The Fundamentals
Course dates: October 12 – November 23, 2022
Locations out there: 15
Deadline for functions: September 26, 2022.
The place: On-line through self-study interactive and animated modules (about 15 hours of studying) plus 4 one-hour group Zoom seminars with Finance Uncovered specialists – and a written and marked task on the finish.
Value: £400
Find out how to apply: Please full this type.
Why you need to do that course
Are you a journalist, campaigner or activist who wants a greater understanding of how you can use firm monetary statements to seek out and develop tales? Do you ever get caught looking for out who actually controls an organization?
Too many journalists have a confidence barrier with regards to monetary statements.
Our new Understanding Firm Accounts course is extremely regarded and accredited by the Persevering with Skilled Improvement certification service.
Facilitated by Finance Uncovered knowledgeable journalists, Nick Mathiason, Ted Jeory and Simon Bowers, it is a course based mostly on 4 structured on-line modules that may take you about 15 hours to finish over six weeks.
You’re going to get direct entry to FU’s trainers and have the possibility to deliver your personal case research or goal corporations to the desk to see if we can assist develop tales.
This course isn’t just about numbers: You’ll turn out to be a greater journalist, be extra in a position to maintain corporates and useful homeowners to account – and achieve an edge over your friends.
What latest trainees instructed us:
In ten years, we now have educated over 1,250 journalists and activists from over 90 nations. Members work for the BBC, Reuters, main investigative centres and over 100 from the Worldwide Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Challenge.
Campaigning organisations whose activists have taken our coaching embrace Transparency Worldwide, World Witness and Oxfam.
Our new e-learning course has obtained excellent suggestions from contributors. These are a number of the feedback left by the sensible reporting staff at Lighthouse Studies:
“I wished a crash course that allowed me to have significant conversations with specialists. That is precisely what it allowed me to do.”
I went into the course actually insecure about my abilities in something monetary/numerical, however each Nick and Ted have been extremely useful and understanding from day one – going by any questions, offering nice case research that have been actually partaking. Additionally, it gave me confidence to undergo the course with out doubting myself and I used to be very proud of the result of the task!”
“It was a terrific introduction for a beginner like me and total it made working with numbers far more fascinating than I had ever thought. I moved from a journalist who hated accounting jargon, to at least one who may problem myself to grasp it. And that’s all because of your course materials and the steerage from course instructors.”
Course construction
Upon getting signed up, we are going to ship out usernames and passwords to log in to the modules on our Moodle studying platform in the future earlier than the course begin date.
October 12: We can have a bunch kick off assembly at 12pm London time on Zoom. We are going to welcome you and speak you thru the course. Chances are you’ll at this level additionally counsel your personal goal corporations that we could possibly assist with.
October 19: Our first Zoom seminar to debate and increase the learnings from Module 1 which you need to full by this date.
November 2: Our second Zoom seminar to debate the way you discovered Module 2, the chunkiest of the 4 modules which dives into the three principal monetary statements. We are going to set easy assessments for you throughout this seminar.
November 9: Our third Zoom seminar to debate and take a look at you on Module 3, which largely offers with the Notes to the Accounts. After this, you enter Module four and take our task.
November 23: Our ultimate seminar to debate how you bought on and our suggestions in your task.
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Utility course of
Demand for this course will probably be excessive. We due to this fact ask you to finish this enquiry type so we can assist create a cohort that we predict may fit nicely collectively.
We are going to let by September 30 if in case you have a spot.
We are going to create a precedence ready checklist for individuals who should not chosen this time spherical.
Our subsequent course is prone to begin in January 2023.