest
- Shift from efficiency-focused to innovation-driven business models
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Course content
4 sections • 13 lectures • 8h 43m total length
Requirements
- Basic understanding of how businesses operate
- Interest in improving company performance through financial efficiency
- Motivation to apply practical tools and build a business model
- Readiness to complete assignments and engage with real company scenarios
- Access to a business case or workplace context for applying concepts is a plus
Description
In today’s fast-paced business world, financial literacy is no longer just a skill for finance teams — it’s a strategic advantage for every employee. Whether you’re part of a 3-person startup or a multinational organization, understanding the financial mechanics behind your company’s goals is essential to making smarter decisions, driving efficiency, and creating real impact.
This course is designed to equip non-finance professionals with the tools and frameworks used by top CFOs to connect strategy, goals, processes, and performance into one cohesive system — a system that can be measured, managed, and improved.
Meet your lector
•Finance Director, CIMA CertPM, PhD in Economics.
•Former Finance Director of IT company "Intellias", CFO of Eleks
•Practicing trainer
•Taxation consultant
•Author of over 150 articles and 10 books on accounting, taxation, financial management
•PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, CIMA CertPM
You’ll build your own business model from scratch using a step-by-step approach across 12 engaging sessions. Each lesson builds on the last — guiding you through mission definition, strategic planning, business process design, budgeting, KPI development, and financial efficiency with Lean 6 Sigma principles. You won’t just learn concepts — you’ll apply them by building your own efficiency-driven business system.
By the end of the course, you will:
Understand the core principles of an Efficiency-Driven Business
Design strategic and operational goals linked to financial outcomes
Build a scalable business model for sustainable growth
Use KPIs to measure financial, process, people, and customer effectiveness
Apply Lean thinking to eliminate inefficiencies and boost ROI
Master financial planning and budgeting as decision-making tools
Translate mission and values into actionable financial objectives
This course is ideal for future-ready professionals who want to break silos, align teams around performance, and unlock their business’s full potential through financial insight. Don’t just work in the business — learn how to drive it forward.
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence. It ensures cutting-edge insights and the latest practices.
This course contains a promotion.
Who this course is for:
- Business owners and startup founders who want to build a scalable, efficient financial foundation
- Line managers and department heads aiming to understand financial impacts of their decisions
- HR professionals and COOs seeking to align people, processes, and strategy with measurable business goals
- Aspiring CFOs and finance managers looking to structure business operations around efficiency and performance
- Employees from any function who want to become financially literate and contribute to business success
- Non-financial executives and leaders who need to connect strategy, performance, and financial metrics