Finance: Fundamentals for Leadership Success

As a digital leader, it’s critical to understand the costs associated with implementing and maintaining digital solutions. Informed financial management and budgeting underpin the alignment of IT projects with organisational objectives, which are key to making every financial investment count. By integrating financial and budgeting knowledge, digital leaders drive value and contribute to organisational and leadership success.

What you’ll learn:

Terms and tools to guide financial decision making – learning about financial management basics will lay the foundations for effective decision making
Engage with the detail – walk through case studies to understand how analysis of figures, including variance, and applying cost-benefit analysis are all instrumental in efficient leadership
Ensure long-term success – explore how becoming aware of external factors like environmental sustainability can actually super-charge organisational achievements

Course overview

Course content

Budgeting and financial management
What is variance?
CAPEX and OPEX in an organisation
A guide to cost-benefit analysis
Sustainability and underlying costs

£36.00

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This course examines how understanding and engaging with finances and budgets is essential for any effective digital leader. We will discuss how financial insights and careful analysis of the numbers can drive an organisation forward to achieve and surpass its aims.

This course is aimed at those who want to find out more about what makes up an organisation’s finances and budgeting processes – either people who are new to finances in the context of a leadership role, first-time managers of digital teams or aspiring to move into a role involving financial decision making.