Finance for Managers
Understand. Decide. Lead.
Sagora's Finance for Managers is a premium executive education programme designed for managers and business leaders. Across 5 modular sessions you will learn how to interpret financial language, manage your budgets, assess your projects, and convert complicated numbers into clear, strategic, and effective decisions.
Public
This programme is intended for managers, senior executives, financial officers, and strategic decision-makers from both the private and public sectors in Luxembourg, Belgium, and Eastern France, who are looking to gain decision-making autonomy and financial leadership.
Objectives
Choose the sessions according to your needs and goals, or take the complete programme:
- Financial Diagnosis and Planning → Interpret your financial statements and manage your margins.
- Budgeting and Planning in Excel → Develop reliable, strategic budgets.
- Management Control and Cost Analysis → Optimise your performance and control your costs.
- Investment Criteria and Decisions → Asses profitability and secure your projects.
- Company Valuation and Financing → Understand a company's value and its financing levers.
Why should you register?
By joining Finance for Managers, you will gain:
- Independence → Understand your numbers without relying on external expertise.
- Clear Decision-Making → Transform complexity into simple, relevant choices.
- Enhanced Leadership → Speak the language of financiers with assurance and credibility.
- Increased Confidence → Make decisions calmly, even in critical situations.
- Strategic Vision → Link your financial decisions to sustainable performance.
- Concrete Operational Tools → Immediately apply methods and best practices to your budgets and projects.
- Agility in Uncertainty → Guide your decisions, even in an unstable market environment.
- Increased Influence → Convince your teams, partners, and shareholders with robust, data-backed arguments.
- Time Savings → Read and interpret your financial statements faster and with accuracy.
- Creation of Lasting Value → Turn your financial decisions into drivers of growth and competitiveness.
"Business leaders need to have a global view of the business, and that includes the ability to talk to the CFO. Not understanding finance can lead to costly yet avoidable decisions. Our programme helps our participants gain the confidence needed to navigate the financial world."
- Mathias SCHMIT, Professor of Finance and creator of the programme
Content
Module 1 : Diagnostic and financial planning
Master the basics of financial management
Learn how to analyse financial statements to better manage your company's resources, and how to present your figures clearly.
Module 2 : Budgeting and financial planning in Excel
Master budgeting tools
Learn how to use Excel to model your company's finances, manage your budget and plan accurately.
Module 3 : Management control and cost analysis
Understand and control your costs effectively
Learn how to identify the different types of costs and how they influence business performance.
Module 4 : Investment criteria and decisions
Make informed investment decisions
Find out how to compare projects and choose the most profitable ones for your business.
Module 5 : Business valuation and financing
Prepare for interviews with investors
Learn how to value a business and structure the necessary financing in a solid way to convince investors.
Professors associated with the training
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FAQ
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The programme is for executives, directors, operational heads, and non-financial managers who wish to master financial language and make better strategic decisions.
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Greater autonomy with numbers, a better understanding of financial statements, the ability to challenge your financial counterparts, and enhanced leadership.
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The programme is structured into five complementary modules: financial diagnosis and planning, budgeting and planning, management control, investment decisions, and company valuation and financing.
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Because it combines academic rigour with practical, real-life case studies tailored to both local and international contexts, and it is specifically designed for the executive education of managers and directors.
Did you know?
We are INFPC approved. As a Luxembourg company, you may therefore benefit from substantial co-financing for your continuous training via Luxembourg Lifelong Learning. For more information, click here.
