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Financial Management & Accounting Executive Education Programs

Learn. Discover. Engage. Evolve.

Do you understand the financial implications at stake behind corporate decisions? Are you optimizing your bottom line?

Numbers come naturally to some, and are intimidating for others, yet every organization needs metric and numbers-oriented leaders to guide decisions that make both logical and financial sense. Through a range of classroom and online courses in financial management and accounting, our faculty are here to help guide you to make the best possible decisions for your organization and to increase financial literacy through all levels of your business.

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Using Behavioral Finance as a Tool to Understand People and Drive Results

Open program, Hospitality-focused

This executive finance course focuses on how to avoid behavioral biases and errors and understand how to make better financial decisions, ultimately preparing you to think critically and strategically about the intersection of human behavior and financial decision-making at the executive level.

  • 3-Days on the Cornell University campus, Ithaca, NY U.S.A.
  • Pamela Moulton, Cornell School of Hotel Administration
Using Behavioral Finance as a Tool to Understand People and Drive Results
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Using Financial Intuition: Powerful Tools for Non-Finance People

Open program, Hospitality-focused

This executive education course for non-financial managers allows you to develop a set of intuitive tools to improve financial decision-making across a wide range of hospitality business contexts. (Note: this is a critical-thinking finance course, not a math-intensive course.).

  • 3-Days on the Cornell University campus, Ithaca, NY U.S.A.
  • Pamela Moulton, Cornell School of Hotel Administration
Using Financial Intuition: Powerful Tools for Non-Finance People
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Using Financial Tools to Make Profitable Operating Decisions

Open program, Hospitality-focused

This management course will provide an application of financial and managerial concepts useful in analyzing hospitality operations. Participants will learn how to use financial statement analysis tools to increase profitability and techniques to make more strategic operational decisions and how to best manage operating and capital budgets.

  • 3-Days on the Cornell University campus, Ithaca, NY U.S.A.
  • Mary MacAusland, Cornell School of Hotel Administration
Using Financial Tools to Make Profitable Operating Decisions
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Using Financial Tools for Strategic Value Creation

Open program, Hospitality-focused

This executive finance course will teach you how best to measure financial performance and value creation for hotels and how companies connect these metrics with the hotel’s strategic goals and its managers’ performance.

  • 3-Days on the Cornell University campus, Ithaca, NY U.S.A.
  • Steven Carvell, Cornell School of Hotel Administration
Using Financial Tools for Strategic Value Creation
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Cornell Income Tax Update School

Open program

This course certificate will provide you with an understanding of new tax legislation and enhance your knowledge with a variety of taxation issues. Appropriate for CPAs, enrolled agents, tax practitioners, tax and financial advisors, consultants, attorneys and others needing in-depth explanation and review of income tax reporting and management.

  • 2-Days at various locations around New York State
  • Earn up to 16 CPE Credits or 15 continuing education credits under sponsor ID 9FRDE (IRS).
Cornell Income Tax Update School
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Financial Management

Online

This online financial management certificate consists of courses that demystify financial terminology and concepts, giving you the tools you need to communicate fluently with finance managers and articulate business investment and project proposals to executive level decision makers.

  • Six two-week online courses, requiring approx. 36 hours to complete
Financial Management
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Management Accounting

Online

The management accounting online course certificate provides you with the tools you need to develop key performance indicators (KPIs) and reporting systems to improve the performance of managers and units all across your organization.

  •  Six two-week online courses, requiring approx. 36 hours to complete
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Custom Programs in Finance & Accounting

Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration and Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management both feature faculty with expertise in managerial and financial accounting, as well as strategic and corporate finance. Cornell Executive Education taps into this knowledge to create custom learning opportunities, both online and in the classroom, for organizations looking to invest in teams and become industry leaders in this space. Contact us for details of how we can support your organization.