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Finance and Accounting For The Nonfinancial Executive: Dates: November 15 - 20, 2015
Finance and Accounting For The Nonfinancial Executive: Dates: November 15 - 20, 2015
OVERVIEW
Balance sheets and income statements. Cash flow and financial management. Many
executives rise to positions of great responsibility with less knowledge of finance and
accounting than theyd like to have. Finance and Accounting for the Nonfinancial Executive will
demystify the data, clarify key concepts, and teach you important frameworks and
fundamentals.
This highly focused curriculum taught by world-class faculty from Stanford Graduate School
of Business will help you identify trends, make performance comparisons with competitors,
and practice financial forecasting. Youll explore how much debt a company should accept,
the appropriate analysis for better investment decisions, the measurement of the cost of
capital, and the payment of cash dividends to investors. Bottom line, youll learn how to make
better financial management decisions to increase the value of your company in the
marketplace.
KEY BENEFITS
Morning Session I
Finance and Accounting for the Nonfinancial Executive will help you:
Morning Session II
Understand the core concepts, terms, and techniques of finance and accounting
Utilize financial concepts to make more informed decisions and become a greater asset to
your company
Lunch
Communicate with the key sources of financebanks, other lenders, and investors
Gain a broad overview of the financial marketplace and the role a company plays within it
Afternoon Session
Transitioning from Founder to External CEO
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Late Afternoon
Dinner
Study the mapping between underlying economic events and financial statements, and how
this mapping affects inferences about future profitability and cash flows. In particular, you
will examine the construction of financial statements from transaction information and
recognize the importance of judgment in accounting and its potential effect on financial
statements.
Individual study
Evening
Study group discussions
DECISION MAKING
Understand how to gather and use accounting and cash-flow information to make short-term
and long-term managerial decisions and recognize the critical role played by taxes in capital
budgeting situations.
CAPITAL STRUCTURE: THE CHOICE BETWEEN DEBT AND EQUITY
Identify the factors that must be considered in determining a firms optimal capital structure
and learn how the market reacts to changes in that structure.
gsb.stanford.edu/exed/fanfe
FANFE was amazing. I now view Finance and Accounting from a completely different angle.
The program was inspiring and will definitely change the way I think about finance. George
Parker is very passionate and the team was just great. I would strongly recommend
anyone to attend this program.
Sylvain Theveniaud | Director of Strategy & Marketing | SEKOYA Technologies | FANFE 2013
Industry
10% Agriculture/Food/Beverages
7% Biotechnology
19% Computer/Electronics/Software
7% Construction/Engineering/Materials
3% Environmental Services
14% Financial Services/Insurance
10% Manufacturing
10% Mining/Metal Processing/
Petroleum/Oil/Gas
3% Pharmaceuticals/Medical Devices
17% Telecommunications/Information
Services
Region
7% Asia
3% Australia/New Zealand
3% Europe
84% North America
3% South America
FACULTY DIRECTORS
George G. C. Parker, the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of
Finance, Emeritus, and Faculty Director of the Stanford Master of
Science in Management for Experienced Leaders program, is a
recognized expert in financial services and is acclaimed for his spirited
teaching of both MBA students and executives. He is the author of Risk
Management: Problems and Solutions (Mcgraw-Hill College, 1995).
Madhav V. Rajan, the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at
Stanford Graduate School of Business, oversees the MBA and MSx
programs. He is the Robert K. Jaedicke Professor of Accounting and
also Professor of Law (by courtesy) at Stanford Law School. Rajan
specializes in the economics-based analysis of management accounting
issues. He is coauthor of Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis (Upper
Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2014), the leading text in the field.
Maureen McNichols
Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and
Private Management; Professor of Law (by
courtesy), Stanford Law School
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