Finance for Operations Directors

If you want to effectively head any business operation, you need to understand the numbers underlying your team’s work. Financial skills are essential for operations directors looking to improve their project management efficiency, leadership skills, and problem-solving acumen.

This finance for operations directors training course online starts with an overview of basics such as cost and investment, then proceeds to more advanced concepts like earned value analysis to solidify your mastery of operations-focused finance principles.

Highlights:

• 46 lessons
• Understand the fundamental financial concepts in business and their uses.
• Interpret data on financial reports and how these reports impact each other.
• Understand how budgets and estimates are used to plan and control costs.
• Utilize ratios and measures to gain insight into profitability and performance.
• Analyze cost behavior, track operational expenses, report on cost variance and forecast expenses.
• Delve into operations finance principles: product cost, inventory cost management, make versus buy
• Employ Earned Value analysis and forecasting for planning, scheduling and resource management.
• Earn 18.5 contact hours or PDUs toward your project management education for certification with PMI.