Entrepreneurs and successful managers do not only have to apply entrepreneurial thinking in their daily business but also have to understand the financial relations within a company in order to achieve long-term success for their companies.

The Applied Finance: Skills & Tools course is a worldwide unique course that aims to make students start loving financial analysis. It helps participants to improve rapidly and extremely quickly their finance skills and develop a good understanding of financial statements of well-known companies.

Participants work on P&L statements, Balance Sheets, Cash Flows, Key Performance, Ratios and Financial Reports of real industrial firms and their connection to strategy, business operations and corporate results. This worldwide unique course sharpens finance know-how of participants and equip them with the skills to understand important financial KPIs of industrial companies and their performance.

• Develop a practical and solid understanding of financial statements.
• Learn which are the most important financial KPIs of companies.
• Learn how to analyze companies’ financial reports based on these KPIs and evaluate companies’ performance.
• Understand basic functions of stock markets.