- Assertiveness & control of emotions - Assertiveness & control of emotions / stress management - Know your deepest motivations and obstacles - Understand and manage your emotions
- Collaboration and relational management - Collaborative logic and relational management - Ability to decipher non-verbal language - Ability to convey meaning, to be a pedagogue - Ability to engage in dialogue and share an analysis - Ability to argue in adversarial debate - Ability to challenge, formulate convictions and sound the alarm
- Communication, conviction - Communication & conviction in finance - Listening & discernment - Value-added analytical skills, ability to synthesize - Complex environments - Weak signals and meaning, in a context of infobesity - Ability to reconcile conflicting interests and manage dilemmas - Stepping back and crisis situations - Strategic thinking
- Accounting and consolidation under US GAAP - Accounting production: How to produce consolidated financial statements under US GAAP
- Change management - Change management in finance
Acquire the fundamentals
Target audience
- Non-financial managers
- Non-financial members of the Executive Committee
- Users of financial statements
1 day
Corporate finance game
Prerequisites
No prior knowledge is required.
Objectives
◗ Interpret the company's financial situation and strategic choices
◗ Contribute to discussions and decisions on business and finance issues
◗ Learn the fundamentals of finance: cash flow, working capital requirements, loans, budgets...
◗ A fun team experience
Contents
> La Finance pour tous is a business game. Participants playfully discover and experiment with financial tools and concepts, including :
- Basic financial statements and their usefulness for management: income statement (P&L) and balance sheet
✔ APPLY | Create your business as a team. Experiment with equity and debt financing issues.
- How market conditions impact on business decisions
✔ APPLY | As a team, respond to calls for tender by setting prices that enable you to be competitive and profitable.
- The importance of cash management
✔ APPLY | Make investment decisions that match your strategy by anticipating cash flow constraints
- The difference between cash and profit
✔ UNDERSTAND | Make your financial statements and understand by experimenting with the concept of accounting income.
- Fixed and variable costs, OPEX and CAPEX
✔ APPLY | Experience the impact of OPEX/CAPEX classification on your financial statements by making the business decisions that make your team win.
- Cost structure and capacity constraints
- Budgets and cash flow forecasts
- Impact of investment decisions
- The need to control working capital requirements
- Management indicators (ROA, ROI) and performance indicators
✔ UNDERSTAND | Understand the usefulness of performance ratios by applying them to the business decisions that make (or break) your team.
Why choose this course?
The aim of this workshop is to make financial training fun. In a competitive situation, participants construct their financial position on the game board and interpret the results of their decisions.
The consequences of their strategic decisions are immediate. Participants understand how they contribute (and will contribute) to their company's success.
This course can be the first step in a finance training program for non-financial staff, or adapted as a fun, team-building half-day to launch a corporate seminar.
Teaching and assessment methods
Training references: Finance for All is a hands-on business simulation that connects and engages participants. The game was developed by Andromeda Simulations International in the USA.
Practical details:
- Two versions of the game: face-to-face or remote.
- Participants: 12 minimum and 24 maximum in face-to-face mode (18 in remote mode).
Certified trainers.
During the session: the game board allows you to visualize the links between the balance sheet and the income statement, the cash position, etc.
Participants are grouped into teams and asked to make the best decisions to ensure that their company is sustainable and profitable. As the workshop progresses, trainees become familiar with the fundamentals of finance, while having fun at the same time. The result is a real sense of competition!
A complete booklet presenting the company's structure and concepts is distributed at the start of the session, so that participants can follow their decisions and the resulting financial results.
The numerous exchanges between the teams and the facilitator's interventions help to anchor and ensure the acquisition of knowledge.
Afterwards : the trainer is available at the end of the session to answer any questions relating to the training.
DATES: TO BE AGREED WITH YOU
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Price
1 295 € EXCL. TAX
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