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Making informed business decisions requires a fundamental understanding of financial reports. Financial Analysis and Reporting for Non-Financial Managers introduces and explains the essential elements of financial reporting, including managerial and financial accounting. Participants learn to interpret the basic components of financial reports, assess the costs and benefits of business decisions, and communicate operating, investing, and financing strategies.

Previous accounting experience is NOT required.

• Understand a statement of financial position (balance sheet)
• Link successive balance sheets with an income statement
• Analyze cash flows
• Evaluate financial performance
• Connect operating and financing strategies with external financial reporting
• Determine the incremental cost and profit of a business decision
• Assess the pros and cons of activity-based costing
• Build budgets and use them to monitor and evaluate performance
• Evaluate the links between financial and non-financial measures of performance
• Convey business strategies through reporting

Duke's Financial Analysis and Reporting for Non-Financial Managers is designed for professionals who need to develop an understanding of accounting fundamentals to make more informed business decisions. Course topics are essential for managers in all functional areas, including marketing, finance, human resources, operations, and investor relations.

Located at the heart of venerated Duke University, within the prestigious Fuqua School of Business, Duke's Executive Education program offer an invaluable, engaging, and one-of-a-kind learning experience you won't find anywhere else.

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