Financial Intelligence for Strategic Leaders

Financial Intelligence for Strategic Leaders Value creation and corporate finance for non-finance professionals

“As a non-finance professional, I now feel much more confident in tracking financial performance, spotting risks, and using data to guide strategic decisions.”

Brent Jenkins Development Manager

Understand the financial implications of your strategic decisions, interpret corporate financial data with confidence and use financial insight to create value for your organisation. The Finance for the Boardroom programme is designed for non-financial professionals. It will provide the skills and tools you need to successfully address financial performance, evaluate business plans and use financial strategy to create long-term value. This programme will not turn you into an accountant, but it will help you develop a deeper understanding of the financial information you use to make strategic decisions. You will learn to analyse financial data, expand your awareness of key corporate finance practices, and build your confidence to engage knowledgably with your finance teams.

Who should attend?

Senior leaders with a non-finance background: • C-suite and board level executives, • Directors and senior managers, • Heads of department or business unit, • Partners and senior consultants, • Senior technical experts.

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What you will learn

The programme brings corporate finance to life with practical and relevant advice that can be implemented in your organisation. Key outcomes include: • Develop confidence in corporate financial language, strategies, initiatives and impacts. • Evaluate financial performance and data that unlocks new insight to support strategic decision making. • Cultivate deeper insight into how your business model translates into the financial numbers.

You will gain: • Advanced insights into how financial strategy can help drive value in your organisation. • A greater ability to make knowledgeable contributions at a senior level through your understanding of financial statements and reports. • Insights into the practical implications of investment decisions and acquisitions. • Improved confidence in corporate finance with an ability to challenge financial presentations and recognise opportunities.

Your organisation will gain: • A senior leader with enhanced financial literacy, able to offer meaningful contributions that encourage better strategic decisions. • A more knowledgeable and effective executive with a clear understanding of the organisation’s financial performance, and the implications that come with it.

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“Just brilliant! This programme offered a very slick set up in every respect.” Marianne Ellis CTO and Co-founder

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Programme experience

The three-day programme is designed to offer practical and adaptable content to address the real-world challenges you face when interpreting corporate financial data and discussing strategic decision making at a senior level. You will benefit from the creative practices, diverse ideas, and successful methods that the programme director and your peers on the course have used to overcome challenges in a range of sectors. You will leave fully equipped with the tools and frameworks needed to successfully improve financial performance and shareholder value in your organisation. The programme delivers best practice models to: • Support you in your role and increase your strategic impact. • Und erstand long-term value and how to best achieve it. • Recognise the cost of capital and determine appropriate capital structure. • Implement investment appraisal techniques. • Understand your organisation’s valuation methods. • Gain advanced insights into what your organisation’s accounts really tell you and what they don’t disclose.

• Making the business case. • Commonly used methods of investment appraisal. • Avoiding common pitfalls in financial forecasting. • Balancing risk and return in capital allocation. • Understanding and applying the cost of capital. • Linking investment, financing and business strategy. Day two

• What is shareholder value and why does it matter. • The seven drivers of value creation • What financial statements reveal about performance. • Interpreting the balance sheet and income statement. • Financial ratio analysis for decision making • Linking financial statements to business strategy Day one

• Company valuation: The income approach. • Company valuation: The market approach. • Applying valuation to corporate transactions. Day three

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Programme director

Professor Yacine Belghitar Yacine is Professor of Corporate Finance at Cranfield University. He specialises in driving financial excellence to transform operations and create value, with particular expertise in turning financial insight into actionable results. Yacine helps organisations unlock value through financial strategy, sustainable growth, and scaling. He has advised private equity firms, worked with international energy companies, and is an independent advisor on corporate financial strategy and governance. Prior to Cranfield, Yacine held teaching and research posts at Middlesex and Durham Universities. He is the Course Director for Cranfield’s Finance MSc and Programme Director for the Financial Intelligence for Strategic Leaders programme. Sought after for his insight on driving sustainable growth and scaling in organisations, Yacine has led ESRC-funded research on managerial incentives and firm risk. He is associate editor of a peer reviewed research journal, and his research work is widely published and reported.

To book contact: Cranfield Executive Development team Tel: +44 (0)1234 754500 Email: execdev@cranfield.ac.uk For more information visit: www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/fisl

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