1: Introduction to Costing and Pricing

This course addresses the following competence(s):

  • Articulate and explain the definitions, nature and behaviour and main classifications of costs in an organisation;
  • Record costing data and prepare and present simple costing information from source data and explain its significance to stakeholders;
  • Compare and contrast pricing cost recovery strategies in the context of both commercial and public sector entities;
Module: Managerial finance
Skill Level: Beginner

2: Basic Financial Ratios and Indicators

This course addresses the following competence(s):

  • Demonstrate a general understanding of basic financial ratios and other indicators and how to interpret the results. 
Module: Managerial finance
Skill Level: Beginner

3: Monitoring Expenditure Against Budget

This course addresses the following competence(s):

  • Demonstrate an understanding of monitoring expenditure against budget, performing variance analysis and to explain the effect of variances
Module: Managerial finance
Skill Level: Beginner

4: Financial Management

This course addresses the following competence(s):

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the sources of finance, the capital structure of an entity and the cost of capital;
  • Interpret and explain organisational financial objectives and methodologies including financing and investment policies (long and short term);
  • Describe and explain the roles and responsibilities of the treasury management function in an entity and assess its contribution to effective financial management;
  • Apply capital budgeting techniques in the evaluation of capital investment decisions.
Module: Managerial finance
Skill Level: Beginner