Short Course
Leading for Results: Strategic Financial Management
Understand the financial impact of your decisions. Learn core finance and accounting tools to evaluate tradeoffs, align strategy, and drive business performance.
Current Offerings
Overview
Who Should Attend
This program benefits emerging leaders and those in a leadership or executive role responsible for creating or implementing strategy. Prior knowledge of finance is helpful, but not necessary.
Program Benefits
Improve your ability to:
Consider the interaction of operational decisions, financial outcomes, and strategic imperatives
Obtain a system-wide financial picture of your organization
Read and interpret financial statements as business and strategy tools
Deploy strategic financial management to drive systemic business efficiency
Program Content
Understand the basic tenets of managerial accounting
Read and understand corporate financial statements
Understand the balanced scorecard as an integrated view of the business
Cost management through product design
Operations Management
Revenue management
Money management
Developing a systems-view of your organization through financial information
Decision making: Maximizing possibilities, minimizing risk
Aligning business decisions, financial outcomes, and strategy
You will participate in a competitive business simulation allowing you to practice:
Operational decision making – product design to working capital management
Aligning operational and financial decisions with competitive strategy
Bridging functional silos to collaborate with other departments
Faculty
Sajay Samuel, Ph.D, CMA
Clinical Professor of Accounting, Smeal College of Business
Dr. Samuel has expertise in management & cost accounting; strategic cost management; history of quantification & political theory; and hospital costing & management. His work on the problem of exploding student loan debts in the US has resulted in a widely viewed TED talk.
What to Expect
Professional Certificate
Strategy and Organizational Performance
Complete any three eligible programs to earn the Strategy and Organizational Performance Professional Certificate. Take programs in any order and over any period of time, choosing the learning experiences that best support your professional goals around leadership and strategy skills.
Customize this Program
All programs and delivered to groups of 10 or more. A member of our team will reach out to discuss your goals and explore the right fit for your group. You can also reach us directly at 800-311-6364.
Additional Information
Our Learning Solutions Associate can hold a seat for you in the program. A reservation does not commit you until you submit the online registration form. To reserve your spot, email our office.
A 10% reduced rate on live remote delivery is available to military and government employees, Penn State alumni, individuals pursuing a professional certificate, teams of three or more from the same organization, and CSCR corporate sponsors or affiliated groups.
Yes. This program can count toward a . Complete three qualifying programs at your own pace to earn the certificate. Note: Each program can only count toward one certificate.
After you register, you’ll gain access to your personal learning portal. There, you’ll find pre-program assignments, information about faculty and fellow participants, plus other program resources.
Accepted applicants can transfer to another section if the transfer is arranged more than four weeks before the program begins. Additional transfers are subject to a charge of 10% of the current program fee. A sponsoring company may also identify a replacement candidate, provided the candidate is accepted into the program.
Refunds are based on when written notice of withdrawal is received:
More than six weeks before the program begins: Full refund
Between two and six weeks before the program begins: 50% refund
Two weeks or less before the program begins: No refund
All withdrawals, transfers, and substitutions must be confirmed in writing by the registered participant or their agent. If written notification is not received, the full program fee will be assessed.
Penn State may cancel or postpone a program due to insufficient enrollment or other unforeseen circumstances. If a program is canceled, registration fees will be refunded; however, Penn State is not responsible for other related expenses, including airline or travel agency cancellation or change fees. If a program is postponed, you may receive a refund or transfer your program fee to another session.
If you have questions about transfers or cancellations, please contact us.