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Financial Accume for Strategic and Leadership Roles

Overview

Finance and Accounting acumen is the key to successful leadership roles for the non-finance executives. Often non finance executives overlook the finance and accounting details while dealing with finance team and business decisions. Finance and Accounting acumen brings in the critical, complete, and complementary perspectives to the thinking process. Finance is not only about the numbers and compliances its far deeper and broader encompassing the implications of technical, operational, strategic, marketing, behavioral, and human dimensions. While business acumen is key to successful business, finance acumen has been the proven source of competitive advantage and long-term success and growth of high-performance business and startups. Business managers and entrepreneurs with complete perspective encompassing finance and accounting will be more competent for the chief officer’s, strategic and leadership roles.


Objectives

To develop finance and accounting acumen to assume leadership, strategic and entrepreneurial roles. Equip for CXO, CMO, CEO, CFO, COO roles. Empowering for C suit level readiness. Gain out of box and critical insights in finance and accounting, and business value creation. Enhance strategy execution skills.


Content

  1. Evolving role of finance function and CFO
  2. Evaluating Investment proposal beyond obvious
  3. Financing Strategy, capital structure and Enterprise Value
  4. Strategic Working Capital Management
  5. Dividend decisions and firm value
  6. Measuring and managing cost and Performance
  7. Beyond Budgeting
  8. Behavioral biases in decision making.
  9. Risk Intelligence for value creation
  10. Goal congruent and empowering Management Control.

For Whom

Executives in leadership roles, aspirants of CXO, CEO, CMO, COO, and CEO roles. Operations, marketing, procurement, manufacturing, HR and other non-finance domain Sr executives, Entrepreneurs, Investors and Fund Managers, Investment bankers, Senor finance professionals, board members, Professional in Governance role


Enquiry and Registrations

Management Development Programmes (MDP) Office

Indian Institute of Management Indore
Prabandh Shikhar, Rau-Pithampur Road
Indore 453556, Madhya Pradesh, INDIA

Email : mdp@iimidr.ac.in
Tel. : +91-731-2439750, 2439752, 2439753, 24397544
Fax : +91-731-2439800

February 03-06, 2026
Venue: Indore

Programme Fees

₹72,000

GST, as applicable, will be additional

Programme Coordinator

Prof Keyur B. Thaker

Email: keyurt@iimidr.ac.in

Phone: +91-731-2439537


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