Course Overview

Build a successful business career with ICS
This comprehensive set of courses offers you a flexible way to gain all the skills you need to be successful in business, whether you want to develop your own company or branch out in a new or existing career with someone else.

Each of the ICS Business Skills courses has been devised by home learning experts and business specialists with a single aim: to help you succeed with the minimum of fuss.  There's only 24-30 hours study needed for each one - little more than a single day of your life!

Finance for Non Financial Managers
Reports full of numbers can be daunting to a non-accountant. This course tells you which bits matter and how to read them, and teaches you how to prepare budgets [and financial cases] without using reams of figures.

Key Topics
Understanding Finance
Working with Budgets
Making a Financial Case

Pre-requisites
The great news is that you don't need any previous experience to take this course.

Study Time
30 hours approx. For example: 2.5 hours per week to complete in 3 months, or 1.5 hours per week to complete in 6 months. Study as little or as much as you wish.

Support
As an ICS student you will have your very own personal tutor helping you with your course work and with any questions you may have. Plus our team of Student Advisors are only a phone call away for all the practical advice you may need - so we really are with you 100%

Exam Details
This course includes a number of assessments that you complete as part of your coursework and then forward to your tutor. Once your tutor has marked and graded your work, they'll send it back to you with their comments, if any.

Qualification
ICS Business Skills Diploma

What our students say
"ICS gave me the opportunity to study from home in my own time, which was ideal as I could carry on working. The coursework was thorough and easy to work through and as I work at the moment, it's really helped me in my job."  Emma Woods

Key Jobs
Whether you already work in business or aspire to get into this rewarding field, this course will enhance your skills and provide positive proof to an employer of your commitment to self-improvement. As such, a number of different career paths will be open to you.

Free With Course
An ICS study pack which contains a document wallet, sticky notes, ball pen and highlighter and ruler to help you get started.

Further Reading
There is no specific recommended reading for this course, but you may wish to read widely around your subject to enhance your knowledge as you progress.