Programme Overview

In todays rapidly evolving and high-stakes business environment, the ability to understand financial numbers is no longer optionalit is a strategic imperative for leaders across all functions. This five-day intensive learning experience is tailored for professionals who are driving business outcomes but lack formal financial training. As organizations navigate through economic volatility, tighter capital markets, rising costs, and increasing investor scrutiny, leaders must possess the financial intelligence to make data-backed decisions, manage resources effectively, and link day-to-day operations with long-term value creation. This programme addresses that need by empowering participants with the ability to interpret financial statements, evaluate performance metrics, and assess the financial implications of strategic choices.

Programme Objective

This programme is geared to develop a deeper managerial intuition for financial concepts in business. Anchored in 91心頭利s academic rigor and industry relevance, the curriculum is designed to reflect real-world financial challenges faced by non-finance managerswhether its defending a budget, assessing the ROI of digital initiatives, managing cost centers, or aligning with enterprise-wide KPIs. Participants will engage deeply with concepts like profitability analysis, cash flow management, and capital budgeting (NPV, IRR, Payback), while also understanding how financial dashboards, cost structures, and investment logic are changing in a tech-enabled, digitized world. Participants will learn not just the what but the how and why of finance in business decision-making. The focus is on helping leaders from marketing, HR, operations, product, and supply chain functions to influence cross-functional decisions with financial clarity and accountability. In an era where businesses must do more with less, pivot fast, and justify every investment, this programme offers a critical toolkit for enhancing performance, building resilience, and leading with financial confidence.

Key Topics

The program intends to cover broad working knowledge of financial reporting, cost analysis and financial management concepts from a cross functional decision making perspective to facilitate value creation.

The programme will cover the following broad areas:

  • Understanding Corporate Financial Statements as building blocks of Financial Communication
    • Decoding Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement
  • Analysis of Corporate Financial Statements from Annual Reports
    • Overview of association between Financial statements and Market prices
    • Basic Analytical tools & techniques like Horizontal & Vertical Analysis and Financial Ratios
    • Applying the concepts and tools on real life companies data for Firm and Industry Analysis
  • Earnings Quality difference between Cash versus Profits and its importance in Business
  • Understanding & using Cost information for managerial decision making
    • Cost determination techniques like Activity based costing
    • Budgeting & Variance Analysis
    • C-V-P Analysis & Relevant Costing for optimal product decisions
  • Financial Implications of Digital Transformation
  • Sources of Capital to evaluation capital allocation
  • Cost of Capital
  • Working Capital Management & Short-term Financing
  • Capital Budgeting & Long-term Financing decisions
Programme Directors
Professor Manju Jaiswall

Professor Manju Jaiswall

Finance and Control

Who May Attend

The programme would be immensely useful for new leaders, early and mid-career professionals at all levels including functional heads, team leaders, supervisors desirous of understanding financial statements and managing costs, irrespective of their domain area of work. No prior knowledge of Finance and Accounting is required.

Programme Duration and Delivery
  • From the morning of September 08, 2025 till the afternoon of September 12, 2025
  • Face to face - classroom based
Pedagogy

Delivery would be through a balanced mix of concepts sessions, discussions, case analysis, problem solving and a project component using real firm data under mentoring for applying the learning using various financial analysis techniques.

How to Apply
  • You can apply/nominate your personnel by clicking on the Apply Now link corresponding to the particular MDP, as appearing on our online calendar available at:
  • Once the candidature(s) is (are) approved, the sponsoring authority or participant (in case of self-nomination) will be intimated over email along with a Proforma Invoice seeking programme fees in advance.
  • Programme fees can be remitted online through Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT/RTGS).
  • Upon remitting the fees online, kindly intimate CMDP office with the UTRNo. /relevant transaction details through email, so that we can connect your remittance to your nomination(s). Please note that confirmation of participation is subject to receipt of Programme fees by CMDP Office before commencement of the MDP.

For further assistance, please connect with:

Name: Ms. Payel Majumder
Number: +91 33 7121 6012
Email ID: program_mdp[at]iimcal[dot]ac[dot]in

Programme Brochure
MDP Brochure