Financial Planning and Decision Making

Dates:

26 May & 1 December 2010 (a one-day course)

Price:

£365+VAT (a number of discounts are available)

Venue:

The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)

Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability

"I enjoyed the course and thought the presentation was very clear and engaging."

Blackwell Publishing delegate

You know what the numbers are; you already understand what a balance sheet and P&L are. But how do you make use of all this information? How do you make effective financial decisions? How do you make the most of your working capital and your budgets? What are the key factors involved in costing, pricing and managing margins? This course is for middle and senior managers faced with decisions that impact on the financial position of their company. It will help you to:

set and manage budgets effectively
make effective costing and pricing decisions
create financially viable forward plans
predict and analyse the impact of your decisions.

The packed single day focuses on the key financial indicators – and what they mean to you and your company.

Programme

Introduction
The key control documents
Analysing financial information
- Identifying key information
- Using ratios
- Trend analysis and forecasting
Managing money
- Control of working capital
- Stock, creditors, debtors
- Budgeting
- Controlling risk
Making money
- Managing margins
- Gross and net: key factors in each
- Short and long term action
- Costing
- Cost drift
- Pricing
- Evaluating investment options

Who will benefit from this course?

Managing Editors, Publishers, Division and Department Heads, Marketing Managers, Sales Managers, Production Managers

You’ll need a prior grounding in basic financial terms and principles to get the most from this course. Publishing Finance: An Introduction can provide this. To help you decide which course would be best for you, we've devised a brief self-assessment questionnaire.

Your tutor

Kay Symons has 30 years' experience with some of the foremost educational publishers in the UK. She worked at Heinemann for 20 years, as publishing director and MD of Heinemann Secondary and Vocational during a period of huge success from 1997-2004. After a secondment to take an international executive MBA programme at Henley Management College, she fulfilled a number of roles working on strategic projects, as Marketing Director and as Harcourt's first Customer Focus Director. She is now a publishing consultant and popular trainer.

Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in-company events.

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Dates: 26 May & 1 December 2010

Price: £365+VAT (a number of discounts are available).

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