Finance for Non-Financial Managers, offered by the LSU Continuing Education's Management & Leadership Institute, is a follow-up program to LSU's Fundamentals of Supervision program. This interactive, two-day seminar is designed to provide basic financial statement analysis. This program gives supervisors and mid-managers who do not have an accounting background, the ability to analyze data and prepare ratios to make better fiscal decisions. Our instructors will help demystify financial jargon and reduce projected risks through improved financial analysis. Knowledge is power, and understanding your financial position will help prepare managers to make more meaningful decisions based on data.

Our instructors are experienced and offer practical, useful information that can be put into practice immediately. Interaction with other participants from a variety of business environments offer the chance to discover other methods of operations, and how other organizations interact in today's economy.

Major topics to be presented include:

• Analyzing and decoding balance sheets and income statements.
• Ratio and cash flow analysis.
• Capital requirements (e.g. tax/ liability/ depreciation).
• Budgeting methods (e.g. Activity based, Zero-based, Top-down or Bottom-up).

This seminar is ideal for:

• Supervisors and managers and past participants of Fundamentals of Supervision.
• Supervisors and managers interested in providing better data to back-up projects.

Key benefits of participation:

• Improve success and reduce risk of projects.
• Support decisions through data based on specific initiatives.

Seminar Leaders: Jesse Armentor, CPA, is a practicing CPA as a sole practitioner and he is an Instructor in the LSU Department of Accounting. Jesse earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, an M.B.A. from San Diego State University, and a Master of Science in Accounting from LSU.

Sherri L. Winslow, P.E., is Director of Customer Service Process Improvement for Entergy Corporation, involved with distribution operations, budgets and personnel management. She earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston, an M.B.A. from LSU, and she is a registered professional engineer in Louisiana. Sherri brings her knowledge together with an energy and awareness of the importance of planning effective projects through budget analysis.

For more information about this program contact: Lisa Graves, Program Coordinator.