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Online course Essentials in Finance

Explore key financial concepts and learn to apply them

  • Explore key financial concepts
  • Dive into the numbers with a learning simulation
  • Get the knowledge to make informed business decisions, and to leap into financial discussions and projects in your organization

What you will learn

Financial understanding and planning can make or break a business. So it’s vital you know how to read and understand your company’s numbers yourself – even if you work in a function like marketing, legal or HR.


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Detailed Programme

This programme is divided into 8 modules, each focusing on a different aspect of financial management.

Module 1:

Finance and accounting simulation

  • Discover how traditional business activities, financial transactions and financial statements relate to each other
  • Understand cash flow statements, profit-and-loss accounts and balance sheets
  • Learn how to calculate a number of key ratios
Module 2 to 4:

Financial statements: the balance sheet, the income statement, the cash flow statement

  • Discover how to read the story behind the numbers and gain vital information about an organization’s health
  • Understand how financials are linked to an organization’s business model
Module 5:

What financial statements reveal

  • Learn how to assess a company’s liquidity, profitability and solvency
Module 6:

Working capital management

  • Explore how managing working capital keeps organizations running smoothly
Module 7:

Working capital optimisation

  • Learn how to optimise a company’s cash position through managing inventory levels and accounts receivable and payable
Module 8:

Wrap up

  • Evaluate what you’ve learned throughout the programme
  • Plan how you will use your new knowledge and skills starting today

Learn through different learning formats

This online journey brings together learning formats including videos, interviews, questionnaires, case studies and real-life examples - alongside background reading and questions to help you reflect on your experience.

Put theory into practice

You’ll have the opportunity to put what you learn into practice and become confident at making financial decisions.

Study wherever and whenever suits you

You can start Essentials in Finance at any time – and study wherever and whenever suits you. It takes around 10 to 12 hours to complete the programme and you can split this time over a maximum of three months.

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Why this programme?
Who should attend?
Vlerick Business School Faculty

In this programme, you’ll live and learn key financial concepts – such as balance sheets, profit-and-loss accounts and cashflow statements – through hands-on examples and a simulation game. And you’ll gain the knowledge to make sound business decisions so you can leap confidently into discussions with colleagues.

  • Professionals who don’t have a background in finance
  • Professionals who want to boost their knowledge of finance fundamentals
  • Professionals who want to become more confident at having business discussions
  • Wouter De Maeseneire is passionate about explaining financial management principles by linking finance to business models and strategies.
  • Mathieu Luypaert explains how insights into financial figures and decisions can lead to value creation.

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Essentials in Finance

  • Explore key financial concepts and learn to apply them
  • Buy the programme now and you can start developing your skills and knowledge right away