Your non-finance managers sit in budget meetings, approve spending, and receive P&L reports — but many are interpreting the numbers incorrectly, missing what they mean for their department, and making resource decisions without the financial literacy to justify them.
Participants gain the financial fluency to read, interpret, and act on the financial information relevant to their role — without needing an accounting qualification. Organisations gain managers who ask smarter questions in finance meetings, manage their budgets more precisely, and understand the commercial impact of every operational decision they make.
Key Outcomes
Read and interpret a P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statement with confidence
Manage a departmental budget — tracking variances, controlling costs, and forecasting accurately
Apply key financial ratios to assess the performance and health of a business unit
Build a simple business case for a capital or operational expenditure decision
What Makes it Different
Participants work with simplified versions of your organisation's actual financial statements throughout
Budget Challenge simulation: participants manage a departmental P&L through a series of business events
Financial Terms Glossary: a plain-language reference for the 50 financial terms every manager needs to know
Financial statements and budget scenarios used in exercises can be adapted from your organisation's actual reporting formats — making the financial literacy immediately transferable to participants' real responsibilities.
A perennial top-10 programme — delivered to operations, HR, IT, sales, and engineering managers across all sectors who need financial literacy without a finance background.