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MANAGERIAL FINANCE
Make informed managerial and investment decisions with a practical
understanding of your organisation’s financial health.

Gain crucial finance skills and learn to identify business opportunities as

you work through the weekly modules of this online certificate course.

ABOUT THIS COURSE

To effectively drive organisational success, business leaders and managers across

functions require a firm grasp of finance. It’s a key component to understanding how
an organisation operates, and these professionals need to be commercially-minded to
participate in financial discussions and decision-making.

The Managerial Finance online certificate course from LSE equips you with a practical
grounding in modern finance. Over the course of six short weeks, you’ll develop the
tools to understand corporate finance, financial statements and reports, and
fundamentals such as the time value of money. You’ll also learn how to apply these to
your business context through forecasting methods, project evaluation, realistic
performance plans, and the monitoring of financial outcomes. Increase your managerial
impact with stronger financial insight, and make more informed contributions to
organisational discussions and decisions.

Is this course for you?

As employees are promoted to more senior positions or management, these new roles
often call for greater financial accountability. This online certificate course focuses on
providing vital corporate finance knowledge and skills to non-financial managers, and
is geared towards anyone in a managerial or leadership position – as well as those
aspiring towards one. You’ll develop your commercial acumen, as well as a practical
understanding of the dynamic between a company's finances and its non-financial
departments and projects.

This course is certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service, and may be
applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional
bodies. The course has an estimated 65 hours of learning.

Note: should you wish to claim CPD activity, the onus is upon you. The London School of
Economics and Political Science (LSE) and GetSmarter accept no responsibility, and cannot
be held responsible, for the claiming or validation of hours or points.
What will set you apart:

On completion of this course, you’ll walk away with:

1.The confidence to contribute to financial discussions and decision-making.

2.A financial toolkit for the modern business environment that empowers you to
make more strategic managerial and business decisions.

3.The ability to understand financial reports, analyse the financial health of any
organisation, and forecast for future success.

4.Unlimited access to 2U’s Career Engagement Network, offering you exclusive

resources and events to support your professional journey and drive your

career forward.

COURSE CURRICULUM

Module breakdown

 ORIENTATION MODULE: Welcome to your Online Campus

 MODULE 1: Financial statement analysis

 MODULE 2: Financial forecasting

 MODULE 3: Discounted cash flow analysis

 MODULE 4: Optimal investing

 MODULE 5: Funding strategies

 MODULE 6: Valuing entire companies

COURSE CONVENOR
The design of this online certificate course is guided by LSE faculty, as well as
industry experts, who will share their experience and in-depth knowledge with you
throughout the course. View the prospectus to see all the industry thought leaders
featured on this course.

Dirk Jenter | Professor of Finance, LSE Department of Finance