Acquire the fundamentals
Target audience
- Company founders
- Employee representatives
- Employee representatives on the Board of Directors
- All company personnel
0.5 day
With Tutoring
Getting started in finance - online training
Prerequisites
Online training - Getting started in finance
It is aimed at anyone wishing to acquire a basic understanding of finance, with no need for prior knowledge of accounting or finance.
This e-learning course is designed to be accessible and progressive, helping non-financial professionals to discover the language and fundamental mechanisms of corporate finance. Thanks to an immersive teaching approach combining explanatory videos, interactive animations, storytelling and validation quizzes, it enables everyone to learn the financial basics at their own pace, based on real-life business cases.
The learner also benefits from individualized support via a distance tutoring session, in order to contextualize the knowledge acquired according to his or her professional environment.
Objectives
◗ Developing a financial culture
◗ Become aware of the financial stakes to become a credible interlocutor within your company
◗ Identify your own contribution to the company's financial performance
Finance online training program
> This tutored e-learning course is made up of 8 modules (20 to 30 minutes each), organized chronologically for a progressive learning of financial language.
Module 1 - The business model: discover the elements of the business model and understand how the business model is impacted by market trends.
> Module 2 - The financial cycle: understand the fundamental concepts of operating income and margin, financial profitability, asset rotation and self-financing.
> Module 3 - The balance sheet: detail the elements making up the balance sheet, and put them into practice through a practical case study.
> Module 4 - Sales: recognizing sales on a percentage-of-completion or completion basis, differentiating between sales recognized, invoiced and received.
>Module5 - The income statement: make the link between income, cash flow and performance monitoring, learn about intermediate levels of costs and margins.
> Module 6 - Costing: know how to analyze costing, differentiate between costs charged directly to projects (or products) and costs charged via allocation keys (in particular hourly rates).
> Module 7 - Cash: understand the time lag between cash-in and cash-out and measure the impact of operational activities on cash flow, discover Free Cash Flow.
> Module 8 - The investment decision: Understanding the concepts of return on investment and cost of capital. Discover payback, NPV and IRR.
> Individual distance tutoring session
Why choose this online course to get started in finance?
Finance is a challenge for everyone in the company. This 100% online training course enables non-financial professionals to acquire the vocabulary and basic concepts needed to understand a company's financial issues and communicate effectively with a finance department.
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Teaching and assessment methods
This training course is 100% online on the FinHarmony Digital platform. Its content is equivalent to 1 day's face-to-face training.
- Linked by a compelling storytelling, all modules are divided into several interactive sequences to engage the learner. They include voice-overs, instructional videos and animations, as well as "What about me?" and "Can I try it? An evaluation quiz concludes each module to check that the essential points have been retained.
- Learners can spread their learning over the 3-month period.
Modules are released as the learner progresses. Once completed, they can be used again and again until the end of the subscription period. - Technical and pedagogical support:
- At the end of the course, a tutorial meeting is organized with the trainer to discuss the learner's professional context and review the key points of the training.
- A downloadable handout is provided for each module, to make it easier to memorize key points.
- A glossary is permanently accessible from the menu. It can be downloaded at the end of the course. - A FinHarmony certificate is awarded when the learner completes the entire course.
Price
500 EXCLUDING VAT
This training can be customized and contextualized to your company. Please contact us for more information.