Finance for Non-Finance

CBS helps non-financial professionals understand the fundamentals of corporate finance. This enables them to interpret financial statements, analyze business performance, and make informed decisions, while strengthening their contribution to the company’s overall strategy.


List of Coaching Modules

01.Basics of the Income Statement

This MODULE presents the income statement in a simplified and efficient way. Indeed, just like the balance sheet, the income statement is a financial document that a manager can hardly overlook.
The file includes a practical guide + an Excel tool to assist in preparing the simplified income statement from the tax package.

02.Understanding the Intermediate Management Balances

They help to understand how a company's profit is generated and to assess the performance of its operations.
These are the Intermediate Management Balances, commonly referred to as.
Practical sheet including a presentation of the concept and examples + an Excel calculation tool.

03.Basics of the Balance Sheet

The balance sheet is an essential financial document, and it is important to understand and master its fundamentals.
The concept of the balance sheet is often covered, as it is part of the economic environment that a manager faces. Understanding it is an indispensable asset. The basics of the balance sheet are presented in this sheet in a simple and concise manner.
The file includes a practical guide + an Excel tool to assist in preparing the simplified balance sheet from the tax package.

04.Study of the Financial Structure of the Balance Sheet

This downloadable practical sheet guides the reader in studying a company's financial structure through indicators such as working capital, working capital requirement, and cash position.
An accompanying Excel model allows users to perform simulations and calculate the structure indicators.

05.Preparing a Forecast Budget

A first-rate management tool, the forecast budget defines economic objectives and sets the course for the coming years.
Its preparation is carried out under the supervision of the company's managers and establishes the planned projects in terms of activity and financial results.
The ZIP file includes a practical guide, an Excel forecast budget template + an example (in Excel).

06.Creating a Sales Invoice

For a company manager, the sales invoice is of paramount importance, as it brings together three essential aspects: legal, commercial, and financial. This file includes a practical explanatory guide covering both the content and format of the invoice, along with an Excel invoice template that can be customized.

07.Managing Payment Terms and Methods Between Businesses

Payment terms represent a critical issue for companies in the context of risk prevention.
It is essential to manage them effectively to guard against costly potential defaults by clients.
The ZIP file includes a practical guide and an Excel tool to calculate late payment penalties.

08.Selection and Financing of Investments

To decide on launching an investment, the entrepreneur or manager must have all the necessary information to understand the most relevant financial data. This practical sheet includes explanations illustrated with examples, as well as an Excel template for a loan repayment amortization table.

09.Calculate and Use the Break-Even Point

Among the many economic management indicators of a company, the break-even point is one of the essential tools that managers need to know.
Practical sheet including a presentation of the concept and examples, along with an Excel calculation/simulation tool.

10.Building a Dashboard

The dashboard occupies a central place among the management tools for any leader, manager, executive, or team leader.
It allows them to monitor their own activity, that of their team, department, or company. How should it be built?
Which indicators should be selected?

11.Cash Flow Forecast

Using a cash flow forecast table is essential for effective business management.
This sheet aims to explain the principles of cash flow forecasting and to provide a simple way to design and implement a cash flow forecasting tool.
Includes a ready-to-use Excel cash flow template + a practical case study.

12.Self-Financing Capacity & CFO Surplus (ETE)

Learn how to calculate and use the self-financing capacity (SFC), a management indicator that measures a company's ability to finance its investments or strengthen its equity from its net profit.
Together with the Operating Cash Surplus ("ETE"), these are the two major KPIs for assessing your company's debt capacity and repayment ability, allowing you to evaluate its solvency.
The ZIP file includes a detailed practical guide in PDF format + an Excel template to easily calculate SFC and ETE (pre-filled with an example).

13.Fixed Assets and Depreciation

Fixed assets and their depreciation are a major topic in business accounting.
Acquiring fixed assets involves investment operations that record significant and useful values on the company’s balance sheet.
This sheet presents the essential information to know. The package includes a simplified Excel tool for creating depreciation schedules.

14.How to Build Your Budget

All companies or organizations prepare (or should prepare) a budget.
Beyond the financial management aspect, it is a true management tool based on company objectives, which can be cascaded down to employees.
Our practical sheet will guide you in preparing the budget for your department or your company.

15.Negotiate Your Preferred Banking Rates

  • Understanding the components of interest rates
  • Mastering banking fee components
  • Negotiation and management of contractual clauses; selection of credit facilities and terms of use
  • Ensuring a professional relationship and maintaining a good negotiator profile with the banker, while avoiding pitfalls and abuses
  • Mastering and reducing financial charges
  • Foreign exchange risk coverage and reduction of losses

16.Automate & Secure Your Bank Reconciliation

The main objectives of this training are:

  • To become familiar with banking finance
  • Mastery of tariff components
  • Monitoring and control of bank charges
  • Handling of claims
  • Negotiation and mastery of bank terms and tariff conditions
  • Mastery of bank reconciliation

17.Manage Your International Payment Terms

  • Assimilation du concept des lettres de crédit documentaires remises documentaire/ INCOTERMS
  • Maîtriser le jeux des documents de commerce international
  • Négociation et gestion des clauses contractuelles ; choix du mode de transport et mode de reglement
  • Assurer un vis-à-vis  et un profil de bon négociateur avec son banquier et éviter les pièges et les fraudes
  • Maitriser et Réduire les charges financières des paiements et des garanties internationales
  • Couverture du risque de change et Gain de change

18.Reliable and Relevant Business Diagnostics

  • Develop your BMC and Business Plan.
  • Master financial analysis tools.
  • Conduct your analysis using a structured approach.
  • Prepare a reliable and relevant financial forecast.
  • Curative and preventive actions.

19.Banking Disputes: Unfair Termination and Excessive Rates

  • Understand the legal framework of banking disputes.
  • Identify abusive termination of banking facilities and its consequences.
  • Know the regulations on interest rates and usury.
  • Learn to analyze, prevent, and manage banking disputes.
  • Apply case law through practical examples.

20.Key KPIs for Any Business

  • Identify the most relevant KPIs for performance measurement.
  • Distinguish strategic levers from operational ones that help achieve objectives.
  • Apply the performance measurement approach.
  • Effectively and accurately develop and monitor the construction of a performance measurement dashboard.
  • Establish a performance measurement and monitoring dashboard using KPIs.

21.Levers of Standard Working Capital (BFR)

  • Understand the concept of Working Capital Requirement (WCR) and its role in financial management.
  • Identify the components of normative WCR (inventory, trade receivables, trade payables).
  • Analyze optimization levers to improve cash flow.
  • Interpret and use normative WCR as a financial management tool.

22.CAE & CDG in Service of Performance

  • Understand the role of Management Control (CDG) and Internal/External Audit (CAE) in driving performance.
  • Identify key tools and methods for monitoring and evaluation.
  • Use performance indicators to support decision-making.
  • Combine CAE and CDG to optimize organizational performance.

23.Consortium on Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

  • Develop participants' emotional and soft skills.
  • Improve self-awareness and self-management in a professional context.
  • Strengthen the ability to manage emotions, stress, and challenging situations.
  • Foster optimism, self-confidence, and effective decision-making.
  • Develop the capacity to build networks and maintain positive professional relationships.
  • Adapt behaviors to personal values and organizational goals.
  • Encourage active learning through practice, simulations, and role-playing.
  • Ensure the lasting acquisition of emotional skills for improved professional performance.
  • Enable re-employability and more effective career development.
  • Promote self-analysis, personal reflection, and identification of individual training needs.

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