Principles of Financial Leadership

This course provides a rigorous, but straightforward, introduction to the key concepts of financial understanding. Using real-world case studies and practitioner interviews, as well as timely knowledge checks, you will integrate your new knowledge and problem solving skills with practical application. The course will be particularly beneficial if you: engage with/need to engage with financial specialists, and want to collaborate more effectively; are self-employed or are considering self-employment; are considering a career or secondment in finance; you are interested in corporate finance, financial management, or business finance; or you are simply interested in the subject and wish to know more.

This course focuses on financial accounting, capital markets, and the relationships between them. On completion of this course, you will be able to: Apply and explain accruals and accruals accounting. Model and explain financial sensitivities. Appreciate the role of markets, and our place in them. Understand and apply sustainable finance. Integrate your learning and identify your next steps. With case studies, mini-quizzes, as well as clear expert lectures this course enables you to apply terms and techniques that have been explained to ensure that the learning makes sense in the real world. Skills learned can be put to use when making strategic decisions, or simply understanding financial modelling for projects or the wider business. An organisation’s sustainable cash flows and its accounting profits (or losses) are both supremely important, but they can be very different. Explore the differences between debt and share capital, fact and judgement in financial reporting and financial markets, and understand and apply terms such as capitalisation, depreciation, amortisation and revaluation.