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LSE: Financial Analysis and Management Accounting

Develop a financial and managerial accounting toolkit to drive performance and internal efficiency.

Develop a financial and managerial accounting toolkit to drive performance and internal efficiency.

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8 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts May 21, 2025
Enroll by May 27, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

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8 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts May 21, 2025
Enroll by May 27, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

In today’s shifting business landscape, a functional understanding of finance and accounting has become an integral part of any influential manager’s toolkit. On the eight-week Financial Analysis and Management Accounting online certificate course from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), you’ll develop a financial and managerial accounting toolkit to drive decision making and enhance organizational performance. With a firm grounding in accounting principles, you’ll improve your ability to analyze statements, and learn how to communicate financial results to key business stakeholders.

With guidance from expert LSE faculty, you’ll discover how insights into your company’s costs, efficiencies, and profits can help create a culture of sustained improvement, and learn how delegating decision-making authority can foster a sense of responsibility in your team. Finally, you’ll assess the role of planning, budgeting, and performance targets, and explore how to design incentive, monitoring, and feedback systems that can achieve them.

Please note this course is geared towards non-financial managers and professionals from a broad range of industries and business areas. Prior knowledge of accounting is not required or expected.

This course will benefit any non-financial manager or professional seeking to develop their accounting skills and knowledge to inform strategy and improve business performance. It’s aimed at individuals with limited accounting knowledge, whether they are new or aspiring managers looking to broaden their financial skill set, business owners or entrepreneurs responsible for organizational decision making, or non-business management professionals wanting to accelerate their career progression. The course isn’t suitable for current finance or accounting professionals.

Course curriculum

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Develop the tools and knowledge to enhance your financial and managerial decision making as you work through the weekly modules of this online certificate course.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: The building blocks of financial reporting

Module 2: Financial performance assessment: The income statement

Module 3: Financial position and capital structure: The balance sheet

Module 4: Financial statement analysis

Module 5: Management accounting concepts and principles

Module 6: Delegation and control

Module 7: Measuring and incentivising profitability

Module 8: Incentives, monitoring, and feedback to drive results

About the certificate

Acquire the skills to make informed financial and managerial accounting decisions, and earn an official certificate of competence from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

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The percentage of business profit that is put at risk due to unsound financial decision making.

Gartner (2019).

Top 5 goals

Investing in and enhancing finance talent and skills is a top priority in both executive management and the finance and accounting function.

KPMG (Sep, 2019).

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