
A Full day Corporate Training Programme on Finance for Non-Finance Executives conducted by Dr. Saptarsi Dev, Managing Director, Accenture, was organized by MCCI today.
Dr. Saptarsi Dev carries with him 20 years of rich experience in the area of business finance and technology consulting, with a strong track record of driving business growth and providing business value. He has strong technology and consulting experience on Finance, Supply Chain, Projects Operations and Reporting space.
The programme was designed to enable professionals, especially from functional areas other than finance such as sales, marketing, human resource, research and development, production, procurement and other to gain an extensive working knowledge of critical financial principles in an easy-to-follow manner, enabling them to make critical business decisions involving cost-savings, budgets, new projects decisions, financial planning, growth strategies besides others.
“Finance for non-finance is important as it will help the non-finance executive to take the decisions, as it helps to analyze the financial statements, understanding how to analyze the costs and benefits and how to reduce costs and implement in a more meaningful way to help the company make profit. It also helps to forecast and to take the corrective action for the future if required, and the most important is that it helps the managers to evaluate the projects where the company is investing in.” – said Dr. Dev.
“For non-financial executives, to learn the financial concepts are a great way to improve the skills and abilities of managing the financial aspects of a business entity. Most Companies prefer hiring those executives who have the basic knowledge of finance, in fact we all are decision makers in our own rights and to take the right decision, an understanding of Finance is important.” – Shri Rishabh C. Kothari, President, MCCI
Over 75 Professionals across sectors and verticals participated in the programme. Dr.Saugat Mukherjee, Director General, MCCI have moderated the Corporate Training Programme during the Session .
Participants got the opportunity to understand and analyse financial statements as well as grasp the basic fundamentals of finance.
The training programme covered Capital Budgeting and Financial Forecasting, Working Capital and Cash Flow Management, Ratio Analysis, Financial MIS etc.