Finance for Non-Finance Directors – IoD Certificate in Company Direction

13 Apr 2026 09:00 - 15 Apr 2026 17:00

This course will give you what you need to assess the financial health of your organisation. It will enable you to understand financial terminology, use financial ratios and interpret accounts.

BritCham Shanghai invites you to attend the three-day ‘Finance for Non-Finance Directors’ course, delivered by the Institute of Directors (IoD) on 13-15 April in Shanghai. This course can be taken as part of the IoD’s ‘Certificate in Company Direction‘. Download the full intro pack here for more details.

This course has been designed to demystify the world of finance for non-finance directors and senior managers. It will give you an understanding of key financial concepts and terminology. You will leave with the skills and knowledge needed to evaluate business plans, question financial information and contribute more effectively to boardroom decision making.

Objectives
To give you the knowledge and skills to:

evaluate your role and responsibilities in relation to finance
understand the relationship between financial and corporate strategies
outline ways of ensuring management reporting is effective and enables delivery of the organisation’s strategy
understand the key factors around funding requirements and funding options

Benefits
This course will give you what you need to assess the financial health of your organisation. It will enable you to understand financial terminology, use financial ratios and interpret accounts.

This course can be combined with other modules to qualify for the Certificate in Company Direction.

Deborah Morton-Dare DipIoD

Programme Lead,
Finance for Non-Finance Directors

Business Experience

Deborah Morton-Dare is Programme Lead for the IoD’s Finance for Non-Finance Directors course, and also a course leader for the IoD’s flagship governance course, Role of the Director and Board. Alongside her role for the IoD, Deborah continues to be both a company director and a trustee, and advises start-up and early-stage businesses. Her current roles include: Advisory Board member for a global risk and compliance organisation and charity trustee.

Professional credentials and training experience

Deborah’s broad career started with qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with a big four accountancy firm in London, working in corporate finance and gaining wide-ranging experience in a variety of corporates and financial institutions. The next stage in Deborah’s career was to gain experience as a company director, having set up and run several businesses and acted in a number of advisory roles. Deborah is also a professional development partner for the Investor Relations (IR) Society where she is involved in syllabus development, content and course tutor for the professional qualification in IR.

Deborah specialises in financial, governance and investor relations training for all levels of financial background, from beginners to advanced, and to audiences ranging from SMEs to FTSE 100 board level. Deborah’s training experience over many years encompasses a diverse range of organisations including corporate clients, financial institutions as well as public section bodies and charities, both in the UK and internationally. Examples include the Bank of England, LinkedIn, Microgen, Morgan Stanley, IBM, a number of Stock Exchanges and Westminster Council.

For attendees who want to join the course, please register your interest with BritCham Shanghai by clicking the button below.

The Chamber staff will check your details and connect you with a dedicated IoD staff, who will then guide you through the enrollment and complete your payment.

The standard tuition fee for course training is GBP 3,550 for IoD members, and GBP 4,150 for Non IoD members.

I highly recommend the Finance for Non-Finance Directors course. It has been presented in a sophisticated and professional manner, with comprehensive materials and a highly competent and experienced tutor. Despite having worked for several multinational corporations for almost 20 years in senior leadership positions in business and marketing, this course provided a valuable opportunity for me to refresh, reflect, and enhance my financial knowledge, enabling me to contribute more effectively to boardroom decision-making.

Phoebe Lou

Executive Director of Marketing and Communication,

University of Nottingham Ningbo China

As an over two-decade finance professional, the Finance for Non-finance Professional Director course actually brought me quite some refreshed views to my finance practice and reminded me of some knowledge gone over time. I would like to encourage senior managers of all background to participate in the course to benefit not only from the course itself, but also from the instructor and peers with diverse experience.

Jiang Wu

Country Head, UK Export Finance | British Embassy | China

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