Finance for Non-Finance Professionals
Course Information
1 Day Course
Fee: $680 (before GST)
Course Dates:
- 22nd Jan 2026
- 26th Feb 2026
- 27th Mar 2026
- 24th Apr 2026
- 29th Jun 2026
Time: 9.15am – 5pm
Contact: [email protected]
Venue: Hotel (near MRT)
Note:
- Tea breaks and buffet lunch will be served. Car parking coupons are available upon request.
- For 3 pax and above, 10% discount across the board
Course Introduction
The importance of financial statements cannot be over-emphasized as, at the end of the day, the affairs of any business would be represented in Dollars and Cents by way of financial statements. Sales, Operation and HR Managers must, thus, understand and be able to analyse and interpret them for the purposes of analysis, budgeting, costing and reporting.
This 1 day course seeks to give the participants an understanding of what financial statements are all about – their uses, structure, format, contents and the key elements of financial performance indicators.
Learning Outcome
Participants will, after this module, feel more comfortable when faced with a set of financial statements. Financial statements can be very informative. At the same time, they can also be quite meaningless and even misleading, depending on whether one is able to read them beyond the figures shown. This course will take participants through discussions and exercises on both the qualitative and quantitative analysis of financial statements.
Course Outlines
Topic 1: Financial statements - what are they?
Topic 2: The different types of financial statements
Topic 3: Uses and users of financial statements
Topic 4: Limitations of financial statements/ shortcomings of financial statements - why you should be very careful when reading them
Topic 5: The Annual Report - what it contains
Topic 6: Structure / format and contents of Financial Statements:
- the Balance Sheet
- the Profit & Loss Statement
- the Cash-Flow Statement
Topic 7: Qualitative analysis - establishing how reliable the statements are
Topic 8: Quantitative / ratio analysis ( of key financial performance indicators)
- types of ratios
- calculating the ratios
- interpreting the ratios
- comparing the ratios ; rule of thumb, trend analysis, industry comparison