Intex Management Institute offers Online and Distance Learning Diploma Course in Financial Management

Start Date: 4th September 2026

Course End Date: 15th July 2027

Registration Deadline: 3rd September 2026 

Financial Management

Course overview
Companies do not work in a vacuum, isolated from everything else. It interacts and transacts with the other entities present in the economic environment. These entities include Government, Suppliers, Lenders, Banks, Customers, Shareholders, etc. who deal with the organization in several ways. Most of these dealings result in either money flowing in or flowing out from the company. This flow of money (or funds) has to be managed so as to result in maximum gains to the company.

Managing this flow of funds efficiently is the purview of finance. So we can define finance as the study of the methods which help us plan, raise and use funds in an efficient manner to achieve corporate objectives.

The successful financial manager of tomorrow will need to supplement the traditional metrics of performance with new methods that encourage a greater role for uncertainty and multiple assumptions. These new methods will seek to value the flexibility inherent in initiatives – that is, the way in which taking one step offers you the option to stop or continue down one or more paths. This Diploma Course in Financial Management will not only equip students how to be prudent financial managers but also on how to deal with tomorrow’s challenges in the field of Financial Management

Course Objectives

After completing the material in this Diploma Manual, you will be able to:

• Understand the meaning and nature of accounting.
• Differentiate between various types of accounting.
• Explain the importance of accounting
• Evaluate various capital investment alternatives.
• Calculate and interpret net present value (NPV).
• Calculate and interpret internal rate of return (IRR).
• Define working capital.
• Understand working capital management strategies.
• Construct a cash budget.
• Manage receivables and payables
• Analyze the financial statements of health care organizations using horizontal
• analysis, vertical (common-size) analysis, and ratio analysis.
• Calculate and interpret liquidity ratios, profitability ratios, activity ratios, and capital structure ratios

Module one
a) Introduction to Accounting
b) Accounting Concepts and Conventions
c) Recording Of Transactions- Voucher System, Accounting Process, Journal
d) Ledger Posting and Trial Balance
e) Subsidiary Books of Accounts
f) Preparation of Profit And Loss Account and Balance Sheet
g) Rectification of Errors
h) Accounting of Negotiable Instruments
i) Reconciliation of Bank Accounts
j) Single Entry System
k) Accounting for Depreciation

Module two
a) Introduction to Financial Management
b) Cost of Capital
c) Operating and Financial Leverage
d) Capital Budgeting
e) Capital Budgeting Evaluation Techniques
f) Capital Budgeting under Risk and Uncertainties
g) Working Capital Management
h) Cash Management and Marketable Securities
i) Management of Receivables
j) Inventory Management
k) Regulation of Bank Finance

Module three
a) Capital Structure Theories
b) Dividend Decisions
c) Working Capital Financing
d) Making Investment Decisions
e) Capital Budgeting Evaluation Techniques
f) Capital Budgeting and Risk
g) Analyzing the Lease versus Borrow-to-Buy Problem
h) Mergers and other forms of Corporate restructuring
i) International financial management

Module four

a) Ratio analysis
b) Reporting corporate performance
c) Reporting cash flows
d) Functions of management accounting
e) Classification of costs
f) Product costs: materials, labour and overheads
g) Break-even analysis and short-term decision making
h) Preparing a budget
i) Standard costs
j) Performance evaluation and feedback reporting

Module 5

1. Introduction
2. Entrepreneurship and Economy
3. Types of Business
4. Effective Business Communication
5. Business Plan
6. Start-up Investment and Financing
7. Government Regulations
8. Managing Purchasing
9. Franchising and Licensing
10. Decision-Making and Problem-Solving
11. Time Management
12. Managing the Business
13. Management skills
14. Managing Systems and Processes
15. Leaders and Stress Management
16. Change Management

Course Organizers

Intex Management Institute was registered in 1983. We have been offering a wide range of Capacity Building Training Programs both online and open workshops, building capacity to enhance effective service delivery for NGOs, CBOs, Public and Private sector.

We have trained and currently training participants from various organizations across Africa such as UNDP - Burundi, World Food Programme - Zimbabwe, SOS Children – Somalia, and specifically organization from South Sudan are State Ministry of Education, MEDAIR, Norwegian Refugee - Liberia, Zenab for Women Development, Action AID, Caritas, International Organization for Migration, International Committee of the Red Cross, UNHCR, Save the Children, Medical Corps, Peace Relief Development, World Vision, Action Against Hunger, UNICEF, Plan International, Norwegian Refugee Council, Johanniter International, Islamic Relief Worldwide, Peace Relief Development , AMREF, World Health Organization, USAID, International Committee of the Red Cross, Action Africa Help (AAH) International, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) just to mention but a few.

 Training methodology:

• All training materials will be availed through online or distance learning.
• You are expected to submit assignments via email
• You will receive feedback from our committed instructors.
• Learn at your own time schedule
• At the end of the course you will be issued with a certificate.

Other requirements

You will be required to use email, upload and download documents in MS-Word format.

Learning materials

Course materials and Assignments will be provided at the beginning of the course.

Course exercises

Students are required to test their own learning by completing exercises and tasks for each unit of the course.

Course Assignments

In order to demonstrate their understanding of the course content, students will be required to submit 10 Assignments and a Research Project Paper.

Benefits to Our Learners

• Have confidence that the Course is credible and has high standards from a credible Institute.
• Know their programme has been designed at the right level, meets its intended outcomes and its assessment methods are robust, secure and appropriate
• On successful completion they gain a Diploma and Transcript with Intex Management Institute branding, a global leader in training that adds permanent value to their learning

Course Duration       :      40 Weeks (10Months)