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Financial Management Courses

Finance is the life blood of any organization and people endowed with the responsibility of managing finance have to shoulder humungous critical responsibilities every day. A career in financial management is both challenging and rewarding which demands perfect skill sets, prudent decision making ability and a very good business acumen.

Financial decisions are major deciding factors that influence the long term growth of an organization directly and therefore the prospective managers are literally hand picked from ace institution in India. A normal commerce or economics graduate can take up a course in financial management that serves as a stepping stone to the corporate world.

Financial planners are needed by all type of companies and be it bank or NGO Financial planners are undoubtedly the most sought after professionals. India with its rising economy needs more financial planners to chalk out and implement timely financial decisions that yields and adds value to the country. Since the entire corporate accounting system has metamorphosed into ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), which is recognized as a robust system of integrated control, demand for professionals has shot up very steeply.

This is one field which is never stagnant with a room for continuous improvement and skill up gradation. To cut a long story short a financial manager takes the key decisions in helping his company earn more revenue, handle liquidity, and fine tune merger and acquisitions smoothly. Initial pay package for an apprentice could be ranging between 10000 to 12000 INR, which can go up to 2 Lakhs per month with time. Courses usually offered by Indian Institutes to the budding aspirants of this field are:

• Certified Public Accountant
• Chartered Financial Analyst
• MBA Finance
• Cost Accountancy
• Chartered Accountancy
• Certified Treasury Management
• Risk and Insurance Management
• Chartered Financial Planner
• Diploma in Financial Management
• Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management

There are many institutions which offer various courses in Financial Management and some of them are cited below.

• Associate of Financial Planners, Mumbai
• Institute of Chartered Financial Analyst of India
• Wigan & Leigh College
• International College of Financial Planning
• IFMR (Institute for Financial Management and Research)
• SAS Financial Management Foundation Course
• Balaji Institute of Management Studies, Pune