Understand what financial statements reveal about a company’s health and performance. This module introduces the key components of financial reporting, including the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement. It also covers working capital management and emphasizes the use of financial ratios to assess liquidity, profitability, and solvency.
Objective
Enable non-finance managers to make financially sound, profitable operational decisions
Workshop Overview
This live online workshop is delivered by Bartosz Tyrala, PhD, CFO, SAP, Consultant, London Business School, Bystronic Switzerland, Advent International. He helps non- finance teams restore margin visibility and cost control. In this workshop, your team will redesign cost structures, strengthen controlling logic. Expect practical tools, clear governance models and measurable profitability impact within weeks.
Programme Structure
Key Module 1: Financial Statements & Business Performance
Key Module 2: Management Accounting for Operational & Strategic Decisions
Learn how management accounting supports both day-to-day operations and long-term strategy. This module introduces core concepts such as cost classification, cost management techniques, and profitability analysis across customers, products, and services. It also provides a foundation for understanding break-even point (BEP), as well as operational and financial leverage. Additionally, participants will explore how management accounting is applied within ERP systems.
Key Module 3: Investment Decision-Making & Financial Evaluation
Develop the skills needed to evaluate and make sound investment decisions. This module focuses on the concept of incremental cash flows and introduces key financial evaluation tools such as Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and Net Present Value (NPV). Participants will learn how to assess project viability and support capital budgeting decisions.
Key features
Business Outcomes
Build financial literacy across managers to improve margin discipline, working capital performance and investment choices, using decision frameworks across enterprise applications and business teams.
Is this right for you?
Use this workshop when teams need stronger visibility into cost drivers, profitability thresholds and cash flow impacts, with clearer accountability across planning, forecasting and decision cycles.
Workshop Impact
Teams gain practical financial skills to identify cost drivers, interpret statements, understand ERP finance concepts and apply financial knowledge to real business scenarios with confidence clearly.
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