Certificate Program

Program Overview

The goal of this program is to provide managers and decision makers, without a strong grounding in financial analysis, those tools necessary to understand and interact with the financial side of global competition.  Participants will gain an understanding of the fundamentals of finance, and gain the confidence to communicate with financial practitioners by learning how finance professionals analyze and evaluate financial decisions.
Upon completion of the program, participants will not only be able to understand the finance function within the firm, but also contribute to the creation of shareholder value.

Key Benefits

• Understand basic financial terms and concepts and issues affecting financial decisions
• Learn how to interpret annual, budget and financial reports
• Gain insights into project selection techniques, terms and concepts of finance
• Learn how to effectively communicate financial concepts to operations business units
• Develop an understanding of the uses of financial statements for valuation and analysis

Who Should Attend

This course is an ideal introduction to finance for managers and executives who have little or no education or work experience in this area.  It is also designed for those who need to understand the pivotal role finance plays within their organization.

Key Topics

• Understanding financial terms
• Mastering the Time Value of Money
• Making Capital Investment Decisions
• Understanding Financial Statements
• Making Capital Investment Decisions
• Risk, Return and the Cost of Capital

Early registration fee $695.00 - Deadline July 25, 2008

This course prepares students for the computer adaptive version of the GMAT using a combination of lectures and assignments.  Emphasis is placed on test taking strategies under the CAT environment, identifying important information, and dealing with tricks and traps used by Educational Testing Services.  Students are prepared in all areas including problem solving, data sufficiency, critical reasoning, reading comprehension, sentence correction, and analytical writing.  The course fee includes the Official Guide to the GMAT and all other class related materials.  All students should have a computer and Internet access in order to complete homework assignments.  A laptop is required for in-class study and assignments.

• Understanding the Computer Adaptive Test and strategies to maximize your score
• Developing a uniform strategy to tackle the Data Sufficiency problems
• Dealing with problem solving questions Strategies, Shortcuts, and Tricks
• Understanding the three basic types of questions on Reading Comprehension
• Recognizing the most commonly tested errors in Sentence Correction
• Comprehending the basic construction of Critical Reasoning arguments
• Process of Elimination techniques for the Critical Reasoning Section
• Comprehension database of online practice problems with explanations.

* Continental Breakfast is included

Get an inside look at today's leading global management initiative.  Discover the tools and methodologies that have gained national attention.  Hear success stories and learn the cost benefits of deployment and roles of yellow, green and black belt leaders.