Financial Management for Non-Financial Executives

Gain financial acumen to make better business decisions. Learn to interpret financial reports, improve the bottom line and speak a common language with financial executives.

Counts toward the Management Development Certificate
Counts toward the Certificate in Leadership & Management

Upcoming Dates

Program Dates

Format

Time Commitment

Program Fee

8-13 Feb 2026

In-Person, Charlottesville, VA

6 days

$11,000.00

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Overview

You don’t have to be a financial expert to make financially savvy business decisions. This program will sharpen your acumen, expand your cross-functional influence and give you confidence to work alongside your financial team to guide organizational growth.

Intended For

Senior Management, Executive

Focus

Finance & Banking, Management Competencies

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Become a more strategic leader and expand your cross-functional influence, with a deeper understanding of finance. Led by Darden's top-rated experts in accounting and finance, this program focuses on building fundamental financial skills to:

Navigate financial challenges with your accounting and financial team, in partnership rather than dependence.
Translate financial reports and cost analyses into meaningful feedback for your team.
Connect silos to align organizational goals.

This program emphasizes the application and understanding of financial information, not its preparation; no prior finance or accounting knowledge is necessary.

Darden's New Home for Lifelong Learning

The Forum Hotel at the UVA Darden School of Business in Charlottesville is now open! We’re excited to welcome our EELL participants to learn and stay with us in this dynamic new meeting place.

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Schedule & Topics
The program begins at 6pm the first day with a welcome reception and opening dinner. The remaining days generally run from 8:15am-5pm, wrapping up at 12pm on the final day. Featured session topics include:

Understanding & Analyzing Financial Statements

Planning, Budgeting and Performance Management

Contribution Analysis

Time Value of Money

Evaluating Capital Projects

Using Management Account Information

Business Tax Reform

Ethical Issues in Financial Reporting
Impact & Outcomes
Fit key financial concepts into your corporate strategy.

Identify areas for cost savings across your organization.

Perform basic financial analyses to inform your day-to-day operations.

Make data-driven comparisons between the performance of business sectors.
Participant Profile
Location & Accommodations

Location

Darden School of Business
100 Darden Blvd.
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903

Accommodations

Lodging will be provided at our new on-Grounds hotel for participants of this program as part of your program fee. If you register within 30 days of the program start date, accommodations at The Forum Hotel cannot be guaranteed. Alternate lodging would be provided. We encourage you to register early to reserve your spot!

The Forum Hotel
Kimpton Charlottesville
UVA DARDEN
540 Massie Rd.
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Enjoy access to all the hotel’s perks during your stay, including morning coffee and tea service, on-site fitness center, Birch & Bloom steakhouse, The Good Sport craft beer bar and large outdoor terrace.

Anchored by the beautiful Tahija Arboretum and LaCross Botanical Gardens with outdoor learning and reflection spaces, as well as state-of-the-art indoor classroom and event spaces, The Forum Hotel is the new home for Executive Education & Lifelong Learning programming.

The program begins at 6pm the first day with a welcome reception and opening dinner. The remaining days generally run from 8:15am-5pm, wrapping up at 12pm on the final day. Featured session topics include:

Understanding & Analyzing Financial Statements
Planning, Budgeting and Performance Management
Contribution Analysis
Time Value of Money
Evaluating Capital Projects
Using Management Account Information
Business Tax Reform
Ethical Issues in Financial Reporting

Location

Darden School of Business
100 Darden Blvd.
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903

Accommodations

The Forum Hotel Kimpton Arboretum & Gardens

Lodging will be provided at our new on-Grounds hotel for participants of this program as part of your program fee. If you register within 30 days of the program start date, accommodations at The Forum Hotel cannot be guaranteed. Alternate lodging would be provided. We encourage you to register early to reserve your spot!

The Forum Hotel
Kimpton Charlottesville
UVA DARDEN
540 Massie Rd.
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Enjoy access to all the hotel’s perks during your stay, including morning coffee and tea service, on-site fitness center, Birch & Bloom steakhouse, The Good Sport craft beer bar and large outdoor terrace.

Anchored by the beautiful Tahija Arboretum and LaCross Botanical Gardens with outdoor learning and reflection spaces, as well as state-of-the-art indoor classroom and event spaces, The Forum Hotel is the new home for Executive Education & Lifelong Learning programming.

Earn Your Certificate

Financial Management for Non-Financial Executives counts as one program toward a noncredit Darden Certificate in Leadership & Management. Complete this program and three additional programs within a four-year period to earn your certificate.

Faculty

Paul J. Simko

Frank M. Sands Sr. Associate Professor of Business Administration

Paul J. Simko

Frank M. Sands Sr. Associate Professor of Business Administration

Accounting

Simko is an authority on capital markets, financial accounting, corporate financial reporting and disclosure, and enterprise risk management. His research examines issues related to financial accounting information. He is particularly interested in topics related to how alternative accounting treatments affect the decisions of investors and financial analysts and how investors assess firms’ earnings quality.

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Luann J. Lynch

Almand R. Coleman Professor of Business Administration

Luann J. Lynch

Almand R. Coleman Professor of Business Administration

Accounting

Specializing in accounting, Luann Lynch instructs Financial Management for Non-Financial Executives, which allows participants to gain financial acumen to make better business decisions. Learn to interpret financial reports, improve the bottom line and speak a common language with financial executives.

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Justin J. Hopkins

J. Harvie Wilkinson Jr. Associate Professor of Business Administration

Justin J. Hopkins

J. Harvie Wilkinson Jr. Associate Professor of Business Administration

Accounting

Justin Hopkins is the J. Harvie Wilkinson Jr. Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting area at the Darden School of Business.

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Al Collado, Director of Terminal Services at the Port of Virginia, shares his experience in Financial Management for Non-Financial Executives, "In this program, you learn a lot about finance, but it also changes your perspective on what finance really means in our world today."

Read more about Al's experience on our blog.

This program provides keen financial performance insights that enable me to have a better understanding of my role in our organization’s performance.

Cleveland Eason

Branch Head, U.S. Navy