Finance For Administrative Professionals Informa Connect Middle East
Instructor led live virtual classroom online. Classes may be individual or in group.

Course details

Being able to understand financial information is an essential skill for Administrators, PAs, Executive Assistants, Departmental Managers and Leaders. This course will provide you with the skills to read and interpret financial statements, understand key concepts, and use these to improve your administrative performance and your personal professional development. 

What will I learn?

  • Financial Documents And The Organisation
  • Accounting Concepts And How Accountants Think
  • How Financial Figures Are Used
  • Assets And Their Treatment In Accounts
  • The Concept Of The Margin
  • Cost classification
  • Cost centres
  • How costs are apportioned
  • Preparing budgets and forecasts.
  • Managing budgets
  • Explaining variances
  • Presentation Of Financial Information
  • Improving Organisational Performance
  • Cost Of Capital, And Introduction To The Concept Of Return On Investment (ROI)
  • Budgeting And Budget Challenges
  • Negotiation with the accountant
  • The link to quality approaches
  • Sharing financial information: benefits and drawbacks
  • Identifying and managing business financial risk
  • Business projects and use of financial information and argument

Target Audience:

Suitable for Business Administrators, Managers, those working within fi nancial departments; HR Professionals; Department heads, PAs and Executive Assistants.

What will I benefit from the course?

  • Demystify finance jargon
  • Understand key documents; the balance sheet and profit and loss statements
  • Implement cash management in administration – managing debtors, suppliers, settlement discounts, buying and stocking effectively
Updated on 01 May, 2018

About Informa Connect Middle East

Informa Connect Middle East, is part of Informa, a multinational publicly listed publishing and events company.

The Middle East office was previously known as IIR Middle East, and has been established in Dubai since 1993. Informa Middle East has grown to be the largest event organiser in the region and with over 300 staff, the office runs over 450 training courses and over 40 conferences regionally on an annual basis.

The company also incorporates Informa Global Exhibitions which organises around 130 trade and consumer exhibitions in over 38 cities across the globe.  Arab Health, Cityscape, Middle East Electricity and The Bride Show are some of the flag ship events.
Aside from the public training courses, conferences and exhibitions, Informa Middle East also provides in-house training to companies as well as manages events on behalf of corporate clients. Some of the past clients include NBAD, Microsoft, Etisalat, STC, Mobily, and ADNOC.  

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