LSE: Financial Analysis and Management Accounting

About LSE: Financial Analysis and Management Accounting

About this CourseIn today’s shifting business landscape, a functional understanding of finance and accounting has become an integral part of any influential manager’s toolkit. On the eight-week Financial Analysis and Management Accounting online certificate course from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), you’ll develop a financial and managerial accounting toolkit to drive decision making and enhance organizational performance. With a firm grounding in accounting principles, you’ll improve your ability to analyze statements, and learn how to communicate financial results to key business stakeholders. With guidance from expert LSE faculty, you’ll discover how insights into your company’s costs, efficiencies, and profits can help create a culture of sustained improvement, and learn how delegating decision-making authority can foster a sense of responsibility in your team. Finally, you’ll assess the role of planning, budgeting, and performance targets, and explore how to design incentive, monitoring, and feedback systems that can achieve them. Please note this course is geared towards non-financial managers and professionals from a broad range of industries and business areas. Prior knowledge of accounting is not required or expected. This course will benefit any non-financial manager or professional seeking to develop their accounting skills and knowledge to inform strategy and improve business performance. It’s aimed at individuals with limited accounting knowledge, whether they are new or aspiring managers looking to broaden their financial skill set, business owners or entrepreneurs responsible for organizational decision making, or non-business management professionals wanting to accelerate their career progression. The course isn’t suitable for current finance or accounting professionals.