The McMaster Continuing Education office will be closed for the holiday break on Wednesday, December 25, 2024. We will respond to inquiries when the office re-opens on Monday, January 6, 2025.
This two-day course will raise the level of financial literacy and acumen of the participants and enable them to use financial (and increasingly non-financial) information provided to them to make better short-term and long-term decisions in managing their organizations (or units). The course covers basic financial principles and financial management tools necessary for decision-making. Learning is achieved via examples that reinforce the basic concepts taught in the workshop. In other words, the participants are introduced to the basic language of financial reporting and guided through the basic corporate financial statements to “decode” the presented information. A financial statement is analyzed using ratios and participants then undertake to analyze another statement in groups. The connection between strategy and budgets will be explored, and the importance of time value of money in project planning will be discussed while developing pro-forma statements.
Tuesday & Wednesday, April 8 - April 16: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (Virtual)
Location:
ONLINE
Instructor:
Francesco Tristani
Notes:
This is an online course with four 3-Hour sessions.
Instructors
Francesco Tristani
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Frank Tristani is the Principal of FNT Management Services Ltd., a consulting firm specializing in management training, executive coaching and strategic planning. Previously, he spent over 30 years in the banking industry working with a major national bank. Frank is a Certified Financial Planner, a member of the Canadian Institute of Financial Planners, and a Fellow of the Institute of Canadian Bankers. He also holds a designation from the Canadian Securities Institute and a BComm from McMaster University. He has taught in-class and online courses at McMaster for the last 6 years.
