Croner Training

Employment & HR

Finance skills for HR professionals

Date	3 December 2008
Duration	2 Days
Price	GBP 999 + VAT Membership Price: 499.5 + VAT
Location	London
Venue	Kensington Close Hotel
Registration	9.00-9.30
Close of Seminar	5.00
Our code	26744
Also held on	8 December 2010, London

• Why you should attend this seminar
• Who should attend?
• Benefits of attending
• Programme
• Trainer
• Quotes from past delegates
• Are you a Croner Publications subscriber?
• 2nd delegate discount
• In-house training
• A total compliance solution

Why you should attend this seminar

It is generally accepted that an effective Human Resources department is an indispensable part of the success of any business. While you are perfectly at ease dealing with the people aspects of your role, you may well experience some misgivings when it comes to crossing functional boundaries into the finance area. If you are to contribute to the future of your organisation on the same basis as other functional heads, you must develop the ability to use financial information with the same degree of confidence as they do. You can’t become an accountant overnight, but you can learn how to think like the Finance Director. No prior knowledge of finance is assumed and every effort has been made to make the content of this programme as accessible and relevant as possible. Croner Training brings to this seminar the same authoritative content and attention to detail that characterises its published materials. Presented by a speaker who has extensive experience in training non-financial specialists, Finance skills for HR professionals will give you the boost you need to deal with numbers confidently.

Who should attend?

• Human resources professionals
• Personnel officers, managers and directors

The seminar is relevant for those working in the private sector, the public sector and not for profit organisations.

Benefits of attending

After attending this seminar you will be able to:

1. Prepare HR budgets with more depth and meaning
2. Review management information with a higher level insight
3. Communicate with the finance function in their language
4. Challenge numbers and know what key questions to ask about them
5. Contribute with confidence to board discussion about financial performance
6. And most importantly, state clearly to your board how HR adds real and significant financial value to the organisation

Programme

1 The balance sheet – seeing the real business behind the numbers

• Getting a feel for the different types of asset
• Looking at liabilities and the risks attached to each
• How to assess the balance sheet strength
• A simple, structured approach to interpretation of the numbers
• Key accounting language – gearing and liquidity

2 Income and expenditure, profit and loss – developing the confidence to challenge the numbers

• How to get started – which numbers to look at first
• Learning to ask the right questions rather than to expect answers from the numbers
• Key accounting language – accruals, capital vs revenue, gross profit and ratios
• How to judge performance quickly and intuitively including performance ratios – ROI and ROCE

3 Cash Flows

• The difference between profit and cash
• Checking the cash – how to spot the danger signs in a business

4 The budget challenge - gaining peace of mind through doing it properly

• The language of budget planning – zero based, incremental, cost codes: how to understand what the finance function expects of you
• Your ‘monthly financial reports’ – how to understand where the accountants get those numbers from, and how to explain your variances
• How to learn from experience and reforecast with improved vision

Trainer

Charles Tuffin: Charles is a highly experienced trainer whose specialist areas are business and financial awareness programmes. His training experience is backed by an MBA from Warwick Business School (1999) and formal qualification as a Chartered Accountant. He has designed and presented a variety of training programmes over 20 years experience which includes ∑ Business and financial awareness for non-accountants from manager up to board level in both the public and private sector ∑ Finance programmes tailored to specific professional functions – examples include procurement, supplier cost managers, credit controllers and HR ∑ Presentation skills, train the trainer programmes and report writing ∑ Executive coaching on finance and business Charles recent work for organisations with the public sector accoutnability includes finance skills programmes for the NHS, Town Planners, Local Authorities, plus the transport, education and culture sectors. Charles has had many articles on financial skills published in regional business magazines.

Quotes from past delegates

q “Excellent, thoroughly worthwhile” Caroline Cave-Browne, HR Advisor, Southampton City College

Are you a Croner Publications subscriber?

If so then you are entitled to an additional 5% discount on your booking. Simply enter your Croner BP number on our online booking form to qualify (offer applies to online bookings only).

If you are interested in subscribing to any Croner title and receiving this and other benefits then call 020 8547 3333 for more information.

2nd delegate discount

Booking a second place on this event entitles the second delegate to a 10% discount

In-house training

Tailor-made training for your organisation

This seminar can be presented exclusively for your organisation on an in-house basis, tailored to meet your specific needs. You can:

• Have the programme tailored to your specific needs
• Choose your preferred date and location
• Save on staff travel, time and accomodation costs
• Maximise the impact of the training by putting an entire team through the same programme

For more information about this service - and a no-obligation quotation - please call our in-house training team on 0845 082 1169 or email info@cronertraining.co.uk

A total compliance solution

Whether you’re an HR professional in a multi-national, managing personnel issues in a medium-sized organisation or running a small business we have the HR information you need to get the most out of your staff and comply with the law. From consultancy, and comprehensive online information services to books we have you covered. Simply visit www.croner.co.uk for more information.

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