Course Highlights
  • Identify problems in your company
  • Improve performance of your business
  • Understand the economic substance of projects you are engaged in
  • Make well-informed economic decisions
  • Able to weigh benefits against costs.
  • Understand the numbers in the financial statements of any company
  • Have more complete picture of your company and its competitors
Curriculum

1 Topic
Course Introduction

2 Topics
The Benefits of Financial Literacy
What is Finance

13 Topics
Every Business Has to Account for Its Operations
Financial Statements: the Balance Sheet
Business Start-Up
Practical Task 1
Practical Task 1: Explanation
Financial Statements: the Income Statement
Business Start-Up (continued)
Does Profit = Money?
Financial Statements: the Cash Flow
Business Start-Up (continued)
Practical Task 2
Practical Task 2: Explanation
Test 1: Accounting and Financial Statements

8 Topics
Financial Ratios
Practical Task 3
Practical Task 3: Explanation (+Business Start-Up continued)
Lender vs. Equity Investor: Risks and Rewards Rule
Analyze the Financial Statements of Apple Facebook and Ford
More Financial Ratios
Stock Market Valuation Analysis (Apple Facebook and Ford)
Test 2: Financial Analysis

9 Topics
Discovering Budget: Substance and Purpose
Budget Types: Incremental Zero-Based Rolling
Budgeting Process: From Goal to Budget Approval
Budgetary Control: What To Do After the Budget is Finalized
Cost Management: Direct vs. Overhead
Cost Management: Fixed vs. Variable
Test 3: Budgeting
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