Are you a manager looking to develop foundational knowledge in finance and accounting? Do you want to better understand and improve business decisions? This course covers external financial accounting and reporting, and managerial decision-making.
Course topics
The course will give you an overview of:
- accounting concepts and terminology
- corporate governance and structure
- financial statement analysis
- working capital management
- management decision and control methods
- time-value of money
- capital investment decisions
- budget management and control
When you complete this course, you will be able to:
- understand basic accounting and finance definitions and principles
- analyze a company’s corporate governance, structure and stakeholders
- interpret relationships between a company’s financial statements
- evaluate the financial performance of a company using basic ratio analysis
- identify improvements for a company’s working capital management and cash-to-cash cycle
- recommend investment decisions that will generate the greatest returns for a company.
- evaluate a company’s budget process and control methods and recommend improvements
Course Delivery
Not available at this time.
Instructor: Laurie Dean, CPA, MBA, MSIM
Laurie Dean is a Chartered Professional Accountant with a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Science in International Management. As a professor of Accounting at Vancouver Island University, she brings over 15 years’ experience working in managerial positions in finance, administration and human resources in the public and private sector.
Her passion for teaching and coaching has led to her current career at VIU. She loves to share her knowledge in all aspects of career, business, accounting, healthy living and fitness. Laurie currently teaches courses in the Faculty of Management at VIU in Business Administration and in the Master of Business Administration Program.
Outside of work Laurie loves living on Vancouver Island where she likes to run, kayak, workout at the gym and explore the many walking and hiking trails the island has to offer.