Description
Through this course, you will learn accounting and financial principles and utilize these skills to be a better leader.Strengthen your decision-making process and gain a better understanding of finances and budgeting to make confident decisions in your organization. In this course, you will use small business examples to demonstrate how to create and evaluate budgets and raise money for your organization. You will use these foundational skills to learn how to account for operations and assess performance. By doing so, you will gain a deeper understanding of how to invest in growth
Content
- The budgeting process
- Different approaches to budgeting
- Building an example budget
- Initial investment
- Loans
- Net present values
- Cost of capital
- Accounting for operations
- Determining COGS
- Recognizing revenues
- Depreciating fixed assets
- Managing cash flow
- Evaluating financials
- Variance analysis
- New projections
- Principles of business valuation
- Growth and valuation
Impact
This course is designed for anyone who wants to better understand the financial considerations of starting, running, and growing a business. This includes managers who do not have a solid grasp of financial administration and leaders who want to make better data-driven financial decisions.
Logistics
100% online
15 weeks
5-6 hours
$375
Available On-Demand
Get a Certificate
This course is a part of the MBA Foundations Certificate. Participants who complete the certificate will receive a $500 scholarship applicable towards the tuition of any of the four MBA programs at the University of Utah.* Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to meet with one of our directors to discuss career goals.
*To qualify for the scholarship, participants must apply for the MBA program and be admitted. The scholarship is eligible for up to 18 months after completing the MBA Foundations certificate.
Proof of accomplishment
In addition to developing knowledge and skills, you will receive SHRM credits as proof of your accomplishment.
Eccles Executive Education is recognized by SHRM to offer SHRM-CP or SHRMSCP professional development credits (PDCs). This program is valid for 5.5 PDCs. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit SHRMCertification.org.
Faculty
Brian Cadman, Ph.D.
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