Finance for Non-financial Professionals II
Go beyond understanding financial information. Learn how to use it to control costs, evaluate opportunities and make decisions that improve profitability and business performance.
Turn Financial Knowledge into Better Business Performance
Understanding the numbers is an important first step. Knowing what drives them, and how to influence them, is where leaders can make a real difference.
Back by popular demand, Finance for Non-financial Professionals II builds on foundational financial knowledge to help participants understand the internal factors that impact profitability. Through practical analysis and real-world business applications, you’ll explore how managers use financial information to control costs, evaluate investments, allocate resources and improve organizational performance.
Whether you’ve completed Finance and Accounting for Non-financial Professionals or developed a financial foundation through professional experience, this course will help you put that knowledge to work.
Two in-person days
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
March 31-April 1, 2027
TCU Neeley School of Business, Fort Worth, Texas
Fee: $1,895* covers all course materials and breakfast, lunch and refreshments.
Certificates will be awarded based on successful completion of the two-day program.
*Discounts are available for groups of three or more and for TCU Executive Education alumni. Please contact neeleyexeced@tcu.edu for details.
Skills and Insights You Can Apply
- Understand What Drives Profitability: Analyze fixed, variable and mixed costs to identify opportunities to improve financial performance.
- Make Smarter Operating Decisions: Use cost-volume-profit analysis and cost allocation to evaluate alternatives and understand their financial impact.
- Evaluate Investments with Greater Confidence: Apply time value of money and capital investment analysis to assess potential returns and support resource allocation decisions.
- Measure Business Performance: Use return on investment and other financial measures to assess results and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Manage Cash Flow More Effectively: Understand how cash flow affects business operations and informs financial decisions.
- Strengthen Budgeting and Cost Control: Apply financial analysis to manage resources, control costs and improve organizational profitability.
Is This Course Right for You?
This course is designed for experienced professionals who have a foundational understanding of finance and want a deeper understanding of the key internal factors that impact profitability, and how to use that knowledge to improve organizational performance.
Ideal participants include:
- Managers and directors responsible for budgets, operating costs or departmental performance
- Professionals in operations, marketing, human resources and other non-financial functions whose decisions affect profitability
- Leaders who evaluate investments, allocate resources or make decisions with financial implications
- Past participants in Finance and Accounting for Non-financial Professionals who want to build on their knowledge and apply more advanced financial analysis
Prior completion of Finance and Accounting for Non-financial Professionals is recommended but not required. Participants should have a basic understanding of financial concepts and accounting principles.
Meet Your Faculty Leader:
Instructor III
Janice Cobb has been teaching at the TCU Neeley School of Business since 1997. She teaches a broad range of classes to TCU undergraduate students, TCU MBA student and various levels of managers.
Janice requires students to practice critical thinking in all courses she teaches. She has extensively studied the critical thinking process and recently published a dissertation on how to use the critical thinking process to make supportable accounting decisions and has taught this method through custom programs with organizations like JTaylor, an accounting, consulting and assurance company.
Prior to coming to TCU, she managed cost reimbursable contracts at Lockheed Corporation, worked as an auditor for a large public accounting firm, served as compliance officer and controller for a fast-growing hedge fund, and served as corporate controller of a public company and chief financial officer of a privately held distribution company.
She earned a BBA, an MBA, as well as her Doctorate of Higher Education Leadership at TCU.
Key Contact:
Director of Executive Program Development