Finance, Accounts and Budgets for Secretaries and PAs

This practical 1-day course has been designed to explain the purpose, jargon and uses that managers make of your company's accounts.

Delegates will feel comfortable with how accounts actually work, how they are used, and will be more able to assist their managers who work with financial information

Finance is an integral part of any business. Decisions that are made on a daily basis, by both management and staff in your company, will either have a positive or a negative effect on its financial health.

As a busy Secretary or PA, your additional responsibilities often include assisting your manager in making the business a success. Knowing what financial information is important, including how to interpret it, will enable you to provide your manager with vital information quickly - ultimately making his/her job easier.

Gain a clear understanding of how financial and accounting principles work, and become more efficient - both in your supporting and functional role as a secretary/PA.

This intensive 1-day course will include:

• Fundamental terms and accounting jargon, what they really mean and how to use them when producing reports and documents
• A step by step build up of the logic behind financial statements, and why each section is important to management
• How managers make use of financial information to make business decisions, indicate performance and warn of potential problems
• What the logic is behind costs and costings, and how profit in a company is achieved, maintained and recorded in the accounts
• Why budgets are so important to a company, and how they can be laid out to assist those using and monitoring them on an ongoing basis
• Why so many people are concerned with cash flow, and how anything that can be done to improve cash flow will help a company's stability and results