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Training Courses: Business Areas 4
Finance for non-Financial Managers
The purpose of the Finance for Non-Financial Managers course is to provide non-financial managers with the essential financial skills to understand and influence the financial performance of their business. The course is a practical application of key concepts, with functional exercises that can be done on Excel or manually. This course will expand your applied knowledge of finance. Often non-financial managers are required to contribute to decisions that will have a financial impact. This course will enable such role players to understand the underlying financial principles, and make a meaningful contribution to financial decisions, costing dilemmas, the budgeting process, funding of projects and risk analysis.
Think Like an entrepreneur
Critical entrepreneurial and business lessons are taught in an interactive learning experience.
Think like an entrepreneur for Banking
Business Strategy Translation
IMPACT Financial Training Academy invites you to join us on a journey of practical strategy formulation for your company, department or business unit. The purpose of this Business Strategy Translation course is to facilitate a critical analysis of your current strategy, equip you with various useful strategic tools, and assist you in formulating a strategic plan for your company, department or business unit. A study on strategic planning execution authored by Renaissance Solutions, notes that of the 101 corporate participants surveyed, 57% report only “little or some” linkage between the priorities of long-range strategy and the annual budget. Source: The Corporate Strategy Board, Congruence of Strategic Planning and Budgeting Process.
Training Courses: Excel Courses 10
Exploring Excel for Banking
Employees understanding the intermediate principles of Excel is vital for any business, and a thorough grasp of Excel is a key competency needed for effective performance within all organisations. It is therefore important to train staff in Excel in order to improve productivity in their areas of work. The purpose of this practical and interactive course is to guide you through the intermediate Excel skills needed to perform your analytical function, as well as form a basis for further Excel training. This has the potential to enhance the efficiency of individuals and entire business units.
Exploring Excel
Employees understanding the intermediate principles of Excel is vital for any business, and a thorough grasp of Excel is a key competency needed for effective performance within all organisations. It is therefore important to train staff in Excel in order to improve productivity in their areas of work. The purpose of this practical and interactive course is to guide you through the intermediate Excel skills needed to perform your analytical function, as well as form a basis for further Excel training. This has the potential to enhance the efficiency of individuals and entire business units.
Excel Level 2+3
Excel plays a crucial role on various levels in any organisation. It is therefore important that staff grasp the principles of functions, applications and modelling in Excel to improve productivity in the workplace. A thorough grasp of the principles of functions, applications and modelling is a key competency needed for effective management of a business. The purpose of this practical and interactive Excel course is to guide you through the essential and more advanced Excel skills needed to perform your analytical function. This has the potential to upskill individuals into becoming independent Excel users, as the course not only focuses
Financial Modelling in Excel for Banking
Excel plays a crucial role on various levels in any organisation. It is therefore important that staff grasp the principles of functions, applications and modelling in Excel to improve productivity in the workplace. A thorough grasp of the principles of functions, applications and modelling is a key competency needed for effective management of a business. The purpose of this practical and interactive Excel course is to guide you through the essential and more advanced Excel skills needed to perform your analytical function. This has the potential to upskill individuals into becoming independent Excel users, as the course not only focuses
Advanced Financial Modelling in Excel for Banking
Building models in Excel plays a crucial role in the Finance Department, Procurement and various other departments of any business. It is therefore important that staff grasp the principles of modelling tools and techniques to improve productivity in their areas of expertise. The purpose of this practical and interactive course is to guide you through the Excel skills needed to perform your analytical function, as well as save you valuable time when building models in Excel. This has the potential to improve the overall value of your organisation and improve the productivity of individuals.
Advanced Data Analytics and Modelling in Excel
Building models in Excel plays a crucial role in the Finance Department, Procurement and various other departments of any business. It is therefore important that staff grasp the principles of modelling tools and techniques to improve productivity in their areas of expertise. The purpose of this practical and interactive course is to guide you through the Excel skills needed to perform your analytical function, as well as save you valuable time when building models in Excel. This has the potential to improve the overall value of your organisation and improve the productivity of individuals.
Dashboards and Data Visualisation in Excel
Data visualisation and charts play an important role in any business, and facilitates the understanding of complex data on all levels of an organisation. Effective data visualisation and dashboards can facilitate and enhance decision-making, as well as drive effective management of complex variables. It is therefore important that all employees who work with data are comfortable with the available tools and charts to effectively visually represent the complex data. The purpose of this practical and interactive course is to guide you through the numerous Excel tools and charts available to enable effective data visualisation, as well as enable you to choose the best tool or chart
Macros and Visual Basic (VBA) in Excel
Automating repeat actions can save employees immense amounts of time each month. With recorded and coded macros, it becomes possible to automate repeat actions. The aim of this interactive course is to teach delegates how to automate processes by recording or coding macros, as well as basic and intermediate coding techniques in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). No prior coding experience is required, as the course includes basic to intermediate coding principles in VBA, as well as a host of practical examples.
Power Tools, Tables and Arrays in Excel
Excel’s Power Tools can efficiently analyse virtually an unlimited amount of data in a greatly reduced time. Previous delegates have reported cutting the time spent on month-end reporting in half by using Power Query and Power Pivot. The aim of this course is to equip delegates to use Excel’s Power Tools, table functionalities and array calculations to streamline calculations and applications in their vast datasets and financial models. New dynamic array functions are constantly being added by Excel developers, and this course is updated with the latest in dynamic array functions, bringing you the cutting edge ways to analyse
Advanced Project Management Tools in Excel
Project management is done on a daily basis in a wide range of companies and organisations, but often on expensive software and in a complex manner. This course will upskill you in harnessing the powerful Excel applications in order to improve project management in your organisation. Through this course, you will learn how to build interactive models on Excel, in order to efficiently and effectively manage your projects.
Training Courses: Other Tools of the Trade 2
Professional Report Writing in MS Word
It is always impressive to see a well-designed Word document being used as a template in the office or somewhere in the world. This Microsoft Word course intends to teach each delegate the fundamental, easy, and “funky” skills to do just that. Template documents make life in the digital world a “work smart” environment and not a “work hard” environment. The course is designed to display and teach skills visually, with exercise material at key points throughout, even creating a custom template from scratch. Somewhere along the journey of an office-based career, individuals would have needed to (or will in the future need
Basic to Intermediate Applications in Power BI
PowerBI is often referred to as the Ferrari of business intelligence and data visualisation applications – now is your chance to master the art of turning your data into an interactive dashboard! Businesses and individuals are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of data to make sense of on a daily basis, and the pressure from senior management is growing to present the data in a meaningful format. Interactive and visual reports need to be created, and PowerBI is the perfect tool for it! The purpose of this course is to enable the delegates to explore and use the basic to intermediate capabilities and applications in PowerBI,
Training Courses: Personal Wellness 2
Personal Finance Fin up Skill up
The purpose of the Fin-up, Skill-up course is to expose attendees to essential personal financial skills in order for them to improve their quality of life. employees earning relatively small salaries or wages can still increase their wealth by learning how to make clever financial decisions. By equipping the attendees with the skills to manage their finances, the living standards of a large percentage of our country’s population can be uplifted. “Not only does indebtedness have a significant impact on employees’ ability to thrive and fund their future, but it has a deleterious impact on mineworkers’ wellbeing at work and at home.” Chamber of Mines South Africa, Addressing Indebtedness, Factsheet.
Personal Finance for professionals
The purpose of the Personal Finance for Professionals course is to expose professional employees to essential personal financial skills in order for them to achieve financial independence.