Empower your decisions with financial confidence

Are you a manager, entrepreneur, or team leader without a finance background? This course equips you with practical financial knowledge to drive smarter decisions and improve business outcomes. Delivered by Grant Thornton experts, our Finance for Non-Finance Professionals programme is tailored to help you understand financial concepts and bridge the gap between management and finance.

Who is this programme for?

This one-day course is aimed at experienced professionals in managerial or leadership roles who lack experience or confidence in dealing with finance matters. It is ideal for:

  • Managers and team leaders looking to interpret financial data effectively.
  • Entrepreneurs seeking to manage business budgets and cash flow.
  • Professionals preparing for strategic roles requiring financial insights.

What will they learn?

This programme will help you to:

  • Evaluate scenarios, modelling and identify financial strategy trends, applying economic theory to decision- making and evaluate financial and non-financial information.
  • Critically assess the impact of legal requirements and procurement strategies in delivering effective governance.
  • Assess the development, underpinning assumptions and monitoring of financial strategies and organisational budget setting based on resource allocation and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

Key facts

Duration

1 Day

Provider

Grant Thornton

Entry requirements

No prerequisites 

Schedule

A combination of expert-led sessions, hands-on group exercises, and real-world case studies to build practical financial skills in budgeting, forecasting, and decision-making—without the jargon.

Delivery

Online or at Grant Thornton, 8 Finsbury Circus, London EC2M 7EA (Alternative locations across the UK available by agreement).

Fees

From £900 per learner

Key benefits

“We will spend our time together helping to develop your knowledge of some of the financial tools and methods that might help you in your roles as managers or leaders. This will include a focus on financial strategies and the setting of organisational budgets, as well as the governance and legal requirements associated with financial management and reporting. You will learn how to critically assess methods for analysing financial data and information required to make strategic decisions.”
Andy Mack Head of Audit Quality, Grant Thornton

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