Corporate programme · Four slots available for 2026 last quarter
The Finance Fluency Corporate Accelerator
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.
Four corporate slots left for 2026 last quarter. Applications close 5:00pm, 3 September 2026.
Measured client results
What changed for organisations that ran this programme
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
Managers who cannot read the numbers make expensive decisions every month.
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.
- Managers quote from cost-plus habit rather than contribution margin — every job leaks profit.
- Budgets are agreed in meetings nobody can challenge, because nobody can read the numbers.
- Cash is tight while the P&L says profitable, and no one in the room can explain the gap.
- Purchasing and staffing decisions are made without knowing their margin consequence.
- Month-end reporting lands three weeks late and changes no decision.
Who the programme is for
Built for organisations where managers hold the budget
A strong fit if…
- UK organisations with £2m–£50m turnover, or charities with £1m+ income
- 15 to 30 managers, heads of department or budget holders
- Managers who control staffing, pricing, purchasing or budgets without formal finance training
- An executive sponsor — CEO, COO, CFO, Finance Director or HR/L&D Director
- Organisations with a measurable commercial problem: margin erosion, cash strain or untrusted reporting
Not the right programme if…
- A one-hour awareness webinar or lunch-and-learn
- An accounting qualification route (ACCA, CIMA, AAT)
- Teams with no executive sponsor able to attend
- Generic theory delivered without access to your own numbers
Commercial outcomes
What the organisation gets back
Outcomes are agreed in the diagnostic and reported against at the results review.
Margin protected
Managers price and quote on contribution, with a repricing model built on your own cost base.
Cash released
A shortened cash conversion cycle with named owners, dates and a working forecast.
Faster decisions
Spend, hiring and investment decisions taken in the meeting rather than deferred to the accountant.
Budgets defended
Departmental budgets built, challenged and owned by the managers who spend them.
Reporting that is read
A management pack cut down to the numbers that drive decisions, run monthly by your own team.
Measured movement
Every outcome measured against the baseline agreed before delivery begins.
Cohort structure
Four stages across one quarter
Diagnostic and baseline
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.
Numbers, margin and pricing
A full day on P&L, balance sheet, contribution margin, break-even and pricing decisions — taught entirely on your own figures.
Cash, budgets and decisions
Cash conversion, working capital, budget construction and live decision clinics on real choices your managers face this quarter.
Application and embedding
Two follow-up decision clinics, a rebuilt management reporting pack, and a board-ready results review measured against the baseline.
Full deliverables
Exactly what is included
Our methodology
Diagnose · Decide · Embed · Measure
01
Diagnose
We start in your accounts, not in a textbook. Every teaching example is a decision your managers actually face.
02
Decide
Managers make live commercial decisions inside the sessions, with our team acting as challenger rather than lecturer.
03
Embed
The reporting pack, the pricing model and the cash routine are handed over as working tools your team runs monthly.
04
Measure
We report movement against the agreed baseline at the results review so the investment can be evidenced internally.
Training agenda
Two delivery days, hour by hour
Timings adjust to your operational diary; content is fixed to your own figures.
Day one — margin and pricing
- 09:00 — Where the money actually comes from: reading your own P&L
- 10:15 — Balance sheet and the difference between profit and cash
- 11:30 — Contribution margin: the number most managers have never been shown
- 13:30 — Pricing clinic: repricing one of your own service lines
- 15:00 — Cost behaviour, break-even and the consequence of discounting
- 16:15 — Day one commitments and manager action list
Day two — cash, budgets and decisions
- 09:00 — The cash conversion cycle mapped on your own figures
- 10:15 — Working capital, debtor discipline and supplier terms
- 11:30 — Building and defending a departmental budget
- 13:30 — Decision clinic: three live decisions from your business
- 15:00 — The management pack: what to keep, what to delete
- 16:15 — Ninety-day measurement plan and owner assignment
Before-and-after assessment
Financial fluency, measured for every delegate
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
£42,000 annual pricing uplift in a 40-person services business
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
- Service line A: 128 jobs a year repriced by an average £185 net of lost volume — £23,680
- Service line B: minimum-margin rule removed 9 below-cost jobs a year — £11,430
- Contract type withdrawn: recovered supervision time redeployed to billable work — £6,890
- Total measured annualised uplift — £42,000 (rounded)
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
What inaction is costing you right now
Use your own numbers. The output is the figure your board needs to see.
The cost of doing nothing
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
Two ways to buy. Fixed fee. No add-ons.
All fees are exclusive of VAT and inclusive of diagnostic, delivery, materials, clinics and the results review.
Corporate programme
from £32,500
plus VAT · up to 30 managers · one full quarter
- Full diagnostic and agreed baseline
- Two delivery days in person across the UK (live online available on special request)
- Two post-programme decision clinics
- Rebuilt management reporting pack
- Book and workbook for every delegate
- Before-and-after fluency assessment
- Board-ready results review
Executive cohort place
from £2,750
plus VAT per participant · in person · 20 places per cohort
- Both delivery days, in person
- Book and workbook
- Contribution-margin and repricing calculator
- Before-and-after fluency assessment
- One group decision clinic after delivery
Available dates
Four corporate slots. Two executive cohorts.
| Client slot | First delivery day | Second delivery day |
|---|---|---|
| Corporate Partner 1 | 28–29 September 2026 | 5–6 October 2026 |
| Corporate Partner 2 | 12–13 October 2026 | 19–20 October 2026 |
| Corporate Partner 3 | 26–27 October 2026 | 2–3 November 2026 |
| Corporate Partner 4 | 9–10 November 2026 | 16–17 November 2026 |
Four corporate programme slots are available. Applications close at 5:00pm on 3 September 2026, or earlier when all four slots are allocated.
17–18 September 2026
In person · limited to 20 participants
8–9 October 2026
In person · limited to 20 participants
Procurement information
Everything your finance and HR teams will ask for
Brochure, one-page programme summary, service agreement and proposal template are issued after the Corporate Finance Workshop Assessment.
Corporate booking
Book the Finance Fluency Corporate Accelerator
Complete the qualification below. We respond within one working day with availability, a written proposal and procurement documentation.
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