Finance for the Boardroom Programme

What you will learn

You will gain:

• Advanced insights into how financial strategy can help drive value in your organisation.
• An increased understanding of how your business model translates into the financial numbers.
• A greater ability to make knowledgeable and appreciated contributions to the board with a firm understanding of financial reports.
• Appreciation of the practical implications of investment decisions and acquisitions.
• Confidence with the language of finance, bringing with it an ability to challenge financial presentations and successfully recognise opportunities.

Your organisation will gain:

• Enhanced financial literacy contribution at board level, encouraging better strategic decisions.
• A more knowledgeable and effective executive with a clear understanding of your organisation's financial performance, and the implications that come with it.

Core content

Finance for the Boardroom is a three-day residential programme taking place at Cranfield School of Management.

You will benefit from the creative practices, diverse ideas, and successful methods used to overcome challenges that your peers and faculty have faced through working in a range of sectors.

The practical and adaptable design of the programme content ensures that you are fully equipped with state-of-the-art tools and frameworks to successfully improve financial performance and shareholder value in your organisation.

This programme address the challenges you face when interpreting corporate financial data and discussing strategic decision making at board level. You gain best practice models to:

• support your role
• understand long-term value and how to best achieve it
• effectively recognise the cost of capital and determine appropriate capital structure
• implement investment appraisal techniques
• understand your organisation's valuation methods
• gain advanced insights into what your organisation's accounts really tell you and what they don't disclose.