Finance for Business Leaders

In today's business world, the ability to develop, interpret, and communicate a financial forecast is no longer reserved for accountants or finance teams. Whether you’re a new, aspiring, or seasoned business leader, developing critical financial skills in research, budget and forecasting, financial reports analysis, and risk assessment is vital to the success of your team or organisation’s strategic goals. 

Build with up-to-date and domestically relevant content, this course teaches real-world financial skills applicable to an organisation's day-to-day. You'll learn the critical techniques used to forecast and manage financial and business performance. This course has been built with leading industry partners BlueRock, REA, and Medibank, so you can feel confident that what you’re studying is best practice and aligned with the desired skillset in the industry.

Our Finance for Business Leaders course is ideal for: 

• Aspiring or recently appointed managers who are responsible for your team or department’s financial forecasts and budgets. You’re looking to expand your financial acumen and develop the ability to influence commercial decisions, develop commercial presentations, and manage budgets and financial strategies. 
• Professionals and existing managers looking to upskill your financial capabilities to advance your career and secure a more financially responsible role.  

Throughout this course, you will: 

• Critically analyse an organisation’s key goals and financial drivers to develop a forecast, including key revenue drivers, cost structures, and risks. 
• Operationalise a forecast by gathering key data, identifying KPIs, and determine a reporting strategy, in order to respond to actuals and influence real-time decisions 
• Present a brief to key stakeholders on the stages and business outcomes of a forecast for a business unit, including justifying the decisions made, the key assumptions, risks and KPIs. 

Throughout this course, you'll learn how to develop the capability to interpret reports and translate forecasts using the latest industry tools and templates. Your final project will be a 10-minute video, presenting a financial forecast where you will explain the rationale of assumptions made, analysis of risks and KPIs, translate a team's individual accountabilities, and a method to track and report on financial audits. 

This course can be taken as standalone but has been designed to be taken as part of a two-course Project + Finance Management bundle (with a saving of 10% across both courses). For a more comprehensive understanding of Project and Finance Management, we recommend that you also complete Project Management for Professionals)