Why Finance Matters™ - Building Financial Acumen

Now there’s a way to help your people develop the financial understanding they need to maximize their effectiveness, make sound business decisions, and drive bottom-line results.

Why Finance Matters, is a web-based offering from BTS, one of the world’s most trusted names in financial acumen. It delivers comprehension and on-the-job results, even for individuals who find “the language of business” a bit intimidating.

Developing Financial Acumen: An Interactive Online Experience That Fully Engages the Learner

Why Finance Matters, instruction is delivered in a story setting complete with colorful characters and full motion video. What’s more, because the learning is web-based, getting around is a simple matter of point and click.

The 11 learning modules and associated proficiency exams of Why Finance Matters address every aspect of financial acumen—from understanding income statements and balance sheets, to calculating return on investment, to constructing what-if sensitivity work-ups. In fact, one highly regarded Fortune 50 firm uses the program to develop its career financial professionals.

The Perfect Business Skills and Finance Education Launch Pad

Use Why Finance Matters to equip leaders with the financial know-how to develop business plans and budgets and make decisions that contribute to your organization’s bottom line. Already an integral part of many corporate university leadership development programs, Why Finance Matters is also an ideal foundation for executive-level case studies and strategic simulations—ensuring that participants of varying financial backgrounds enjoy a level playing field.

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Essential for Any Manager That Needs to Understand the Financial Impact of Decisions

Imagine if your salespeople were able to cost-justify their business proposals based on an intimate understanding of a prospect’s financial situation. Why Finance Matters can give them the wherewithal to do so.

For professionals charged with investing in new products and making significant technology and infrastructure commitments, Why Finance Matters provides analytic tools that assure your organization and shareholders an acceptable return. Managers will optimize the way they manage inventories, collect receivables, process transactions and extend credit to improve cash flow and return on sales. In fact, consider Why Finance Matters for any manager or knowledge worker who needs to understand the financial impacts of everyday decisions and the ripple effects across other work units.

Incorporate Your Own Business Financials in the Learning Process

All of the case examples in Why Finance Matters™ are easy for learners to grasp and then apply to their own work environment. But BTS can also customize the learning experience to include your organization’s financials as well as terminology and key performance ratios specific to your industry, your customers and your competition. The process is surprisingly quick and easy: You’ll find our consultants extremely adept at understanding your business goals and objectives..

Good News for Learning and Development Executives

Because Why Finance Matters is learner-administered, there’s no need to add to precious classroom time or search out qualified instructors.

What’s more, since it’s browser-based and delivered totally over the Web, there are no technology compatibility issues to deal with or software to load. And with secure administrator privileges, monitoring course participation and test results is as easy as point and click.

Finally, because Why Finance Matters is totally modular and available to learners 24/7, you can easily incorporate it as a prerequisite, as a just-in-time learning adjunct or as a stand-alone course offering.

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