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Finance Essentials

Learn the Ins and Outs of Corporate Finance

Regardless of your job title, knowing the ins and outs of corporate finance will help you perform your duties better and enhance your professional development efforts. No single course can possibly equip you with all the knowledge, all the tools, and all the techniques you will need in your daily work situation, but this course aims to provide you with the most significant concepts in the exciting and ever-changing world of corporate finance.

The goal of this course is to enhance your financial literacy. In his article from Boards and Directors, "Testing Your Financial Literacy," Philip B. Livingston defines this skill set as the ability to "recognize terms and understand the implications of basic financial decisions."

Whether you are new to this field, or an established veteran who possesses high financial literacy, you will explore, in this course, tools and techniques that will help you in your day-to-day job, no matter if your job responsibilities involve manufacturing, distribution, or some other corporate function. These tools and techniques, ultimately, will help to strengthen your company's financial strength.

Why Should You Attend

By the completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • Recall three key concepts of financial decision-making;
  • Explain considerations for properly evaluating the financial records of a company of interest;
  • Describe key components of various financial statements, such as a balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement;
  • Indicate common uses of financial statements for decision-making, including the construction and comparison of key financial ratios; Recognize important financial ratios used to evaluate company performance;
  • Outline categories, levels, and forces that drive activity-based costing;
  • Explain ways to achieve targeted profitability;
  • Describe the role of technology in forecasting profitability of customers and business;
  • Examine financial difficulties of a company in the global financial arena; and create an action plan to enhance your financial literacy.

Program Format

Thunderbird offers independent-study programs featuring some of the same key benefits as our facilitated online programs including 24-hour access, a highly-interactive learning environment and Thunderbird-quality content.

The unique aspects of our self-study online programs include the following:

  • Learning is self-paced
  • Programs are one to three weeks in length
  • Participants spend approximately three hours per week engaged in learning

Program Price

The cost of this online independent study program is $400.


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Contact Us

Joe Patterson
Assistant Vice President, Online Learning
execedonline@thunderbird.edu
Tel: (602) 978-7437
Fax: (602) 439-4851

Toll-free within the U.S.
Tel: (800) 457-6959
Fax: (800) 457-6982