Analytical Thinking
Explore key finance and accounting principles that will enable you to understand and interpret financial data to immediately make impactful financial management decisions in your organization.
This course leads you through a journey on key finance and accounting principles that enable you to understand and interpret financial data and make immediate key financial management decisions in your organization
- Strengthen financial acumen: Refresh or expand your knowledge of key accounting and finance practices.
- Improve collaboration within your organization: Build fluency in accounting and finance concepts to improve cross-functional communication.
- Make data-driven financial decisions: Strengthen your ability to assess financial impact and maximize ROI.
- Diagnose your organization’s performance: Use financial statements to uncover growth opportunities.
- Develop a performance scorecard: Track key metrics while understanding trade-offs.
- Immediate application: Apply key concepts and insights immediately to real-world business challenges.
- Directors, senior managers, entrepreneurs, and recognized high-potential individuals in an organization.
- Managers moving into greater organizational responsibility in the areas of Finance and Accounting
- Next-level leaders who are on the path to gaining additional finance and accounting management responsibilities
- Individuals seeking professional or entrepreneurial growth
- Professionals without prior formal finance expertise and/or who lack a formal business education background in accounting and finance
Finance and accounting principles determine how firms communicate essential information about the business to external stakeholders and tell the story of how an organization operates and competes in the marketplace. Finance interprets that information to make critical business decisions. This Analytical Thinking course leads you through a comprehensive journey of key finance and accounting principles to translate a balance sheet into a management tool.
This course incorporates real examples with a focus on decision-making to help you interpret financials like a P&L owner. You will understand how to measure the value generation process in your firm. By the end of the course, you’ll have developed a toolkit to make and understand key financial decisions at a firm.
Every aspect of our in-person and online programs is designed to deliver you a truly world-class experience.
World-renowned Ross faculty experts will guide you through the latest tools and frameworks to enhance your individual and team leadership capabilities while you engage with global participants across diverse industries.
Program directors work closely with faculty before, during, and after the program to ensure you achieve your objectives. Through dynamic, immersive learning experiences–including assessments, simulations, expert panels, and action-based applications–you’ll leave with an actionable plan to implement meaningful change in your organization.
Program managers facilitate a seamless transition between classroom and off-site activities and assist with anything you might need–ensuring your focus is on learning, not logistics.
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