Successful managers incorporate financial considerations into their everyday actions. This essential program will help you evaluate your unit's financial performance, better communicate with internal and external financial officers, and make sound financial decisions. No prior accounting or financial background is required or expected.

If you are serious about making your company more valuable, Just Enough Finance for Non-Financial Managers will teach you how to:

• Strengthen your ability to work productively with finance experts, including knowing when to require them to give clearer explanations of what they are talking about.
• Synchronize your merchandising and operating decisions with the financial demands placed on your business.
• Manage more effectively by bringing financial constraints and opportunities to the fore in everything you do.

The Zodiak Simulation

Participants in this course will be immersed in a hands-on simulation designed to provide a deeper understanding of the concepts learned.  Zodiak: The Game of Business Finance and Strategy allows participants to experience for themselves the determinants of organizational success, both financial and strategic.  Zodiak is a simulation about business – real world, how it works, why it works and when it doesn’t.  It is a powerful business simulation designed as a board game to ensure that everyone understands the “business” of your business.  It allows learners to experientially discover the big picture of how business works and how business success is measured – while having fun!