Financial Skills for Non-Finance People

Overview:
This two-day intensive workshop is specially developed to provide a solid foundation in financial analysis and decision-making, both from the perspective of the company and specific projects.

Financial Skills for Non-Finance People is an interactive workshop format including exercise, case studies, and real world projects to improve participants understanding and application of:

• Financial analysis tools and how to apply them to value new products and programs
• Basic and advanced techniques to make tradeoff and a portfolio decisions for product investments
• Financial techniques to communicate and sell advanced R&D, platform and architecture programs

By the end of the course, participants will have gained:

• An understating of how development programs impact key numbers valued by executives
• Key financial skills to justify product or technology programs
• A firm grasp of the three major financial reports: Income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows
• How to determine the ROI of platform and advanced R&D projects
• A working knowledge of risk and overall value of your product portfolio

Who Should Attend:
Product managers and marketers, engineering managers and leads.