Open-enrolment

Management Control

– Financial Relationships and Key Ratios

Learn how to understand, interpret and analyse financial reports and key ratios. Through a combination of theory, practical examples and current business cases, you will develop your ability to assess a company’s financial performance and understand how different decisions affect profitability, cash flow and financial position.

Date:

November 23-24, 2026

Lecturer:

Lecturer Johan Åkesson

Study time:

2 days

Language:

Swedish

Price:

16 900 SEK (excl VAT), lunches included

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Are you expected to read financial reports and analyse key ratios in your professional role? Would you like to strengthen your ability to evaluate companies and understand the financial drivers behind their performance? If so, this programme is designed for you.

The programme focuses on developing a solid understanding of how financial statements are connected, the assumptions on which they are based, and how financial ratios can be used to assess a company’s performance and development. Concepts such as cash flow, profitability, sustainable growth and financial balance are explored from both practical and analytical perspectives.

 

Theory is combined with real-world business examples and current events to illustrate how financial relationships influence organisations in practice. Discussions and dialogue based on participants’ questions and experiences create opportunities for deeper learning and reflection.

The objective is to strengthen your understanding of how business decisions affect a company’s financial performance and to enhance your ability to independently analyse companies using annual reports, financial statements and key ratios.

 

Faculty: Johan Åkesson

Johan Åkesson holds a Licentiate degree in Business administration. He has 25 years of experience as a lecturer and as a management consultant, sharing his time between academia and management consulting.

Johan conducts research on issues regarding management control systems. His main teaching fields are management control and management accounting, as well as behavioural aspects of these areas.

He is a highly appreciated lecturer in broad a range of executive education programmes for customers like Volvo Cars, SKF, IKEA, Investment AB Latour, Capio, VGR and the City of Gothenburg, lecturing on topics like performance management and basic management accounting – concepts, definitions, and relationships.

 Since 2019 Johan also teaches the Management Accounting programme module of the Executive MBA programme (60 hec) at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg.

Target group:
Personnel in leadership positions with direct or indirect financial responsibility. The program is also intended for individuals who wish to strengthen their ability to perform financial analyses of companies. The program is industry-independent.

NB: The programme is delivered in Swedish.

DAY 1 and 2

  • Accounting concepts and the underlying assumptions behind them
  • Fundamental financial relationships – profit, cash flow, and financial structure
  • Financial statements – their logic, interconnections, and analytical applications
  • How to read an annual report
  • Review of key financial ratios relating to profitability, cash flow, and financial stability
  • Multi-year analysis of a selected publicly listed company
  • What profitable growth means as a business objective and how it influences financing decisions and risk management over time.

Date and place:
November 23-24, 2026 – at the School of Business, Economics and Law

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General conditions for applying to open-enrolment programmes

Once we receive your application, you will receive a confirmation by e-mail. The confirmation will contain all practical information. We will send you an invoice for the programme fee 14 days before it starts. Should there be too few applications, we reserve the right to cancel the programme. In such case, you will be notified by e-mail.

Cancellation

In case you wish to cancel your application a written cancellation needs to be sent via e-mail. This can be done without cost up to 28 days before programme start. Cancellation within 14-27 days before programme start will be charged with 50% of the programme fee. Cancelling less than 14 days means the entire fee will be charged. In case of cancellation, you are welcome to find a replacement to take your seat.

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