Effective Financial Decision Making for Non-Financial Managers

Learn To Make Better Decisions In This New Competitive World

 "Lucian has taught numerous utility finance courses for our EEI Executive Leadership Program and always received top ratings. The vice presidents learn a slippery subject in a power-paced course, and have fun doing it."
Cookie Palladini, Director
HR Planning & Development
Edison Electric Institute
Washington, D.C.

Course Objective:

The course is designed for participants without an accounting degree. It is for non-accounting employees. The primary objective of this course is to teach a customized finance and accounting course to non-accounting managers and supervisors. A second objective of this course is to teach managers and supervisors about their industry and what they can do to deal with financial opportunities and threats. Participants will learn how to better understand their company's financial statements and annual reports as well as how they can impact them. Participants will learn to get their budget approved, find money-making projects, prioritize and rank their projects and understand Wall Street's view of their industry and company.

Some Key Deliverables:

• Understand how to identify moneymaking projects developing over the next ten years.
• Learn to make decisions that will improve the four basic financial goals of your company under competition: efficiency, profitability, liquidity, solvency.
• Learn how to read your company's annual report and compare it to another company's.
• Learn six actions every employee can take to help the "Bottom Line".
• Learn what methods the top companies are adopting to evaluate departments and divisions and how to become "best in class" under these methods.
• Learn how to see the "Big Picture" and how you fit into it.