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Financial Analysis for Business Performance: Reporting and Stakeholder Management 

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Overview

Communicate and report to key business stakeholders and use your financial knowledge to aid decision making

Duration

4 weeks

Mode of learning

Online

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Financial Analysis for Business Performance: Reporting and Stakeholder Management
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Financial Analysis for Business Performance: Reporting and Stakeholder Management
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Course details

Who should do this course?

This course is designed to support learners who need to engage with large volumes of financial data. This includes entry-level finance or accounting professionals who would like to progress to higher-skill positions, and current finance professionals. It would also be useful for new managers and leaders, as well as business workers and entrepreneurs.

What are the course deliverables?
Explain and compare the reporting needs of varying stakeholders
 
Create repeatable reporting systems to support ongoing business decision making requirements, using Tableau and Excel to prepare common visualisations or data stories to support ongoing performance reporting
 
Identify and analyse the varying cost types of a business
 
Examine and recommend optimised cost structures to support a business' performance
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More about this course

This course will show you how you can use various tools - such as Tableau and Excel - to prepare visualisations that speak to a diverse audience and ensure that your insights are used throughout your organisation.

You'll explain and compare the reporting needs of various stakeholders, and build your understanding of how you can meet those needs with the data and tools you have available

You'll learn to build reports that reflect business performance and identify and analyse varying cost types within a business

Then you'll explore how to recommend optimized cost structures that contribute to business objectives.

Grow your Excel expertise and learn to use it to streamline your work, support analysis, and create meaningful data visualizations that speak to your audience

You'll learn how to make the most of this market-leading software to make sure that your reports and presentations have maximum impact within your organisation

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Financial Analysis for Business Performance: Reporting and Stakeholder Management
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FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Introduction to the course and to financial reporting

Welcome to the course

Performance monitoring and reporting processing

Week 1 wrap-up

Financial performance reporting

Introduction

Creating performance reports

Presenting performance reports

Week 2 wrap-up

Cost types

Welcome to Week 3

Introduction to cost management

Costing methods

Week 3 wrap-up

Cost structures

Introduction

Standard costing and variance analysis

Week 4 wrap-up

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Financial Analysis for Business Performance: Reporting and Stakeholder Management
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Faculty details

Alysha Randall (CPA)
Commercially focused Finance Director / CFO with experience working with fast growth online SMEs in different sectors, including two successful exits (Amazon acquisition & Funding Circle’s IPO)

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