Accounting for Investment and Managerial Decision-Making Online Certificate Course
Holborn, United Kingdom
DURATION
8 Weeks
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
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TUITION FEES
USD 2,866
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Key Summary
Introduction
Gain a suite of financial and managerial accounting tools to drive better management and performance.
Develop a financial and managerial accounting toolkit to drive performance and internal efficiency.
In today’s shifting business landscape, a functional understanding of finance and accounting has become an integral part of any influential manager’s toolkit. On the eight-week Accounting for Investment and Managerial Decision-Making online certificate course from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), you’ll develop a financial and managerial accounting toolkit to drive decision-making and enhance organisational performance. With a firm grounding in accounting principles, you’ll improve your ability to analyse statements, and learn how to communicate financial results to key business stakeholders.
With guidance from expert LSE faculty, you’ll discover how insights into your company’s costs, efficiencies, and profits can help create a culture of sustained improvement, and learn how delegating decision-making authority can foster a sense of responsibility in your team. Finally, you’ll assess the role of planning, budgeting, and performance targets, and explore how to design incentive, monitoring, and feedback systems that can achieve them.
Please note this course is geared towards non-financial managers and professionals from a broad range of industries and business areas. Prior knowledge of accounting is not required or expected.
This Accounting for Investment and Managerial Decision-Making online certificate course is certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service and may be applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional bodies. The course has an estimated 70 hours of learning.
Note: should you wish to claim CPD activity, the onus is on you. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and GetSmarter accept no responsibility, and cannot be held responsible, for the claiming or validation of hours or points.
An Online Education That Sets You Apart
This LSE online certificate course is delivered in collaboration with online education provider GetSmarter. Join a growing community of global professionals who've already had the opportunity to:
- Gain verifiable and relevant competencies and earn invaluable recognition from a world-leading social science university, entirely online and in your own time.
- Enjoy a personalised, people-mediated online learning experience created to make you feel supported at every step.
- Experience a flexible but structured approach to online education as you plan your learning around your life to meet weekly milestones.
This course is presented entirely online, in collaboration with the leader in online education, GetSmarter. View the Accounting for Investment and Managerial Decision-Making online certificate course to find out about upcoming course dates, the course price, and more.
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Ideal Students
Is this course for you?
The course is geared towards non-financial managers and professionals from a broad range of industries and business areas who want to learn accounting to effectively analyse business problems, make better decisions, and communicate results to drive organisational and financial performance. This online certificate course is designed for professionals with limited accounting knowledge and would be beneficial to new or aspiring managers who need to upskill to inform decision-making. This course may also appeal to business owners and entrepreneurs who need to manage the performance of their businesses, as well as non-business management professionals who seek a better grounding in accounting for career progression.
Program Outcome
You’ll walk away with:
- A firm understanding of financial and managerial accounting concepts and principles will enable you to make better business and investment decisions for improved organisational performance.
- The ability to analyse financial statements and effectively communicate financial results to key business stakeholders.
- An overview of topics such as management control, decision-making authority, and the know-how to foster responsibility and establish accountability for results.
- Cutting-edge behavioural economics insights on creating systems of incentives, monitoring, and feedback to achieve organisational performance targets.
Curriculum
Over the duration of this online short course, you’ll work through the following modules:
- Module 1: The building blocks of financial reporting
Discover the key insights that underpin accounting practices. - Module 2: Financial performance assessment: The income statement
Use the income statement as a window to the financial performance of a company. - Module 3: Financial position and capital structure: The balance sheet
Use the balance sheet as a window to a company's financial position and capital structure. - Module 4: Financial statement analysis
Use ratios and market information to analyse financial statements. - Module 5: Management accounting concepts and principles
Gain insight into the costs, efficiency, and profit of a company, and explore how to create a sustainable culture for improved performance. - Module 6: Delegation and control
Explore the delegation of decision-making authority to foster personal and team responsibility among employees. - Module 7: Measuring and incentivising profitability
Explore precisely measuring profit, and set budgets and targets that fit an organisation's risk-reward profile. - Module 8: Incentives, monitoring, and feedback to drive results
Gain insight into how to create systems of incentives, monitoring, and feedback to drive results in an organisation.
Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during course development.
Will I have the time?
GetSmarter's learning model is designed to help you, as a working professional, improve your skills without compromising on work and family responsibilities. The course is broken up into weekly, manageable modules, with incremental deadlines, devised to help you pace yourself over the duration of the course and allow you the flexibility to work when it suits you best. You also have access to your Success Manager, who will help you set goals, track key milestones, manage your time, and field any administrative enquiries you might have.
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