Financial Management -Skills for Today’s Managers

Seminar

Financial Skills for Today's Managers strengthens professionals and managers in their financial decision-making and strategic management skills. Essential analytical and management tools are taught to make informed decisions and promote strategic growth.

Within three days, participants will learn the essential financial analysis and management tools needed to make informed decisions and successfully manage companies. Participants will gain confidence in reading and interpreting financial metrics, understand key aspects such as cash flow management, debt, and investments, and learn how to effectively align financial strategies with corporate success.

Inclusion in the St. Gallen Management Valley also provides access to an exclusive network of executives, financial experts, and entrepreneurs – for valuable perspectives and proven best practices.

This seminar is aimed at managers and decision-makers who want to specifically expand their financial expertise and sustainably strengthen their organization through strategically sound financial decisions.

Topics & Contents

Financial understanding & analysis

• In-depth analysis of financial reports and interpretation of key performance indicators.
• It increases security in dealing with balance sheets, profit and loss statements and cash flow analyses as a basis for decision-making – based on the St. Gallen Integrated Framework
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Basic financial concepts

• Sound financial and accounting principles are taught in an understandable form.
• A solid knowledge base is created to successfully manage the financial stability and performance of a company.
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Strategic financial decisions

• State-of-the-art tools as a basis for well-founded, financially based decisions.
• Growth impulses through knowledge-based cash flow management as well as interpretation of debt & capital costs and investments.
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Optimizing financial performance

• Practical approaches to applying financial knowledge to improve business performance.
• Effective resource management.
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Participants

• Innovative managers, specialists, executives and intrapreneurs who want to shape change: Do and make instead of chatter.
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• Successful, results-oriented doers and entrepreneurs who think strategically and act operationally: founders and entrepreneurs.
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• Experts, professionals and specialists on their way to comprehensive leadership and general management tasks.
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• Strategic consultants, IT specialists, creatives, scientists and high-potential management career changers.

Your benefits

• Develop your financial literacy by confidently analyzing financial reports and making informed decisions.

• Develop a clear understanding of balance sheets, income statements, cash flow, debt management, and investments to ensure financial stability.

• Deepen your knowledge of financial relationships to identify growth opportunities and manage risks in a targeted manner.

• Strengthen your ability to apply essential financial and accounting principles to ensure the long-term success of your business.

• Add additional seminars to your personal learning path for your success.

• You will become part of a unique network and benefit throughout your entire professional life.

At a glance

Voices from the StGallen imt Business School

The very different training methods, based on the St.Gallen Thinking and Learning Navigator, from simulations to real-life cases, are extremely enriching
and challenging – even for our refurbishing mobile phone business.

At every step of the learning journey, the imt Faculty has gone above and beyond to simultaneously challenge and support the seminar group, even giving advise how to solve specific challenges in our organization.