Week No. |
Date |
Week No. |
Date |
| 10 | 3 - 7 March | 37 | 8 - 12 September |
Participants
This course is aimed at professionals working in any department except finance who need to improve their knowledge of financial concepts, extend their language knowledge around these concepts and develop their communication skills in English
Objectives
Programmes are customised to specific group requirements. Your group trainer will do a detailed needs analysis on Monday morning and agree a timetable of activities which meets the needs of the group to develop fluency and professional communication skills in a number of key areas for legal communication. The following three areas form the basis of this training course
1. Professional communication skills
Participants will develop their ability to present financial policy, participate in meetings in which financial analysis is central, negotiate using financial and draft documents on financial topics etc. The training programme will include both language input and detailed feedback on individual performance.
2. Understanding of financial concepts
Participants will develop their understanding of a number of key financial concepts. for example:
- financial planning
- company finance
- measuring financial performance
- banking and insurance terms
- investment
- macro-economics
3. Specialist financial vocabulary
Most participants want to develop their general confidence and fluency when speaking about financial issues. The training programme will use financial case studies to create lots of opportunities for speaking about financial topics in order to develop fluency and increase command of specialist vocabulary. Typical topics include:
- costs
- budgets
- profitability
- financial documents
- banking and insurance
- markets
This course is 30 hours with each working day structured from 09.00 to 17.00 as follows:
Timetable |
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1 |
09.00 – 10.30 |
Coffee |
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2 |
10.45 – 12.15 |
Lunch (with trainer) |
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3 |
13.45 – 15.15 |
Coffee |
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4 |
15.30 – 17.00 |
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Evening (optional homework / social activity) |
Evening activities
At least two events will be arranged, either an evening dinner, sports activity, theatre, live music, countryside tour etc. This is optional and y ou are free to have dinner with your host family each evening (subject to availability) if you wish.
Tuition fee |
£955 (€1412) |
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Accommodation |
£36.50 (€54) |
per night for host family accommodation (inclusive of breakfast and evening meal). Hotel rates available on request. |