Principles of Financial Leadership Specialization

This course focuses on financial accounting, capital markets, and the relationships between them. On completion of this course, you will be able to:

Apply and explain accruals and accruals accounting. Model and explain financial sensitivities. Appreciate the role of markets, and our place in them. Understand and apply sustainable finance. Integrate your learning and identify your next steps. With case studies, mini-quizzes, as well as clear expert lectures this course enables you to apply terms and techniques that have been explained to ensure that the learning makes sense in the real world. Skills learned can be put to use when making strategic decisions, or simply understanding financial modelling for projects or the wider business. An organisation’s sustainable cash flows and its accounting profits (or losses) are both supremely important, but they can be very different. Explore the differences between debt and share capital, fact and judgement in financial reporting and financial markets, and understand and apply terms such as capitalisation, depreciation, amortisation and revaluation.

Through this course you will not only learn key financial concepts, but how to apply them to a business to improve its financial prospects.

As you know, sustainable businesses need to earn consistent and predictable profits, but it is important to understand how these are calculated. Different accounting techniques, and how to value a business are explored throughout the sessions below: Whether one of your KPIs is Total shareholder return, or you want to understand the figures associated with your capital investments, this course will de-mystify financial reports and help you to make balanced assessments of risks and opportunities.