Fundamentals of Finance for Non Accountants

The ability to understand, interpret and decide upon financial information that can help improve business performance and profitability.

Sitting down in management meetings, listening to finance jargon and feeling lost is not very productive, neither listening to the Finance Manager refering to the financial statements when one do not understand what he is refering to exactly.

This course is to simplify these concepts targeted to non-financial individuals and assist you in becoming more familiar with terms like balance sheet, income statement and cash flows. This will be done by explaining such items as assets, capital, liabilities and profit & loss items.

In addition other evaluating tools will be explained such as financial ratios and present value.

The intention of this course is to help non finance individuals and managers gain the required knowledge to be able to appreciate and use financial information for the benefit of their department and/or organisation.

The Speaker

Stephen Fenech main areas of business are management, finance and sustainable energy. Stephen holds a Henley Master of Business Administration and a Master of Science in Sustainable Energy from the University of Malta. Stephen began his working career in 1992 in Finance as a group financial controller for a number of leading local companies and foreign owned companies. These companies operated in various sectors such as construction, manufacturing, tourism, service providers and retail. Following this experience Stephen decided to move to management and after graduating from Henley UK in 2006 he moved to organisational management for a local cruise company. Later he joined a leading renewable energy company in the post of a GM. This was at the time when this industry started to grow at a very fast rate. Stephen furthered his expertise by completing an MSc in sustainable energy in 2013. Currently Stephen is an independent consultant working in the field of management, business and renewables. He is also lecturing up to Masters level for 3 reputable management schools in subjects such as Finance, Economics, Business Mathematics, Marketing and Project Management. He is also a member of the Malta Institute of Management, Chamber of Engineers, Malta Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energies Association (M.E.E.R.E.A.) and Henley Alumni.