Inhouse Training: Controlling & Finance for Decision Makers

The inhouse training that turns managers into financially strong decision makers.

Managers make decisions every day that influence revenue, margins, cash flow and company results. Yet many leaders are unsure how exactly their decisions impact financial performance.

This practical inhouse seminar gives your team a clear financial understanding, strengthens cross-functional collaboration with controlling, and enables better, faster and more profitable decisions.

Your Benefits

Corporate management, controlling, controllers, costs

  • Understand the financial impact of daily decisions
  • Speak the same financial language as controlling & finance
  • Identify and manage the key value drivers in your area
  • Improve margins, profitability, cash flow and working capital
  • Strengthen leadership impact through financial confidence
  • Make decisions based on sound financial logic rather than gut feeling

This training builds financial acumen for all decision makers — compact, hands-on, and immediately applicable.

Seminar Content Examples

Compact • Practical • Tailored

Controlling & Financial Competences for Managers

  • Controlling function and benefits
  • Managers and controllers as business partners
  • Variance analysis, forecasting and early identification of deviations
  • Contribution margin and gross profit
  • Product mix, pricing, volume and discount effects
  • Balance sheet and Profit & Loss made easy
  • Cash flow essentials: profit vs. cash, cash flow drivers
  • Interactive simulation

Value Creation, KPIs & Working Capital

  • ROCE driver tree and financial value creation
  • Result account, multi-dimensional contribution accounting
  • Product costing and cost center accounting, calculation of cost rates and prices
  • Investment decisions (ROI, NPV, payback, qualitative criteria)
  • Financial KPIs for managers: liquidity, profitability, stability including ROS, EBIT, EBITDA, Profit Margin, Free Cash Flow, Equity and Current Ratio
  • Working Capital Management: Cash-to-Cash cycle, DIO, DSO, DPO
  • Simulation of working capital drivers
  • Transfer to your own business challenges and action planning

Who should attend?

This inhouse training is ideal for managers and decision makers from all functions, especially:

  • Sales and Key Account Managers
  • R&D, Product and Project Managers
  • Operations, Service and Supply Chain Leaders
  • Team leaders, department heads and profit center or plant managers
  • C-level managers

Perfect for leadership teams who want to build a shared financial mindset and achieve better business results together.

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Jens Ropers - CA controller akademie - Inhouse Service Team

Contact and advice

Jens Ropers, Partner
j.ropers@ca-akademie.de

+49 170 7420 673

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