Courses from Ashridge Business School:
- Advanced Management Programme
- Advanced Organisation Design
- Ashridge Leadership Process
- Coaching for Organisation Consultants
- Finance for Managers
- Financial Drivers
- Focusing on the Customer
- Group Level Strategy
- Impact and Influence: Driving outstanding results
- Implementing Change
- Influencing Strategies and Skills
- Leading Change and Growth
- Making Strategy Happen
- Making Successful Acquisitions
- Management Development Programme
- Performance through People
- Sales Leadership Programme
- Senior Executive Programme: Leading Strategy and Change
- Strategic Decisions
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Strategy and Finance
- Strategy Tools
- The Leadership Experience: Leading on the Edge
- Virtual Action Learning Facilitation

Ashridge Business School
Executive Education
Master Program: Strategy and Finance
Learning purpose
- How to analyse financial information
- How to apply strategic thinking in the context of financial implications
- How to take financial decisions that are aligned with your strategic objectives
- How to communicate both strategic and financial information
- How to enhance the quality of your analytical thinking.
Target audience
Your ambition is to further your career to board level. You may have a strong functional background but you need confidence in framing business problems in strategic and financial terms.
This is an advanced programme for directors either at the division or subdivision level of a large company or on the board of a smaller company.
Programme
The ability to understand strategy and interpret it using financial analysis is a pre-requisite for any manager seeking a senior role in business.
Are you confident with your own professional discipline, but less so when faced with strategic or financial issues?
Strategy and Finance is a highly interactive programme designed to solve this problem. Its objective is to make you comfortable with strategic and financial issues so that you can make better informed decisions.
You will be able to deliver strategic initiatives having understood the financial implications and you will be able to take financial decisions having considered the impact on strategy.
Entry Requirements
University degree desirable, 5 years work experience, good GMAT score, TOEFL IBT 100+
Professional perspective and employment market
Ultimately your sound grasp of strategy and finance, both theory and practice, will mean you are able to better contribute to improved decision-making. This will positively influence the success of your business.

