You don't need an accounting qualification to manage well, but you do need enough financial literacy to make credible decisions and engage meaningfully with finance.
A budget is often treated as a bureaucratic constraint, but it's really a financial plan — a tool for allocating resources, setting expectations and managing performance. This lesson reframes what a budget is and what it's for.
Financial metrics and KPIs distil complex financial reality into a few telling numbers. Used well they reveal performance and guide decisions; used badly they mislead. This lesson is about what metrics are for and how to think about them.
A business case justifies an investment or initiative by showing it makes financial sense. Getting resources approved depends on making credible business cases. This lesson covers what a business case is and what makes one persuasive.
Financial information only persuades if the audience understands what it means. Translating numbers into the meaning, story and implications behind them is the core skill of presenting finance to non-financial people.