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Finance & Accounting for I/T Professionals

Objective: To provide IT Professionals with an understanding of key principles in accounting, financial management, budgeting and project analysis. Note – This course features SEVERAL CASE STUDIES that allow participants to apply these principles immediately. The case studies are based solely on I/T examples.

Target Audience: IT Professionals who want a better understanding of important financial principles.

Focus:
• Interpreting Financial Statements
• Budgeting Principles
• Present and Future Value
• Project Justification
• Break Even Point
• Understanding Accounting Terminology

Class Requirement – A solar type calculator with the exponential function on it.

The Instructor – Joy Hajduk-DeGraff
Joy has worked as a consultant with Merrill Lynch advising mid-sized businesses. She currently advises business owners on the value of their businesses. She has completed over 350 of these valuation analyses. Joy has an MBA in Finance from DePaul University. Participants appreciate her enthusiasm and her ability to make her topics informative and interesting.

Program Details:

Understanding Financial Statements
- Income Statement
- Balance Sheet
- Statement of Net Worth
- Break-Even Analysis

Project Justification
- Determining the True Benefit
- Convincing the Decision Maker
- Project Costs
- Impacts of Time

Budgeting
- Categories of Expenses
- Managing Your Budget
- Fixed / Variable IT Expenses
- The True Expense of Turnover

Present and Future Value Analysis
- Benefits of This Analysis
- Calculating Present Value
- Calculating Future Value
- Discounted Cash Flow Analysis

Keys to Successful Financial Analysis
- Trend Analysis
- Working Capital
- Current Ratio

Assets
- Current Assets
- Fixed Assets
- Intangible Assets

Finance and Accounting for IT Professionals is SPECIFICALLY TAILORED to Information Technology. All of the examples and case studies are based on situations that are commonly encountered by those in IT.

This program features extensive hands-on case studies of Budgeting and Project Justification scenarios. Working through these examples will GREATLY help participants when they face these same issues on the job.

Program Length: 2 Days

Professional Skills are the KEY to the Effective Application ofTechnology to the Business Process.

Contact Sandy Gaston at sandy@omicron.edu or 404-255-0096 for information, scheduling, and fees.