The London School of Economics and Political Science

Managerial Finance

Gain a practical understanding of your organisation's financial health to make informed decisions regarding investments and management.

Start date

29 January 2025

Price

$3,065 USD

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Course duration

6 weeks

Excluding orientation

Language

English

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Effort

8–12 hours per week

Self-paced learning online

ABOUT THIS COURSE

Course overview

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Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)

For business leaders and managers to drive organisational success, they must have a solid financial understanding. Finance is a crucial component that helps professionals understand how an organisation operates. This requires a commercially-minded approach to participate in financial discussions and decision-making.

The Managerial Finance online certificate course offered by LSE is designed to provide a practical grounding in modern finance. This six-week online certificate course equips participants with the necessary tools to understand corporate finance, financial statements and reports, and finance fundamentals, such as money's time value. Additionally, participants will learn how to apply these concepts to their specific business context through forecasting methods, project evaluation, realistic performance plans, and monitoring financial outcomes.

By enhancing their financial insight, participants can increase their managerial impact and make more informed contributions to organisational discussions and decisions. This is a valuable opportunity to improve financial acumen and advance career prospects.

Is this course for you?

As individuals advance to higher positions within an organisation or management, their responsibilities usually require more financial responsibility. This online certificate course centres on delivering crucial knowledge and competencies in corporate finance to managers who don't have a financial background. It caters to anyone in a leadership or managerial position and those with ambitions to become one. You'll enhance your business intelligence while gaining a hands-on comprehension of the interplay between a firm's finances and its non-financial units and ventures.

This course is certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service, and may be applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional bodies. The course has an estimated 65 hours of learning.

Note: should you wish to claim CPD activity, the onus is upon you. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and GetSmarter accept no responsibility, and cannot be held responsible, for the claiming or validation of hours or points.

Course overview

Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)

What will set you apart

On completion of this course, you’ll walk away with:

The confidence to contribute to financial discussions and decision-making.

A financial toolkit for the modern business environment that empowers you to make more strategic managerial and business decisions.

The ability to understand financial reports, analyse the financial health of any organisation, and forecast for future success.

Unlimited access to edX’s Career Engagement Network, offering you exclusive resources and events to support your professional journey and drive your career forward.

Course curriculum

Develop essential financial skills and learn to recognise potential business opportunities through the weekly modules of this online certificate course.

Orientation Module

Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1

Financial statement analysis

Module 2

Financial forecasting

Module 3

Discounted cash flow analysis

Module 4

Optimal investing

Module 5

Funding strategies

Module 6

Valuing entire companies

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What past students
think

Zehra Khan

Global Director of Finance and Operations, Zoom Enterprises

The course is very well designed, moving seamlessly from fundamentals to technical. It has become a constant source of reference at work. Anyone keen to understand finance should take this course.

Course Convenor

The design of this online certificate course is guided by LSE faculty, as well as industry experts, who will share their experience and in-depth knowledge with you throughout the course. View the prospectus to see all the industry thought leaders featured on this course.

Professor Dirk Jenter

Professor of Finance, Department of Finance, LSE

About the certificate

Enhance your understanding of managerial finance through a six-week online certificate course and receive an official certificate of competence from LSE.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.

Your digital certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you upon successful completion of the course, as per the stipulated requirements.

LSE Managerial Finance online certificate course certificate

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