FINANCE FOR NON-FINANCIAL MANAGERS
We provide a series of training courses covering all aspects of company finance and accounts, from basic awareness to advanced accounts analysis. Our range of courses cover Profit & Loss Accounts, Balance Sheets, Budgets and Targets, Marginal Cost and Income Benefits, Accounts Analysis, and Cashflow & Trading Forecasting.

These courses range from those for staff with little or no understanding of company accounts, to advanced training that we provide for Business Advisers and Consultants in support organisations, such as Business Links, and trade associations and federations.

A COURSE EXAMPLE:

FULL DAY SEMINAR: PRODUCING BUDGETS AND TARGETS

Who will gain?

Owner, directors and managers of businesses, and those with budget and/or profit responsibilities.

Benefits of Attending

This workshop is designed to provide a clear understanding how to construct a budget and trading forecast, showing the key factors to include, and the essential consideration to make. The delegates will learn the technique to use in producing their own budgets and performance targets, and provide the knowledge to understand and use marginal cost and pricing benefits to give targets to improve the performance of the business. This workshop style seminar provides practical examples and exercises for the participants to use in an inter-active session, and includes Course Notes with further exercises and examples, as well as interpretations of the financial jargon they may come across.

Seminar Presenter

Peter Beech-Allen from Wessex Forum has provided senior management training programmes in finance and management account for the last 10 years. He specialises in providing clients with company analysis and business planning both on their own businesses and target companies. As a non-executive director and mentor to business owners he provides business development advice across a wide selection of industries.

Seminar Outline

Budgets
Key elements of a budget
Fixed and variable costs
Capital expenditure planning
Working capital requirements
Contingency planning
Testing the finished budget

Targets
Is it a target or a standard
How to set a valid target
Sales and marketing targets
Debt control targets
Monitoring performance

Marginal Change Benefits
What should be considered
Who to involve in the process
How to evaluate the impact
How to continuously improve
Performance benefits

MORE INFORMATION
If having read this guide you would like to discuss how we may be able to help you, please call us on (01373) 454576 and speak to Peter Beech-Allen, or E-mail a request to us for further information.