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This Autumn 2022, Facilitated Workshops will be a blended format. Some classes will be via the IMI Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) to your desktop, and some classes will be onsite at the IMI campus in Dublin.
Dates are as follows:
10, 11, 12 October 2022 – In person
14, 15 & 16 November 2022 – Virtual
09, 10 & 11 January 2023 – In person
20, 21 & 22 February 2023 – Virtual
03, 04 & 05 April 2023 – Virtual
15, 16 & 17 May 2023 – In person
26 & 27 June 2023 – In person
Why choose this programme?
Do you want to find the facts behind the figures?
IMI’s Professional Diploma in Business Finance will allow you to understand, interpret and contribute to your organisation’s financial planning and strategy.
You will work with experienced finance specialists and business practitioners to develop knowledge and competence in key areas of finance.
Analyse
Discover tools to analyse and understand financial accounts.
Understand
Develop a new financial vocabulary to contribute more towards practical day-to-day activity of your business.
Apply
Complete a company project that will comprehensively analyse a financial issue.
Programme Director
Cormac LuceyCormac is a chartered accountant with experience in industry, banking and corporate finance in both Ireland and continental Europe who has previously worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rabobank Frankfurt and the Department of Justice. He is the author of Plan B - How Leaving the Euro Can Save Ireland and a co-author of The Business Compass - Perspectives on Business Ethics, and writes weekly columns on economics in the Irish edition of the Sunday Times. Cormac has also worked in Irish government for several years as special advisor to the deputy prime minister (Tánaiste).
You can look forward to:
Case study analysis
You will discuss real-life case studies relating to business finance.
Input from specialist practitioners
You can expect expert input from practitioners in areas like venture capital, acquisition strategy, cash management and treasury.
Networking with a diverse class group
You will work closely with your class colleagues in team activities and organised study groups and will leave the programme with a valuable network of business contacts.
Extra tutorials and personal feedback
This is to ensure that any difficulties you may encounter on the programme are addressed and overcome.
Programmes themes
- Understand your organisation’s key financial statements: income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.
- Critically examine financial statements and learn how to assess company performance analysis.
- Learn what drives costs and about the different costing systems that are appropriate to organisations of varying operational complexity.
- Enhance your ability to make costing and management decisions, including recommendations for restructuring.
- Use costing to determine whether your organisation should produce a product or service internally, or buy it in from an external source.
- Understand the key strategic and financial elements of a good business plan and deploy them in practice.
- Appreciate the similarities and differences of budgets and business plans.
- Explore how to assess investment proposals.
- Enhance your ability to deliver greater shareholder value and divisional financial performance through investment decisions that boost shareholder value.
- Learn how to optimise the management of working capital.
- Learn how to apply financial practices such as discounted cash flow and the capital asset pricing model to value any company.
- Apply the factors that drive corporate valuation to better boost the value of your own organisation.
- Communicate your financial knowledge and acumen through enhanced report writing and verbal skills.
- Explore research methodologies to best assess financial performance in a variety of contexts.
Key takeaways
Financial Vocabulary
Develop a financial vocabulary and deal comfortably with finance questions as they arise on the job.
Strategic Conversations
Talk at the highest levels. Understand all major financial topics as they relate to the practical day-to-day activity of your business.
Decision Making
Analyse, understand and leverage value out of financial accounts. Project budgets, analyse capital expenditure decisions and critically examine corporate finance transactions.
What our graduates say
The Professional Diploma in Business Finance was extremely comprehensive and has greatly increased my knowledge of finance. I would highly recommend it to any business people from a non-finance background.
Peter LaganDirector, Lagan Investments Ltd
