When your managers receive the financial statements of your company, what might they be looking at, if anything?
Do you believe they feel at ease with reading financial information?
Do they understand the information well enough to answer the questions of their employees? …questions from newspaper articles perhaps?


All business decisions have financial implications.

Do your managers fully understand the financial consequences of their business decisions?
Are you aware that 70% of fatal errors in management are due to a poor understanding of financial concepts?
(Why business go bankrupt in Canada, Statistics Canada, April 1998)

How much training time does your company spend on making sure basic financial concepts are understood by all key managers? Is this aspect of management training a priority for you?….Can we help?

Our program Managing and Financing Independent Business - seven causes of fatal business errors – special session for large corporations, reviews the financial concepts all managers of large corporations should be aware of. More importantly, it offers a methodology and tools to assess the financial consequences of most business decisions.

The content? Among other, participants learn the content and purpose of financial statements, how banks and other lending institutions analyse financial statements – what they are looking at, the limits and challenges of growing a business, the importance of increased efficiencies and finally, cost control and some pricing issues.

This workshop is tailor-made to meet the needs of different industry sectors with custom made case studies and examples that are adapted to a particular industry.

In 15 hours your managers have in hand all the tools they need to evaluate most operational and strategic business decisions.

Anyone taking part in business decisions will benefit from this program. We certainly recommend it to all managers in large corporations. It is also an interesting training activity for your management group. They learn as a team how to evaluate financial consequences in their business unit.

This seminar will benefit manufacturing companies, retail and service industries as well as professionals.

Developed over 20 years ago in the United States, this program of now offered on three continents and in several languages. Over 50 000 participants have followed the program in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe. 90 % rate it as excellent and state that the tools learned are practical and immediately applicable.

First develop to meet the needs of small and medium size businesses, it was adapted some 10 years ago to meet the needs of large organisations. Example of clients includes: Hydro Quebec, AT&T, and many associations and governmental organisations.