This program equips managers with a strong foundation in accounting, budgeting, working capital management, and financial reporting, enabling non-finance executives to understand the language of numbers and internal financial processes.
To further enrich the participant experience, we are introducing a three-day focus on financial decision-making. This ensures that, beyond accounting literacy, managers gain the ability to apply finance tools directly to business and strategic choices.
- To remove fear of accounting and finance and to communicate effectively with Finance Executives.
- To acquire a solid grasp of how information is conveyed in basic financial statements and monthly reports reflecting the performances; how to analyze the information, how to use the information to make informed decisions
- To enhance the decision making skill by using accounting, cost and management accounting
- concepts in day to day operating decisions and planning the business models
- To gain confidence in both interpreting financial statements (Day 1–2)
What the Additional Day Covers
- Apply the Time Value of Money (TVM) to real business situations such as lease vs. buy and supplier credit terms.
- Use Capital Budgeting tools, Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), and Profitability Index (PI) to evaluate investment projects.
- Understand the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) and its role in choosing the right financing mix (debt vs. equity).
- Explore how financing decisions link directly to corporate strategy, growth, and competitiveness.
- Engage in a hands-on group to exercise these tools in a business scenario and present recommendations to a mock board.
Key Takeaways
- Gain confidence in making finance-driven decisions (Day 3).
- Understand how financial metrics impact profitability, growth, and shareholder value.
- Be able to communicate more effectively with finance teams, banks, and investors.
- Walk away with a holistic skillset: Accounting for reporting + Finance for decision-making.
- Importance of Accounting and Finance for Non Finance Managers for business decision making.
- Mastering in reading Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Account and Cash Flow Statements along with key accounting concepts, assumptions and statutory requirements.
- Understanding how performance of marketing, sales, production & inventory management is reflected in Financial Statements.
- Techniques for analysis of financial statements to provide basis for evaluating financial and management performance.
- Analysis of Cash Flow Statements.
- Product cost sheets and role of non-finance professional in product cost reduction and combating competition or sales price constrains.
- Cost concepts & their use for business decision making including concurrent engineering, cost of quality.
- Break Even analyses- for planning a new business and controlling the operations.
- Budgeting - techniques & importance, operating, financial and cash budgeting.
- Working Capital Management & Capital Structuring.
- Overview of Project Management.
- Effective Management Reporting and Risk Management.
- An overview of Corporate Reporting and matters relating to non-finance executives.
- Case Study.
- Strategic management
- Balanced scorecard & implementation of strategy
Senior & Mid-Level Non-finance executives who are involved in the business operations including: Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain, Production, Engineering & HR, etc.
Past Participants were from
- Abbott Laboratories
- Ali Gohar & Co.
- Attock Cement
- Business & Engineering Trends
- Engro Corporation
- Karachi International Container Terminal
- K-Elctric
- Lundbeck Pakistan
- National Petrochemical Industrial Company
- National Telecommunication Corporation
- Pakistan International Container Terminal
- Pak-Suzuki Motor Company
- Pfizer Pakistan Limited
- Ray Pharma
- SSGC
- TOTAL Oil Pakistan
IBA CEE Cancellation Policy for Open Enrollment Programs:
In the event of participant's cancellation, the following schedule will apply:
- 5 days before start of workshop - No cancellation
- Within 4 to 2 days prior to workshop Half program fee forfeiture
- Within 1 day and No Shows - Full program fee forfeiture
Cancellation notification must be made in writing to CEE.
Postponement
Due to any unavoidable circumstances, the workshop may be postponed by the institute. In case of postponement, the institute will refund full fee of the program or the participant may opt to defer his/her registration to the next program.
Substitute
Substitutes will be taken at least 2 days prior to the workshop. Should we be unable to accept your application for any reason, your payment (cheque/draft) will be returned to you.
Deferrals
All registrations deferrals must be requested in writing at least 2 days prior to the workshop. Send a note to the Program Registration Team indicating that you wish to have your registration deferred to another session of the same program within one year. The deposited fee will be carried forward. Please note that only one transfer is permitted. After one year, the deposited fee will be fully forfeited.
