Advanced Finance for Non-Financial Managers
A programme designed to help you reach a deeper understanding and fluency in budgeting, performance management, forecasting, and valuation.
Upcoming programmes
Format:
Dates:
Duration:
Fees:
Face-to-face
5-6 Jun 2025
2 days
£3,600 + VAT
Upcoming programmes
Format:
Face-to-face
Dates:
5-6 Jun 2025
Duration:
2 days
Fees:
£3,600 + VAT
Overview
You picked up the basics of finance and accounting either on the job or from our foundation Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers programme. Now you’re leading strategy, making decisions on acquisitions, in or reaching for the C-Suite, or want to know exactly how the financial models were produced by your finance team and financial advisors. The Advanced Finance for Non-financial Managers programme will equip you with the knowledge to develop budgets, optimise KPIs, set transfer pricing and produce forecasting and valuation models to help with managerial and investment decisions. Throughout the journey you will be learning from real world examples and eventually produce your own performance evaluation system, financial forecasting and valuation model.
Benefits and career impact
- Develop confidence and fluency in financial concepts to help you achieve your strategic goals.
- Communicate your strategic recommendations to board members, C-suite decision makers and financial advisors with financial finesse.
- Build a managerial toolbox for performance measurement.
- Design and implement effective incentive structures aligned with organisational goals to drive performance and motivation.
- Gain a digital certificate of attendance from Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education.
- Empower managers to confidently make strategic decisions based on deep financial analysis.
- Improve organisational performance through optimised budgeting, KPI management, and effective financial forecasting.
- Drive better investment decisions and valuation practices to achieve long-term business growth
improve management control over an organisation.
After this programme, you will have the confidence communicating your strategic decisions knowing that you are on a level playing field with your Finance colleagues and advisors.
Programme content
Module 1: Performance management
- Define and compare managerial tools to implement corporate strategy and balance organisational tensions.
- Compare span of accountability and span of control.
- Explain organisational interdependence and transfer pricing methods.
Module 2: Balanced scorecards and budgeting
- Summarise elements in performance evaluation systems.
- Describe the steps in the process of designing budgets and setting targets.
- Compare cost control and empowerment.
Module 3: Forecasting and valuation
- Learn how to identify drivers of future profitability and cash flows.
- Work through a discounted cash flow model.
- Assess alternative valuation models.
- Understand the importance of sensitivity and scenario analysis.
Module 4: Valuation project
- Understand how strategic analysis impacts key assumptions in valuation models.
- Apply the concepts from module 3 and produce a financial model and valuation recommendation.
How you learn: Face-to-face
Immerse yourself in an inspirational learning environment in the historic and beautiful city of Cambridge. Engage with faculty and peers in person, in an intense classroom experience. Join ‘Cambridge Union’-style debates, hear from guest speakers and faculty, and enjoy group exercises, role-play and informal conversations both in and outside class.
Who attends
This programme is suited to non-financial managers who have basic knowledge of finance and accounting concepts, and are looking to achieve financial fluency. The programme will be particularly helpful to those leading strategy, making decisions on acquisitions, in or reaching for the C-Suite.
This programme will help you to develop a managerial toolbox of frameworks and techniques to select and implement strategies that drive organisational success.
Faculty and speakers
Learn from our world-class faculty who bring fresh insights from their leading-edge research into all of our Executive Education programmes. The Academic Programme Directors (APDs) for the Advanced Finance for Non-Financial Managers programme are Dr Jenny Chu and Professor Rafael Rogo.
Deputy Director of the Centre for Financial Reporting and Accountability (CFRA)
PhD (University of California, Berkeley)
Head of the Accounting Subject Group
Co-Director, Centre for Financial Reporting and Accountability (CFRA)
PhD (Northwestern University)
Why Cambridge Judge Business School?
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Speak to a programme advisor
If you have any questions or would like to discuss how this programme could benefit you or your organisation, please get in touch with the programme advisor.
