Financial Management Training

Financial management training courses and seminars from Kaplan Hawksmere, the UK’s leading business management training company.

Would you like to offer any of the following courses or seminars in-house? You can save on employee travel costs and time away from the office with high-quality management development training on your premises.

Kaplan Hawksmere’s in-house capability is built on a solid foundation of over 20 years experience in the training consultancy, public course and conference industries. We serve over 60,000 customers each year. Organisations seeking in-house and bespoke training solutions know they can trust Kaplan Hawksmere for results-oriented, practical delivery. To speak with a member of our dedicated in house services team, please contact us on 0845 076 0679 (at local rates) or e-mail incompany@hawksmere.co.uk.

• 'The 5 day MBA!' - Developing the high performance manager

  This Fast-track, senior management development programme is a must attend course designed for high performance managers who must drive profit and success in difficult times.

  
  

• Accounting for recession and recovery

  The course provides a clear summary together with practical illustrations of topical financial reporting issues and an overview of the options available to and possible pitfalls for the directors of an insolvent company.

  
  

• Capital taxes update & refresher

  Over the last few years there have been substantial changes to the taxation of individuals from both legislative changes and case law. This course is designed for those who need to understand the impact of these changes when advising clients on their estate, and planning for family succession

  
  

• Commercial skills for financiers

  This workshop will allow attendees to explore their own behaviour and provide some techniques to improve their awareness and creativity.

  
  

• Effectively presenting financial information

  This course will look at how to identify what information to communicate and how to effectively present it, to draw out key messages in a user friendly format.

  
  

• Essentials - Using finance to control your business

  
  

• Finance for the non-financial manager

  This seminar will explain simply and clearly what the key financial statements mean, how they work and relate to each other and how your actions as a manager affect them and your business.

  
  

• Influencing and negotiation skills for finance professionals

  This course will give you insights and practical tools to use in your negotiations, providing a structure for the negotiation process with tools and techniques for use at each stage.

  
  

• Introduction to city and financial markets

  This introductory course will ensure you have a clear understanding of the main aspects of the City and key financial markets. You will gain a solid technical foundation for further research or study.

  
  

• Kaplan Hawksmere's finance directors' annual conference

  This event is specifically designed to address the increased challenges facing Finance Directors including developments in law and best practice, key FD audiences and career development, equipping them to make the maximum possible contribution to their businesses.

  
  

• Modern management accounting update

  This course will give you an understanding of new developments beyond the traditional, budget-constrained model of the firm using case studies from successful companies.

  
  

• Overhead cost reduction

  A concentrated day of practical advice and guidance on how to minimise your overheads - immediately yet sustainably, improving the bottom-line without jeopardising the top-line.

  
  

• Planning, forecasting and budgeting

  A concentrated day of practical advice and guidance on how to improve your planning, forecasting and budgeting processes - for better financial control and performance.

  
  

• Successfully implementing business strategy

  A concentrated day of practical advice and guidance on how to bridge the gap between high-level strategy and the detailed changes managers throughout your organisation need to make day-to-day in order to achieve effective implementation.

  
  

• The Credit Crunch - financial reporting and pre-insolvency issues

  The course provides a clear summary together with practical illustrations of topical financial reporting issues and an overview of the options available to and possible pitfalls for the directors of an insolvent company.

  
  

• Update for accountants in business

  The seminar offers an intensive overview of key issues and areas that affect you in your daily work – risks, regulations and responsibilities in the areas of accounting, tax, law and financial reporting.

  
  

• Using Excel to solve business problems

  This course will increase your ability to use Excel in dealing with complex financial problems, to run sensitivity analysis on the results and to present your findings in a highly effective way.

  
  

• Using key performance indicators for business improvement

  This course defines what a true KPI is and provides delegates with the opportunity to define the appropriate KPIs for their own organisation, using certain techniques. The course also considers how financial information generally can be better presented to improve its clarity and impact.

  
  

• WEBINAR - Reducing the right costs

  This webinar will outline an approach for identifying the right costs to cut.

  
  

• Working capital management and cashflow

  The course provides an overview of the strategic considerations associated with effective working capital management before examining some of the key techniques used to manage the different elements of working capital.