Finance for non-Finance - Cohort 1

Program Overview
Finance and accounting are at the heart of every organization. This learning path covers the essentials of finance and accounting and how financial data is generated, reported, and used for financial analysis, decision making and control and is helpful to all professionals with little and no knowledge of finance and accounting. This course focuses on explaining the main SME finance principles, mainly focusing on credit risk analysis, the lending decision process and appropriate risk-taking intermediation as well as customer relationship management.

Target Audience
 Individuals who want to gain a basic understanding of finance and accounting concepts to know the core fundamentals of how money flows in a business and how to ‘read’ the financial statements.

Program Outcomes
1.    Understand the fundamentals of finance, investment, risk, budgeting, and accounting.
2.    Analyse the three financial statements: Balance sheet, Income statement and cash flow.
3.    Understand the essentials of budgeting.
4.    Understand the essentials of the investment process.
5.    Using different methods to analyse financial statements of a corporation.