EXECTIVE EDUCATION | Communicating Financial Goals and Performance
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If you are interested in attending, click the register button, and fill out the questionnaire by the 1st of February. The link will be in your registration confirmation email. You will be notified by Mona if you are selected to attend. Please note, there are limited seats available, completing the questionnaire does not guarantee a seat.
Communicating Financial Goals and Performance Includes:
- The opportunity to work online, in real-time, alongside a Bloch instructor and your peers
- Course materials and recordings
- Certificate of participation
What You Will Learn
This workshop will utilize real-world cases to provide you with the opportunity to apply key communication strategies to move your ideas forward. This is an opportunity to develop your ability to interact with internal and external audiences with a focus on financial implications of strategic decisions.
Key Topics
- Understand “CFO speak” including terminology and financial performance metrics related to: profitability, growth, impact of project financing, risk, cost and benefits, and creating shareholder or owner value
- Convert functional area jargon into the language of finance
- The role of financial projections in decision making
- Using your business case to influence others
- Identifying drivers of success and risk
- Financial models that support the business case
- Conducting sensitivity analysis and what-if analysis
- Demonstrating alignment of strategic and financial goals
- Anticipating and dealing with pushback
- Presenting key decision points in a concise manner
Who Should Attend
Managers of all backgrounds who seek improved skills to articulate financial goals and describe performance to non-financial audiences. Managers with a non-finance background who want to learn finance jargon and “CFO speak.”
About the Instructor
Nathan Mauck is an associate professor of finance at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He teaches financial management, advanced corporate finance, financial modeling, valuation/M&A, and international finance. His primary research interests include sovereign wealth funds, mergers and acquisitions, behavioral finance, real estate, corporate social responsibility, international, and corporate finance. Nathan received his Ph.D. in finance from Florida State University and his undergraduate degree in finance from Kansas State University.
For more information: https://bloch.umkc.edu/programs/communicating-financial-goals-and-performance/
Date and Time
Wednesday Feb 3, 2021 Thursday Feb 4, 2021
February 3-4, 2021 | 8:30am-12:00pm
*Dates are subject to change
Location
All online seminars are hosted in real-time via Zoom.
You will receive the Zoom link from UMKC prior to the event.
Fees/Admission
Limited complimentary seats available exclusively for Central Exchange members.
