Finance for non-finance managers
The program is made to eliminate mysteries around finance. That includes not only the principles, the logic and details, but gives you an overview of how and why finance works.
2×2 days on-site in Budapest
12-13 November 2024 and 10-11 December 2024
Price: EUR 2500
In many senses and understanding, finance is a mystery where accountants and controllers operate within a black box, producing analytics, graphs, reports, plans, and many other things to ‘support’ your job.
But what does finance bring to business, and why do many say that finance is an essential part of business and business decisions?
Are you often faced with:
Meanwhile, you would like to focus on your job but must also meet all the above?
For whom: Mid to senior leaders who want to better understand finance, but not the scientific details, more the drivers that will support them to better collaborate with finance in the future.
We will delve into the functions and activities to provide you with a better understanding of what happens when you interact with finance. We will employ our well-known SEED practical, ‘DO-HOW focused’ approach for this.
Our objective is to improve awareness and understanding and provide you with better skills to manage your business in relation to finance.
We shall cover several topics during the program, from basics to details tailored to your specific needs, within the framework of the following major building blocks:
By the end of the course you will be a better navigator of financial matters without having to become a finance expert!
The program is a combination of intensive team days (“Camps”) and options for individual discussions with the Program Instructors. During the Camps, you will work in the combination of plenary sessions and small teams of maximum 6 participants, each small team supported by one of the Program Instructors.
The Camps will focus on the most important financial principles through simple explanations and handsome examples and exercises. You will be able to bring your financial topics for discussion with the instructors or fellow colleagues.
The individual discussions will support you with your personal needs, to better understand structures, cases in general related to finance activities.
(Two days)
YOU and FINANCE (Part 1):
WHERE FINANCE STARTS:
CASH IS KING !/?:
(Two days)
FINANCE IN DECISION MAKING:
FINANCE’S ROLE IN CONSTANT CHANGES, TRANSFORMATION:
YOU and FINANCE (Part 2):
Individual discussions with the Program Instructors can be asked to discuss your topics in relation to finance activities and structures in general.
Krisztina is currently the CFO of RTL Hungary, and has 30+ years of diverse leadership experience across multiple sectors ranging from finance to the ICT, media and energy sectors.
Over her 25 years at Raiffeisen Bank she served in several executive positions as CRO, CFO and member of the BoD. Later she led Cisco Systems Hungary as General Manager, and acted as CFO and member of BoD at ELMŰ-ÉMÁSZ Group.
János has 25+ years experience in senior management and finance leadership. He acted as the CFO of Delco Remy and Hitachi, later worked as the CFO of Magyar Telekom Group between 2013-2020.
He was also chairman of the BoD of Crnagorski Telekom and member of the BoD at Makedonski Telekom for several years.
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