Finance for PA’s & Secretaries
This course aims to provide the essential awareness and understanding of financial issues which is needed by the personal assistant to contribute in a proactive role. Awareness of important developments such as the significance of the change to International Accounting Standards will be covered.
Programme
Getting to grips with the terminology
- Demystifing accounting jargon
Review of the basic financial statements,
- Balance sheet
- Profit & Loss or income statement
- Cash flow
- What they tell you about the organisation
- How they are produced
- Why they are needed
- Legal, accounting standards, taxation
- How they inter-relate
- Who uses them and why
- An overview of the significance and impact of the change to International Accounting Standards on the financial statements
- Corporate governance and audit - an overview