COURSE DETAILS
P&L and Finance Skills for Technical Leaders
Description
Finance is the language and scorecard of business. It is critical to have a solid understanding of financial concepts as they relate to budgeting, product profit performance and recommending new programs for projects or other R&D efforts. This product management course provides critical finance skills to participate in these activities.
Key questions we will answer in this course include:
- How can you read a profit and loss statement to determine how your products contribute to the company?
- Which variables are most important to your financial leaders?
- How you you optimize your profit by focusing on the right financial metrics?
- What are key financial terms you need to know and how best to communicate them with executives?
- What are the different types of margin and profit and why are they important to know?
- How should you optimize costs and expenses to improve your bottom line?
- How can you optimize one product, a product line or a category when analyzing a whole portfolio?
Agenda
PART 1: UNDERSTANDING INCOME AND PROFIT AND LOSS STATEMENTS
You’ll start with a foundation of understanding the primary scorecard of every product or category – the profit and loss statement.
- Income statements vs. cash flow – What each is and why they are both important
- Key metrics corporate management uses to monitor the business
- Understanding Profit and Loss Statements: Section by section
- Defining gross and net revenue from an accounting perspective
- Costs of Goods Sold including fixed vs. variable costs, etc.
- Understanding operating expenses
- Calculating gross, operating and net margins and profit
PART 2: KEY PRINCIPLES OF COST ACCOUNTING
- Understanding burden, overhead and standard costing
- Calculating and accounting for depreciation
- Understanding capital costs vs. operating expenses
- Developing a personal and department budget
PART 3: FOUNDATIONS OF PRO FORMA ANALYSIS
- Using a P&L statement as basis for pro forma financials
- Setting up your spreadsheets for success
- Understanding the time value of money
- Calculating Return on Investment (ROI)
- Using NPV and IRR to calculate a series of cash flows
- Forecasting Current Projects and Products
What’s Included
Each participant will receive:
Product Management Excellence E-book: A complete understanding of the overall Product Management Market Success Process.
Product Management Templates: A full set of templates of the key tools and step-by-step instructions for each method.
Who Should Attend
This program is designed for anyone involved in product development who wants to become more customer-focused and develop deeper strategic skills, including:
- Product Managers and those looking to transition to product management
- Product marketers
- Engineering Managers and leaders
- Embedded software developers and leads
- Application engineers, test managers and other supporting functions
- Project Managers
- Directors and executives
Pricing
Contact us for facilitation and pricing options.
Registration Options
Program Leaders
Dorian Simpson
Management Consultant
Innovation Management
Product Management
Product Definition and Roadmaps
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