Finance for Non-Financial Professionals – e-learning with Skillsoft

Build financial understanding and learn how financial concepts, reports and costs can be used to make better decisions, even when finance is not your primary field.

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Finance for Non-Financial Professionals is a structured learning path from Skillsoft developed for those who need financial understanding in their job without working directly with finance or accounting.

The learning path gives you insight into basic accounting, financial statements and cost management, while you develop skills in problem solving and decision making. The goal is to make it easier to understand how different activities and decisions affect the organization's finances.

What do you get out of the e-learning bundle?

Through the learning path, you can, among other things:

  • Understand basic concepts in finance and accounting
  • See how different activities in the organization can have financial consequences
  • Understand key financial statements
  • Gain insight into income statements, cash flow and balance sheets
  • Understand principles related to costs and cost management
  • Use financial information as a basis for decisions
  • Develop skills in problem solving and critical assessment
  • Use structured and analytical thinking in your daily work
  • Understand the consequences of different decision options

Who is the bundle for?

The learning path is for you if you need a better understanding of finance in your role, but don't necessarily have finance or accounting as your main responsibility.

It is particularly relevant for:

  • Managers and team leaders
  • Project managers
  • Product managers
  • Consultants
  • Subject-matter leads
  • Employees with budget or profit-and-loss responsibility
  • Anyone who wants to better understand financial reports and decision bases

Prerequisites

No formal prerequisites are specified for the learning path.

The content is developed for people who don't work directly with finance, and starts with key concepts before building toward financial analysis, problem solving and decision making.

Course content

Basics of Accounting

This part provides an introduction to basic finance and accounting and shows why financial understanding is relevant even for roles that don't work directly with finance.

4 learning resources / approx. 1 hour and 15 minutes

Financial Statements and Managing Costs

Learn to understand key financial statements and how they are used to assess the organization's finances. This part covers income statements, cash flow, balance sheets and cost management, among other topics.

6 learning resources / approx. 1 hour and 46 minutes

Computational Thinking

This part focuses on structured and analytical problem solving and how systematic thinking can be combined with human judgment to solve business challenges.

6 learning resources / approx. 1 hour and 50 minutes

Problem Solving & Decision Making

Here you learn to work more systematically with problem solving and decisions, including by assessing different options, understanding the background to decisions and seeing possible consequences.

6 learning resources / approx. 1 hour and 44 minutes