About This Class

Executives take for granted that you understand the fundamentals of finance. The people doing the talking presume that you speak the language, that you can read the financial statements, and that you can use basic financial tools to make decisions. But can you?

What if you’re not sure of the difference between an income statement and a balance sheet, or between profit and a positive cash flow? What if you can’t define inventory days or days sales outstanding, and you don’t know how to use those numbers to improve financial performance?

If questions like these make you sweat, you’ve come to the right place. This guide will give you the tools and confidence you need to master finance basics, as all good managers must. You’ll learn how to:

The truth is that many managers and executives score poorly on this short test. With the vast majority scoring 50% or less - a failing score in most schools.

We start with this 25-question quiz, and although it isn’t designed to measure your entire financial IQ, but it will give you a sense of the fundamentals you should learn to become a more effective manager. When you finished, you’ll have a better idea of your current knowledge.

What you will learn About This Class

This course will give you the tools and confidence you need to master finance basics, as all good managers must. You’ll learn how to:

• Speak the language of finance

• Compare your firm’s financials with rivals’

• Size up your vulnerability to industry downturns

• Shift your unit’s focus from revenues to profits

• Use financial data to defend budget requests

• Avoid running out of cash—and going out of business Keep costs from killing your bottom line

• Invest smartly through cost/benefit analysis

• Sell your brilliant idea with ROI

• Avoid putting too much faith in the numbers

This Financial Foundation Course has been designed to enable greatly improve your financial intelligence .

How will this help you?

• You will increase your financial intelligence

• You make better decisions, quicker and avoid common mistakes

• You will go prepared to a job that requires basic knowledge in finance.

• You will feel more confident about the fundamentals of finance and how to apply it.

• You will be able to add this to your CV (just put it under "Professional Development", Udemy, Year of Completion).

  
  

Who is behind this course?

I am the Managing Directorof a green building consultancy in Malaysia, and a LEED AP, Before that I was a university teacher (Yonsei University Korea), Project Manager, entrepreneur, and enjoy teaching. I have an MBA from London Business School. I enjoy creating courses.

This course is specifically for:

• People who want to improve their knowledge of finance

• If you have some understand of finance, this would be an excellent starting point in terms of experience or knowledge.

• Students interested to becoming managers

• Managers that want to advance their career

• Business owners

• People with an open mind and a willingness to learn.

This course is not suitable for:

• People that prefer quantity over quality.

• People that like lengthy and theoretical explanations.

• People who aren't prepared to go through the entire course and take notes.

• People who expect things to work out without any effort or preparation.

• People who want to learn about the specific details about deep finance topics - this is a foundational level course