Our face-to-face training courses are currently suspended due to Covid-19. At present, we are adapting and curating these courses to online versions, while maintaining the main elements that make them an IMA training course.
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For an organisation to succeed, managers, programme staff, fundraisers, administrators and finance staff need a thorough working knowledge of financial management skills. But by itself it is not enough. Everyone who uses finance needs to be able to communicate effectively, and also to act strategically in the financial management of their organisation. This course combines these two essentials, communication and strategy. We use a range of approaches to assist the learning: short inputs, discussions, participatory work, games and individual activities.
You will gain confidence to communicate about finance and work strategically with colleagues, accountants, donors, partners and other stakeholders. This learning is grounded in innovative research and we share practical experience of communicating finance across cultures nationally and internationally. The training provides practical resources to use in your own organisation, including Communicating Financial Management: a manual for international development workers, written by the trainer.
Duration: 5 days
The price of the course excludes VAT which may be added depending on where you live and status of organisation.
If you communicate about financial information and/or work strategically with finance, or whether you work for the UN, government, NGO or private sector, this training course helps you to use finance confidently and competently and make better decisions. The course gives you a strong working knowledge of communicating about finance and acting strategically using financial management. This gives immediate benefits, which you can take back to your own organisation as well as partner organisations.
In the practical participatory sessions you learn how to:
Day 1
Strategic finance managementDay 2
Building organisational financial capacityDay 3
Improving communication between 'finance' and 'non-finance' peopleDay 4
Improving communication with stakeholders and internationallyDay 5
Consolidating communication and strategy into organisations