Program Date
October 8-11, 2007: $5,000*
Registration Deadline: September 10, 2007
April 7-10, 2008: $5,000*
Registration Deadline: March 10, 2008
Online registration for the 2008 program will be available soon.
*All-inclusive (includes tuition, instruction materials, accommodations, and meals for the entire program).
The Finance for Global Managers program provides information and insights you can put into practice within your organization. Among other benefits, you:
- Develop a stronger, deeper understanding of modern financial practices
- Learn how to report hedging strategies in international operations
- Compare and evaluate several empirical computer-based models Take away a proven set of decision-making tools and financial techniques specifically for global managers
- Expand the ability to evaluate financial decisions and industry trends in a global environment
Testimonials
"High octaine session with financial lessons I applied on my first day back in the office. I couldn't tell if the CFO was impressed or terrified! Also, the instructors were real people who were involved during and after class."
Tony Best
President and CEO
St. Mary Land & Exploration Co.
"The Thunderbird School of Global Management Finance Course that I took last week in Phoenix, AZ was outstanding and provided me a very useful foundation and deeper understanding of the challenges of global business expansion within TNS. Of particular interests were sessions including Financial Statements, Analysis & Interpretation, Lease vs Buy Decision, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy, Governance & Financial. The case studies were obviously well selected and helped to maintain a consistent leve of motivation from the more routine Molakai Gas and Dakota Office Products discussions through the complexity of the Enron Demise - Were There Warning Signs?"
Doug Jackson, Executive Director
Network Operations and Global Business Development
Thomson/Technicolor
Continuing Education Units
The continuing education unit (CEU) is a recognized method of quantifying participation in an organized continuing education experience under qualified instruction. One CEU is equal to ten contact hours of time spent in such an educational experience.
The main purpose of CEUs is to provide a permanent record of the educational accomplishments of an individual who has completed non-credit educational and career enhancement activities.
Each participant successfully completing the Finance for Global Managers program is eligible to receive 2.5 CEUs.
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Subject matter includes topics and case studies in the following areas:
- Financial Decision-Making
- Timing and Valuation of Different Types of Cash Flows
- Financial Statements and Ratios
- Forecasting Company Profitability
- Determination and Interpretation of Cash Flows
- Linking Growth Strategy to Financial Strategy
- Forecasting Increment Profitability
- Allocating Cost: Activity-Based Costing
- Forecasting Profitability of Customers and Business Units
- Determination and Interpretation of Cost of Capital
- Valuation of Projects, Divisions and Companies
- Cross-Border Valuation
- Measuring and Motivating Managerial Performance
- Measuring Performance in a Global Multidivisional Firm
- Corporate Governance
Faculty
Thunderbird's faculty members are fully dedicated to global business and are uniquely qualified, not only as academic leaders but also by virtue of their consulting experience with companies around the world. Program participants benefit from personal interaction with faculty, generating active networking and innovative thinking.
Graeme Rankine, Ph.D.
Academic Director
Accommodations
Thunderbird's Executive Inn, located on the Thunderbird campus, features 134 private bedrooms equipped with a full- or queen-sized bed, private bath, desk, cable TV, refrigerator and coffee maker. Each room has a laptop computer plug-in, plus private phone service with voicemail. Same-day laundry service is available. For your safety and convenience, all facilities are non-smoking and accommodations can be made for special needs.
Bonnie Cameron Wells
Program Director
bonnie.cameron.wells@thunderbird.edu
Tel: 1-602-978-7623
Fax: 1-602-439-4851
Naomi Dawson
Program Manager
naomi.dawson@thunderbird.edu
Tel: 1-602-978-7627
Fax: 1-602-439-4851
Toll-free within the U.S.
Tel: 1-800-457-6959
Fax: 1-800-457-6982
Thunderbird School of Global Management
15249 N 59th Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85306