February cohort
18–19 February 2027
- Application
- 21 January
- Early-booking bonus
- Book by 7 January

Corporate programme · Six 2027 cohorts
Finance for Non-Financial Managers — corporate programmes from £32,500 plus VAT for up to 30 managers. Executive cohort places from £2,750 plus VAT per participant.
Measured client results
Every figure below comes from a real UK client engagement, measured against an agreed baseline.
£42,000
annual pricing uplift
Contribution-based pricing replaced cost-plus habit across a 40-person services business.
22 hours
saved every week
Manual reporting and chasing removed from the management team's week.
38 → 11 days
invoice collection
Cash conversion rebuilt; working capital released inside one quarter.
£14,200
tax saved in year one
Decisions taken earlier in the year, with the numbers understood in the room.
Assessments run Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 10:00, 11:00, 14:00 and 15:00.
The financial problem
The cost never appears as a line in the accounts. It appears as thin margins, late cash, budgets nobody defends and decisions taken three weeks too late. In a £5m business, a two-point margin slip is £100,000 a year — quietly.
Who the programme is for
Commercial outcomes
Outcomes are agreed in the diagnostic and reported against at the results review.
Managers price and quote on contribution, with a repricing model built on your own cost base.
A shortened cash conversion cycle with named owners, dates and a working forecast.
Spend, hiring and investment decisions taken in the meeting rather than deferred to the accountant.
Departmental budgets built, challenged and owned by the managers who spend them.
A management pack cut down to the numbers that drive decisions, run monthly by your own team.
Every outcome measured against the baseline agreed before delivery begins.
Cohort structure
We review two years of accounts, your pricing model, your cash cycle and your current reporting pack, then agree the metrics the programme will move.
A full day on P&L, balance sheet, contribution margin, break-even and pricing decisions — taught entirely on your own figures.
Cash conversion, working capital, budget construction and live decision clinics on real choices your managers face this quarter.
Two follow-up decision clinics, a rebuilt management reporting pack, and a board-ready results review measured against the baseline.
Full deliverables
Our methodology
01
We start in your accounts, not in a textbook. Every teaching example is a decision your managers actually face.
02
Managers make live commercial decisions inside the sessions, with our team acting as challenger rather than lecturer.
03
The reporting pack, the pricing model and the cash routine are handed over as working tools your team runs monthly.
04
We report movement against the agreed baseline at the results review so the investment can be evidenced internally.
Training agenda
Timings adjust to your operational diary; content is fixed to your own figures.
Before-and-after assessment
Delegates complete the same assessment before day one and after the final clinic. Figures below are the average across delivered cohorts.
| Capability | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Reads and interprets a P&L unaided | 24% | 94% |
| Calculates contribution margin on a live quote | 11% | 89% |
| Explains the gap between profit and cash | 18% | 91% |
| Builds and defends a departmental budget | 31% | 88% |
| Identifies the margin impact of a discount | 16% | 92% |
Case study
Business
UK professional services firm, 40 staff, £4.6m turnover, 11 budget-holding managers
Problem before training
Gross margin had fallen 3.4 points over two years while revenue grew. Quotes were signed off by operations, not finance.
What the manager misunderstood
Quotes were priced at direct cost plus a fixed 20% mark-up. Nobody had allocated supervision, rework or non-billable time, so the true contribution on three service lines was close to zero.
What changed after the programme
Managers rebuilt the quoting model on contribution margin, repriced two service lines, introduced a minimum-margin sign-off, and withdrew from one loss-making contract type.
How the £42,000 was calculated
Measured over the twelve months following delivery against the baseline agreed in the diagnostic. Verified from the client's own management accounts.
"The programme paid for itself in the first pricing meeting. My managers stopped defending the quote and started defending the margin — and they now ask better questions than I do."
Reference availability: this client has agreed to speak to serious corporate prospects by telephone after a completed Corporate Finance Workshop Assessment.
Build the business case
Use your own numbers. The output is the figure your board needs to see.
Move the four inputs to your own figures. The estimate uses conservative assumptions: four per cent of loaded manager cost lost to slow or unconfident financial decisions, plus the margin you believe is slipping.
Decision drag
£25,920
Margin leakage
£75,000
Estimated annual cost
£100,920
Against a fixed investment of £32,500 plus VAT, that is roughly 3.1× the programme fee — every year it goes unaddressed.
Illustrative estimate only, not a guarantee of results. We size the real number with you in the diagnostic.
Fixed investment
All fees are exclusive of VAT and inclusive of diagnostic, delivery, materials, clinics and the results review.
from £32,500
plus VAT · up to 30 managers · one full quarter
from £2,750
plus VAT per participant · in person · 20 places per cohort
Confirm by the published early-booking date and receive a complimentary 60-minute leadership finance diagnostic before delivery.
Diagnostic, two in-person days, delegate workbooks, two follow-up decision clinics and a board-ready results review are included.
Book two or more teams in one agreement and receive 10% off the programme fee for each additional team.
2027 schedule
All published cohorts are delivered in person and limited to 20 participants. Live online delivery is available only by special request.
| Cohort | In-person dates | Application deadline | Early-booking bonus |
|---|---|---|---|
| February | 18–19 February 2027 | Apply by 21 January | Book by 7 January |
| April | 22–23 April 2027 | Apply by 25 March | Book by 11 March |
| June | 17–18 June 2027 | Apply by 20 May | Book by 6 May |
| August | 19–20 August 2027 | Apply by 22 July | Book by 8 July |
| October | 21–22 October 2027 | Apply by 23 September | Book by 9 September |
| December | 2–3 December 2027 | Apply by 4 November | Book by 21 October |
18–19 February 2027
22–23 April 2027
17–18 June 2027
19–20 August 2027
21–22 October 2027
2–3 December 2027
Every cohort is capped at 20 participants. Private corporate dates are available after assessment, subject to capacity.
Need dates reserved for your organisation?
Book the assessment and we will confirm a private 90-day delivery window around your operational calendar.
Procurement information
Brochure, one-page programme summary, service agreement and proposal template are issued after the Corporate Finance Workshop Assessment.
Corporate booking
Complete the qualification below. We respond within one working day with availability, a written proposal and procurement documentation.
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