Finance and Accounting for the Nonfinancial Professional (Online)
- Requirements
- This program is suitable for professionals at any level in their organization who currently need or anticipate the need to be able to understand, communicate, or use basic financial information.
Finance and Accounting for the Nonfinancial Professional (Online)
Overview
As you progress in your organization, understanding financial information, “speaking” the accounting language, and being able to conduct various financial analyses becomes increasingly important. If you have limited experience analyzing and interpreting accounting principles and financial statements, join Columbia Business School Executive Education online to ramp up your financial fluency.
In this practical five-week program, you will dissect the elements of financial statements and learn to apply key financial principles to your own business. Demystifying terms such as net present value (NPV), price-earnings ratio (P/E), and forecasting will lead you to make decisions that deliver more value to your organization, improve your overall financial competence, and boost your business confidence.
We answer questions such as:
- What is financial accounting?
- How are common transactions reflected in the financial statements?
- What are the uses and limitations of financial statements?
- How do you reformulate financial statements to conduct informative analysis?
- How do you evaluate the profitability, solvency, and liquidity of a company?
- What are the key elements of planning and control?
- How do you evaluate and select projects?
- How do you estimate the value of a company?
- How do you forecast financial statements for budgeting, performance evaluation, or valuation purposes?
Please contact our partners at Emeritus at columbia@emeritus.org, +1 315-982-5094, or +1 315-277-2746 for a personal conversation to learn more.
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“As you progress in your organization, understanding financial information, ‘speaking’ the accounting language, and being able to conduct various financial analyses becomes increasingly important. This program will provide you with the ability to use accounting information, communicate in financial terms, and evaluate key financial aspects and ratios.”
Doron Nissim
The program’s faculty director
Impact
In a five-week curriculum, the Finance and Accounting for the Nonfinancial Professional (Online) program builds your financial competence and your business confidence. Even if your day-to-day responsibilities never directly concern equity or earnings, this program will help you understand and communicate how financial principles relate to your piece of the business.
During the program, you will:
- Gain a solid foundation in finance and accounting
- Learn accounting terminology, key concepts, and principles
- Understand how to communicate with financial professionals
- Apply concepts to common business scenarios
- Arrive at an understanding of the financial implications of business decisions
- Conduct various financial analyses
Case Studies
Immersing yourself in real-world financial statements and case studies during the program will help you navigate the numbers and give you the confidence to analyze and interpret your own organization’s financial statements.
Upon completion of this program, you will earn one credit towards a Certificate in Business Excellence with select alumni and tuition benefits.
Program Structure
At Columbia Business School Executive Education, peer-to-peer learning and market-relevant program work are essential to the in-class experience. We have replicated this approach in our globally connected online classroom so you will learn from the professor, program leaders, case studies, guest speakers, and each other — no matter where you are in the world.
Program highlights include:
- Five self-directed modules
- Industry examples with real-world financial statements
- Capstone case study
- Weekly assignments
- Peer discussion and feedback
- Dedicated program support team
- Mobile learning app
- Workbook with examples and solutions
- Live faculty webinar
For a complete program schedule, please download the brochure.
Participant Profile
Finance and Accounting for the Nonfinancial Professionals (Online) is designed for professionals at any level in their organization who currently need or anticipate the need to be able to understand, communicate, or use basic financial information.
Representative roles and titles, job function, and industry may include:
Any role in an organization that requires the use of financial information or involves making decisions that have financial implications
Faculty
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