Financial School for Non-Financial Managers

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Financial School for Non-Financial Managers

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dates of programs start

15/6/2026

Format

3 days [offline]

10:00 - 18:00

cost

33 000 uah

Financial School for Non-Financial Managers

From financial statement analysis to modeling business-enhancing management decisions.

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The program is designed for:

Functional Leaders (Marketing, Sales, HR, IT, Product) who seek to master the language of financial performance

Mid-to-Senior Level Managers focused on evaluating departmental results and the overall profitability of the enterprise

Business Unit, Project, and Product Leads responsible for assessing ROI and making evidence-based decisions

Decipher and interpret financial statements (PNL, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow) to uncover the managerial reality behind the numbers;

Identify value leakages and profit reserves, while gaining a structural understanding of departmental or project costs;

Evaluate performance through the lens of relevant financial metrics and KPIs;

Advocate for budgets and investment requests using data-driven arguments in dialogue with owners and CFOs;

Analyze Unit Economics to pinpoint key profitability drivers at the product level;

Deploy financial analysis tools for the daily diagnosis of business health.

The structure of the program

Key topics

June 15-17

Finance as the Language of Business and a Reflection of Decisions

A Management Perspective: The Connection Between Strategy, Operations, and Financial Results;
The Logic of Financial Reporting: How to “Read” the P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow;
Performance Analysis: Profit Structure, Types of Expenses, and Key Metrics for Managers;
Departmental diagnostics: identifying “bottlenecks” through financial indicators.

Planning and profitability drivers

Budgeting as a management process: developing product and business unit plans;
Common planning pitfalls: how to avoid mistakes when defending and executing the budget;
Unit economics: calculating profitability at the product unit or customer level;

Decision-making: analyzing the payback period of initiatives and financial modeling of the consequences of management decisions.