Colour Accounting™

An innovative and interactive way to learn business finance where balance sheets and income statements (P&L) come to life.

This is a very powerful course that can be delivered to anyone. Everyone can take something new away from this.

Who would have imagined that I would actually enjoy an accounting course. This has been really helpful; I now feel fully equipped to interpret company accounts.

Help to understand the company’s profit/loss numbers, balance sheets and income statements. Really helped to improve my financial understanding. Excellent, enthusiastic and motivating course delivery.

It will help me understand terms that I have heard of and didn’t understand what they meant. It will also help me to understand balance sheets and analyse financial fitness of a business.

A five hour session with Board & Senior Management on Finance! It certainly didn’t feel like it. The content & presentation made a typically dry subject come alive. There is now a confidence in understanding and being able to challenge what lies behind the financial statement.

Develop a deep understanding of the Balance Sheet.
Understand how the P&L connects with the Balance Sheet.
Get clarity on Assets, Liabilities, Equity, Revenue & Expenses.
Understand the Value Cycle of business.
Learn how to ‘speak finance’ and how to avoid communication pitfalls.
How cash flow is reported.
Analyse financial statements of a business and identify risk areas, performance changes, and opportunities for improvement.

Benefits

Be able to have productive conversations with your finance people that actually yield results
Have confidence in your business finance acumen to be able to ask challenging questions
Have the knowledge to create a financially sustainable business plan
Be able to take your business to the next level because you understand your numbers and where they should go

Who Needs This ?

Our Colour Accounting™ course is designed for anyone who needs to understand how accounting concepts work. Whether you belong to a micro business, a start-up, a SME or large organisation the principles are the same.

The team at Colour Accounting™ were frustrated. Frustrated because learning finance was such a chore. Business people (even at senior levels) were winging it when financial statements passed their desk. Managers didn’t know a balance sheet from a P&L.

The Colour Accounting™ team decided enough was enough and produced and created this awesome finance for non-finance managers course. They developed a simple 5-box model where every financial question/problem/opportunity can be explained. It is so simple we at Holst loved it and instantly added the Colour Accounting course to our portfolio.

Colour Accounting™ is a new way to learn finance. 3-D tools and colour-coded diagrams bring balance sheets and income statements (P&L) alive. This finance for non-finance managers course is different. It is fun!

Colour Accounting™ breaks the barriers to understanding, language and confidence. Learners leave this finance for non-finance managers course with a deep insight into how accounting and business work.

Visual. Interactive. Different. Learning is hands-on, engaging and fun.

For this finance for non-finance managers course you need little or no experience in finance to attend. Participants leave able to read and analyse a balance sheet and income statement. They are finance literate and can rapidly apply the concepts to business issues, financial analysis and powerful communication.

How Do I Book?

We deliver all our courses in-house at the time and place of your choice, throughout the world. An in-house training course is a great way for your people to learn together. Clients tell us that skills are more likely to be used post-course if a team has attended the same course.

Call 0203 111 9292 or contact us using the button below to talk to the team about your requirements and pricing.

What You Will Learn

A Colour Accounting™ course teaches participants to read and analyse financial statements. They build an accounting-based 3D model of how business works. This model becomes the basis for their learning. The power of this course lies in the learner’s ability to see the big picture impact of the numbers, while also understanding the detail.

Learners hold, manipulate and engage with learning materials to gain new insights into their business’ finances. Previous participants tell us they enjoyed tackling real-life topics, so please bring along your thoughts on the day of your course. Finally a finance for non-finance managers course that truly works!

Participants can:

Manage profitability, cash flow and working capital better.
Gain essential business acumen.
Understand the language of finance.
Better communicate with strategic stakeholders.
Learn at their pace.
Bring their financial statements.
Select elective modules based on specific needs (in-house workshops)

The Three Modules

Module 1:

The first module prepares the learners for a different type of learning journey.

For some this ‘warm up’ module can be the most important. It reveals mental blocks and asks participants to give themselves permission to learn. Learners begin to see that what appear to be simple questions are examined very deeply.

Module 2:

The Colour Accounting™ is not a game or simulation. It draws on a realistic business scenario. Students learn to literally account for transactions.

Learners record a series of 14 carefully ordered transactions. Each is designed to teach a specific concept. Learners develop a big picture and start to use accounting as a business framework.

Module 3:

The Colour Accounting™ culminates in a case study that has the learners realise how far they have come and what they are capable of.

A carefully constructed business case study of a struggling but successful business brings the learning together. The students articulate the essential business narrative that the balance sheet and income statement tell. They then complete a detailed financial analysis of the company, addressing business issues.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

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Our Unique Guarantee

If you are not satisfied with your training 3 months post-training, we will re-train your delegates for free
If after 6 months you are still not satisfied, we will refund the original training course fees
This has never happened, making us completely confident of your satisfaction

Fit-for-purpose

Training courses which deliver relevant learning outcomes
A safe learning environment
Interactive, engaging and memorable course content
Trainers who support you both during- and post-course as you put your new skills into action

Quality

A single point of contact to arrange all the fine details of your workshop
Copyrighted training materials
Carefully selected trainers whose commitment to your learning matches ours
Excellent training venues in prime locations

Duration	1 Day
Participants	Maximum 15
Prerequisites	None
Trainer Certification Available?	Yes

Colour Accounting™

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Who Needs This ?

How Do I Book?

What You Will Learn

The Three Modules

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