Financial Reporting for Non Financial Managers

Managers are routinely asked to act on financial information they were never taught to interrogate. This programme builds that literacy from the statements themselves: what each one measures, how they connect, where judgement enters, and which questions expose a number that is technically correct but misleading.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Read the three primary statements and explain how they connect.
• Identify where accounting judgement materially affects a reported figure.
• Interpret common ratios in the context of the business model.
• Ask the questions that reveal a misleading presentation.

Managers and specialists without a finance background who hold budget responsibility or receive financial reporting.

Short input, then work. Across 3 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A worked analysis of a real set of published accounts.
• A personal reference sheet linking the three statements.
• A ratio set appropriate to the delegate's own sector.
• A checklist of questions for financial papers.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.