Build practical, working knowledge of financial management, so that you can scrutinise, challenge and assure your trust’s financial position effectively.
This course will help you learn to:
- Interpret the range of financial information presented to trustees
- Identify emerging financial risks, variances and benchmarking results that need further scrutiny
- Evaluate financial data and reporting critically to form your own independent view
- Ask informed questions about financial information, and judge whether the answers you receive are satisfactory
- Hold leaders to account for spending public money in line with your trust’s funding agreement and government guidance
- Apply your understanding of the trust’s financial position to board-level decisions on staffing, estates, procurement and growth
It will be ready early in the autumn term, but if you’d like to learn about the basics now, try our finance learning pathways.