Finance Training
An Introduction to Lammore Finance Training
‘Understanding the numbers’ is essential for both organisational success and the development of your career. Yet finance is too often viewed as a bit of a ‘dark art’; people hide behind terminology, fail to ask the right questions, and both miss opportunities and stumble into traps.
Our primary focus in designing and delivering finance training programmes is to demystify finance, whilst giving you practical tools to understand what’s going on, and inspiring a genuine interest and curiosity so that you want to understand what the numbers mean.
Our Finance for Non Finance Managers courses are designed specifically to help these groups, amongst others:
Operations managers who have budgetary, P&L or project responsibility
Sales managers who deal with big-ticket items and need to understand their customers’ financial decision making
Senior managers/directors who need to make investment decisions
Organisations who want to extend accountability for financial success to everyone
We firmly believe that financial understanding throughout an organisation can lead to far better, far smarter decisions, and far better relationships with customers, suppliers and partner organisations.
Unfortunately, in many organisations, finance is seen as rather a “dark art”. There are extensive misunderstandings between finance teams and the rest of the organisation, and non-finance managers tend to shy away from financial concepts. This makes it tougher to link operational decision-making with financial understanding.
Finance courses are often approached with rather a lot of trepidation. A combination of expectations about being bored and bamboozled at the same time tends to put people off!
At Lammore, we hold true to our guiding principles to Inspire, Entertain and Make a Difference on our finance programmes just as we do on all our other programmes.
Financial understanding is essential for anyone in any sort of operation where commercial or budgetary decisions need to be made. People who understand the basic principles can ask better questions, gain clearer insights, evaluate options coherently, and ultimately be more successful.
Classroom
Our core classroom financial management training programme is an interactive two-day session building from understanding the basics of the P&L, balance sheet and cashflow statement (as well as your internal financial reports), through core financial terminology, and on to analysis of the numbers so you can read the story behind them.
Online
Our online financial training programme covers the same material as our classroom courses, but through self-guided online material full of video content, real-world examples, and exercises to complete. It’s delivered in plain language, explains financial stories that you’ll have heard in the news, and shows, honestly, just how interesting finance can be.
Blended
Combining the best of interactive, tutor-led classroom training with the flexibility of online learning, our blended finance training programmes put lively online material together with regular 90 minute live sessions with your tutor (and your fellow learners). This enables the development of a very practical, hands-on understanding of finance and the decisions it can drive.