Finance Essentials for Strategy Execution gives executives with nonfinancial backgrounds the skills and knowledge needed to transform individual and company performance. This focused, hands-on, innovative program helps you develop the skills to address critical financial planning and disclosure issues, assess the financial consequences of your decisions, and determine the value of projects, divisions, and firms.

You'll leave with a clear understanding of cutting-edge financial approaches and tools and how to use them to achieve greater financial accountability and transparency in your division or overall company.

PROGRAM TOPICS

• The Essence of Financial Decision Making
• Financial Statement Analysis and Interpretation
• Timing, Valuation, and Interpretation of Cash Flows
• Making Investment Choices
• Financial and Funding Strategies
• Business Strategy and Accounting Policy
• Corporate Valuation: Linking Strategy and Finance
• Options Basics
• The Financial Reporting and Disclosure Process
• Corporate Governance

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The program is designed for general managers, corporate officers, aspiring and current board members, and other division and subsidiary managers not responsible for day-to-day corporate finance. Participant groups represent a broad range of industries, including biotechnology and drugs, computer peripherals, construction, engineering, financial services, insurance, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and medical services, and publishing.

PROGRAM FACULTY

Faculty Director

Anant Sundaram, Faculty Director of Executive Education and a member of the finance faculty at Tuck, specializes in global finance. His research, teaching, and consulting focus on linking value creation to global strategy implementation. He has published dozens of articles and cases in finance, law, and corporate strategy in leading journals, and is coauthor of The International Business Environment. He is a highly acclaimed teacher, and has won numerous teaching awards. He has led courses for senior executives and consulted for many well-known global firms and business schools worldwide. His specific areas of expertise include business valuation, corporate governance, and mergers & acquisitions.

Program faculty include: Paul Argenti, Robert Howell, Kent Womack