Finance & Performance - Business Management Toolbox

Upon completion of this path, participants will be capable of:

• Acquiring basic knowledge of financial management/planning and performance measurement
• Learning methods: Virtual class / Autonomous learning

• Financial management
  • Understanding accounting and bookkeeping entries
  • Drawing up a balance sheet and a profit and loss account
  • Commenting on one’s balance sheet notes
  • Analysing a financial situation
  • Knowing the basics of management control
  • Assessing an investment or an opportunity
  • Budgeting, drawing up a financial plan
  • Knowing the main management software suites
• Performance measurement
  • Difference between indicators for monitoring performance (reporting) and management indicators
  • Diagnosis by the participants of their own indicators
  • Performance modelling as justification for selecting indicators: the aims and the variables involved
  • The two main modelling methods: the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and the OVAR matrix
  • Construction of a performance model using the BSC method (e.g. strategic card) and the OVAR method
  • The passage from modelling performance to selecting indicators
  • Organising a dashboard of indicators
  • Presentation of practical issues involved in creating a dashboard
  • Limits of the dashboard

At the end of the course, participants will receive a certificate of attendance issued by the House of Training.