In this eight-week online program taught by Chicago Booth Professor Haresh Sapra, you'll acquire the tools and frameworks to interpret financial statements to better understand the financial performance and health of an organization.
This program is in partnership with Global Alumni.
Today’s unpredictable and fast-changing business world requires executives from every level to have a solid understanding of core finance and accounting principles to make impactful business decisions. Practical financial decision-making is critical to an organization’s ability to combat competition, make strategic growth decisions, and create shareholder value.
You’ll discover key concepts such as interpreting balance and income statements, cash flow principles, asset and liability analysis, and risk and forecasting tools - all to make more impactful financial decisions. You’ll acquire the tools to quantitatively evaluate choices and how these choices affect your institution’s incentives and resources. This program offers a practical guide to using financial instruments when making allocation decisions, and are immediately applicable to you and your organization.
By attending this program, you will:
This program is designed for mid- senior managers from across an organization, within a wide-range of industries, who do not have formal training in finance and accounting and wish to develop or update their knowledge of core finance and accounting principles.
This program will also benefit those in professions such as consultants, scientists, engineers, healthcare, small- medium size business owners, and other professionals who want to increase their financial acumen to make better business decisions.
Sapra has won numerous teaching awards in all the programs at Booth. Sapra has been named one of the top-ranked professors in BusinessWeek's Guide to the Top Business Schools. Sapra has also the Ernest R. Wish Accounting Research Award for his paper "Do Mandatory Hedge Disclosures Discourage or Encourage Excessive Speculation?"
Sapra earned a PhD in Business Administration in 2000 from the University of Minnesota and then joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 2000.
Sapra is an accomplished runner who has competed in over thirty marathons with a personal best time of 2:53:06.
Introduction to Accounting and the Accounting Process
The Profit & Loss Statement
Asset Analysis
The Liability Analysis
Analyzing Financial Statements
Introduction to Valuation
To register for this cohort, please contact our partner, Global Alumni, at execedon@chicagobooth.edu.