Business Acumen

Two people seated engaged in business training.
Build your financial savvy and smarts by making sense of numbers.

Course price includes:

  • Perth’s best facilitators and coaches at Perth’s best CBD training centre
  • Interactive, practical and hands on learning with small groups for maximum impact
  • Free help desk support after your training
  • Take-home resource workbook
  • Certificate of Attendance
  • Our 100% quality guarantee

Duration

1 Day

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Whether you work in the corporate, SME, government or not-for-profit sector, every organisation needs to create value. This course will help you to see the big picture, contribute to business effectiveness and value creation, and understand how your actions impact on the bottom line.

Course Times

  • 8:30am to 3:30pm

Course Content

Introduction

  • Course and personal objectives
  • What’s your organisation’s ‘why’?
  • The concept of value

Seeing the bigger picture

  • What business are you in?
  • What does success look like?
  • The balanced scorecard model
  • How to manage risk
  • How to maximise opportunities
  • Balancing risk and reward

Numbers matter

  • Assets and liabilities
  • Profit and loss
  • Cash flow
  • Numbers talk – interpreting financial and performance metrics

Maintaining and boosting organisational performance

  • Time is money!
  • Long term goals, short term objectives, everyday actions
  • Making smart business and operational decisions
  • Operational efficiency: getting the best out of your resources, assets and systems
  • Continuous improvement

Putting it into practice

  • Action planning