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Finance Comes Alive for All

Does financial stuff frustrate you – even scare and intimidate you – but you don’t want to let on exactly how much you don’t know about the numbers?

Or maybe you’re afraid you aren’t able to learn what they mean, because they’re so complex?

Are you expected to read quarterly financials from corporate – but you’re not sure what to do with them?

Do you know what numbers you should be looking at and why?

Do you know which accounts are good and which are bad?

Do you have to work with accounting to make sure your budget is used in the most optimal way?

Lagging behind other branches in the competition for best numbers – because you’re not sure where those “numbers” come from or how to make them better?

Are you and your accountant on the same page when you discuss income and cash?

Are you thinking like the CEO and aligned with what she or he really wants for the organization?

Are you afraid you’ll “never get it” when it comes to numbers and that you’ll have to fake it for the rest of your career life?

When the numbers intimidate you – or just don’t make that much sense – you are losing out on a valuable opportunity to manage effectively and intelligently – and to make yourself look good to your higher-ups and accounting department.

Have no fear, because Financials 101: Finance Training Camp is here!

After this two-day training camp, you will be accounting literate, able to read and analyze a balance sheet and an income statement in a single bound. And you will be able to apply what you learn in Financials 101: Finance Training Camp for Non-Financial Managers to business issues and advanced financial analysis.

You see, during your two days in Financials 101, you will build a rigorous accounting-based model of how business works. Sound difficult? It’s not. You’ll have plenty of help from our skilled instructor Peter Frampton of the company Accounting Comes Alive, as well as lots of hands-on tools that literally bring financials to life, making all these financial concepts easier to understand.

And when you understand financials better, that in turn will make you a better manager who can understand how your results and goals affect other departments and the entire company. The power of this program lies in how you will literally be able to see the big financial picture and understand where each number comes from.

What makes this course so powerful and so different – with guaranteed results – is a new visual way of explaining accounting that makes learning easy, called Color Accounting™.

SEE the Numbers—“Get” the Concepts

For hundreds of years, people have found accounting difficult to understand, because they – literally – couldn’t see how it works. And when you don’t understand accounting, your ability to understand finance and business is limited.

The new Color Accounting system changes all this by presenting accounting and financial statements in a color-coded format that makes accounting really easy to understand. The Color Accounting Framework combines a business’ balance sheet and income statement into a holistic view. The model shows how the parts of a business work together to generate value.

Benefits for YOU

Business people who use Color Accounting tell us that the visual Framework is a valuable tool that makes a big difference in how well they learn the concepts and how easy it is to apply them later when they’re back at the office.

By understanding the structure, language and movement within the Color Accounting Framework, they have more powerful conversations with staff and advisors. They avoid the usual confusion and miscommunication that come with talking about financials. Sometimes, a concept that would have been a major obstacle to communication and agreement is overcome with just the point of a finger, as you use the hands-on tools you get in this workshop to illustrate points to your team.

These new insights into finances let business people manage profitability, cash flow and working capital better. Potentially fatal mistakes are avoided, such as confusing income for cash.

Ready to sign up and gain the missing piece of your business knowledge—the vital piece that can really help you understand and take control of your career path and make you more valuable to your company? Click here to reserve your spot.

Benefits by Industry

People in an array of industries benefit from the practical, no-nonsense, accounting-based business wisdom that Financials 101: Finance Training Camp for Non-Financial Managers delivers.

Banking

Bankers naturally benefit from getting the big picture view of a bank’s business operations, including how funds flow within the bank, between divisions, and to and from clients. Pertinent concepts such as leverage are clarified for junior bankers. Senior bankers (for whom we sometimes run programs privately) get a logical and thorough framework that you can integrate with your years of practical on-the-job understanding and terminology—making it easier for you to share and communicate difficult concepts in a way that’s easy for others to understand.

Small business

Entrepreneurs learn to develop a 360-degree view of business, managing not just the operations of the business based on what you’re seeing in the income statements, but also how you should be operating based on the financing that your business needs as reported by the balance sheet. In other words, you won’t be caught off guard because you were looking at the wrong numbers. The skills you learn can make the difference between success—and bankruptcy.

Large business and corporations

Sometimes, it’s hard for managers within departments to see where they fit into the larger corporate scheme of things. If you want your managers to be able to understand where the company is going – and to be able to explain it to their teams – from a financial perspective, this workshop provides the training, the tools, and the terminology, so that they can learn about financials and teach others too. A great way to get your managers and department heads thinking about business from a more logical, financial perspective. You’ll be amazed at the difference it can make during decision-making time – and to your bottom line – when managers think like financial whizzes.

Law

For lawyers, you develop the confidence to ask probing questions in an adversarial environment and learn the right terminology, signaling to those around you that you know what you’re taking about. With a complete model of how accounting and finance work, you can rigorously review financial documents and powerfully engage accounting professionals, clients and witnesses. When you have Financials 101 training, you become more trusted as a business advisor.

Insurance

If an insurer doesn’t understand the concepts of accrual accounting, they don’t understand the business itself. “Show my people how we make money,” implored one insurance CFO. And with Color Accounting, we did just that.

Not-for-profit organizations

Not-for-profit businesses have it tough. Resources are stretched thin, operations are often far-flung, and staff – motivated by the heart – can be less interested in the money side of things. To top it off, not-for-profit accounting is more complicated than for-profit accounting. Financials 101, using the Color Accounting method, empowers staff, managers and boards of directors to understand that even not-for-profits need money to complete their core mission – and where that money comes from. This training also graphically shows funding restrictions, which enables better financial management, which will satisfy your donors and funders.

These are just a few of the many industries that can benefit from having staff who have a real understanding of the financial foundations of business. When your staff has been empowered with a better understanding of how their business works and where they fit in, you get happier, more fulfilled employees who are more likely to make a difference and generate value for owners and stakeholders.

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Seats are limited, so register soon to get the number of seats you need.

Who uses Color Accounting?

Color Accounting is used by all sorts of organizations around the world. Investment and commercial banks, insurance companies, law firms, regulators, mortgage underwriters, not-for profit organizations, government agencies, universities, and small businesses use the power of Color Accounting to empower their people with accounting-based business acumen.

“[Color Accounting] has the advantage of showing how accounting works visually. We all tend to see problems and relationships more easily visually, so the [Color Accounting] approach takes advantage of how we learn most effectively. As such, I believe that it is of value to anyone who is interested in understanding how accounting works (from high school students to undergrads to MBAs to business executives).”

Why should something so basic – and so intrinsic to the very being of your business – be so complicated to understand and shrouded in mystery? Fling back the curtain and empower yourself and your people to make better business decisions, thanks to the new financial understanding they will gain from Financials 101: Finance Training Camp for Non-Financial Managers and the Color Accounting system.

Sign up and reserve your spot today by clicking here! Space is limited for each class, so book early to get the full number of seats that you need.

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