1. To be the financial manager * Professional acknowledge and proactive * Ready for the future development * Financial Manager’s creativity and innovativeness
2. Overview of the financial manager’s job * How a financial manager fits in business * Understand financial managership functions and organization relationships * Know elements necessary for success as a financial manager
3. Leadership of financial manager’s jobs * Team management * Core keys for a financial manager: communication and leadership * Understand employee training and development
4. The basic professional of financial manager * Understand how to establish an effective reporting system * Know how to create effective reports * Understand the corporate planning cycle * Comprehend the controller’s role in strategic planning * Understand capital expenditure forecasting, evaluation and control * Use value-added processes * Understand cash flow forecasting * Understand operating forecasting
5. Technical aspects of financial manager’s job * Know how to evaluate shareholder expectations * Control and administer operating budgets * Identify the different types of audits * Establish the internal auditing processes * Understand accounting controls and procedures * Discuss various issues facing controllers
6. Information technology of financial manager’s job * Understand enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) * Discuss developments in electronic commerce (EC) and business-to-business (B2B) trading * Work with relational databases and accounting systems * Use information security and control * Understand reengineering and automation * Effective information systems implementation