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New classes at Learn iT!
Finance for Non-Financial Managers
Women and Leadership
Finance for Non-Financial Managers
In today's business environment, when every manager is held accountable for the bottom line, you have to know the language of accounting and bookkeeping.
Finance for Non-Financial Managers will help you understand the information contained in basic financial reports (balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements), and then provide you with the skills and tools to use that understanding to make informed, intelligent decisions.
This course is a must for non-financial managers and executives who need to improve their financial competency and utilize these skills to increase and measure their impact on the bottom line.
Introduction to Accounting
- Understanding Financial Statements
- Balance Sheet
- Income Statement
- Statement of Cash Flows
Using Financial Statements for Analysis
- Common Size Statements
- Liquidity Ratios
- Asset Management ratios
- Profitability ratios
- Leverage ratios
- Industry and Company Comparisons
Budgeting Audits and Auditors
- Types of Audit Opinions
- Stages of Financial Audits
Internal Controls
Women in Leadership
Women now account for over 46% of the total U.S. labor force, up from 29.6 % in 1950. In 2000, 4 out of 500 Fortune companies had female CEO’s. As of May, 2011 the number increased to 12, down from 15 in 2010. Top female executives earn on average 68 cents for every dollar a male executive earns.
Learn iT!’s one day Women and Leadership seminar enables participants to cultivate self-awareness, interpersonal skills, strategic thinking and personal influence that provide a foundation for effective leadership. Using interactive, engaging, tool-based exercises we develop leadership competencies that every woman needs to achieve professional and personal success.
Learning Objectives
- Use assessments to uncover your leadership qualities, optimize strengths and convert weaknesses into assets
- Understand how to increase and leverage your (EQ) Emotional Intelligence in the workplace
- Examine your current ability to effectively influence in the workplace and use the power you have to get what you want and what you need
- Avoid common communication pitfalls women make in business
- Learn coaching techniques to motivate and bring out the best in your team
- Discover what work-life balance means to you how to set expectations and create boundaries to achieve it
- Set a strategic vision for yourself and your team and begin to plan its implementation
Who Should Attend
Anyone interested in building a foundation for effective leadership and developing competencies that every woman needs to break through tough barriers and achieve professional and personal success.
Recommended Reading
- What Men Know About Success That Women Need to Learn by Gail Evans
- Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make that Sabotage Their Careers by Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D.
- Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change by Barbara Kellerman; Deborah L. Rhode