Strategy and Finance for Value Creation
A practical 3-day Cambridge programme for senior leaders who need to make clear strategic choices, test whether they will create value, and translate them into funded, executable plans.
Upcoming programmes
Format:
Dates:
Duration:
Fees:
Face-to-face
25-27 Jan 2027
3 days
£4,800 + VAT
Face-to-face
10-12 May 2027
3 days
£4,800 + VAT
Upcoming programmes
Format:
Face-to-face
Dates:
25-27 Jan 2027
Duration:
3 days
Fees:
£4,800 + VAT
Format:
Face-to-face
Dates:
10-12 May 2027
Duration:
3 days
Fees:
£4,800 + VAT
Overview
A strong strategy must do more than set a direction. It needs to be financially viable, attract the right investment and be supported by an organisation capable of delivering it.
Strategy and Finance for Value Creation brings strategy, finance and execution together. Over 3 intensive days, you will assess your strategy against market attractiveness, competitive advantage and financial performance; make clear choices about where to play and how to win; and explore the funding, capabilities and operating model needed to put those choices into practice.
Through case work, group exercises and a finance simulation, you will test the financial and competitive consequences of strategic decisions. You will leave with a strategy that is ambitious, financially sound and ready to deliver.
Benefits and career impact
Here’s how the programme can benefit both you, and your organisation.
- Make better strategic choices by evaluating markets, competitive advantage and priorities with a repeatable framework.
- Test whether your strategy will create value using financial analysis, Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and capital allocation disciplines.
- Translate strategy into execution through funded plans, operating-model alignment and organisational priorities.
- Build the integrated commercial perspective that connects strategy, finance and execution.
- Argue investment cases that survive financial scrutiny, in the language capital providers use.
- Pressure-test decisions in a finance simulation before making them in the real world.
- Strategic plans that arrive tested for competitive soundness, financial viability and executability.
- Sharper capital allocation: resources directed to the choices that create enterprise value.
- A common strategy-to-execution language across general management, finance and functional leadership.
- Growth and transformation initiatives led with confidence, from ambition through funding to delivery.
- Align strategic and financial decisions to drive stronger business performance.
This programme empowers senior executives with a powerful strategic-financial toolkit to drive impactful decisions. From connecting strategic choices to financial outcomes and optimising capital allocation, to leveraging the immersive Strategy in Action simulation and real-world, data-rich case studies, participants will gain the skills and insights to lead with confidence and deliver lasting value.
Programme content
Module 1: Vision, mission and level of ambition
Define corporate purpose, vision and a measurable winning ambition, and establish what value creation means for your organisation and its capital providers.
Module 2: Testing your current corporate or business strategy
Assess your strategy through three lenses: market attractiveness, competitive advantage and financial performance. Read your organisation’s financial health the way an investor would.
Module 3: Strategic choice
Make explicit where-to-play and how-to-win choices, test whether they produce competitive advantage, and confront the trade-offs of prioritisation.
Module 4: Analysis of financial statements for value creation
Use ROIC and other financial measures to test whether your strategic choices create value, and allocate capital across competing priorities.
Module 5: Simulation of strategy and financial outcomes
Translate strategy into forward-looking financial forecasts, capital requirements and a funding strategy that matches your ambition.
Module 6: Implementation and value creation
Align your operating model, capabilities and priorities; move from strategy into implementation, communication and organisational change; present your integrated plan and stress-test it with your peers.
How you learn: Face-to-face
Three immersive days in Cambridge, face-to-face with faculty and a peer group of senior decision-makers. The programme combines faculty input with case work and group exercises, and you will apply every framework to your own organisation’s choices. A finance simulation lets you play out the competitive and financial consequences of your decisions in real time, so the plan you take home has already survived contact with a market. You finish with team presentations of a funded, executable strategy.
Who attends
This programme is for the commercially accountable senior leader: a Director, Vice President, General Manager, Business Unit Head or senior functional leader responsible for shaping growth, allocating resources or translating organisational strategy into results. Typically, you will have professional experience and responsibility for a budget, P&L, investment portfolio or major strategic initiative. You do not need to be a finance specialist. If you have built financial fluency on a programme like Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers, or are taking on P&L ownership for the first time, this programme is designed to put that responsibility to work.
Recent cohorts include:
- executives seeking to strengthen the connection between strategy and finance
- technical and functional executives (engineering, finance, marketing, technology) transitioning to broader leadership roles with P&L ownership
- founders and leadership teams of high-growth organisations making allocation decisions under investor scrutiny
- operating partners in private equity firms and board members who evaluate strategic and financial plans
Faculty and speakers
Learn from our world-class faculty who bring fresh insights from their leading-edge research into all of our Executive Education programmes. The Academic Programme Director (APD) for the Strategy in Finance programme is Professor Khaled Soufani.
Director of the Cambridge Executive MBA Programme
Director of the Circular Economy Centre (CEC)
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Related programmes
Here is a selection of related programmes:
Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
Explore the fundamentals of accounting, financial terminology and financial analysis and learn how these concepts and strategies can be integrated to improve your own, and your organisation’s, performance.
The Cambridge and Financial Times Strategy Programme
This programme combines cutting-edge online content with topical interactive live webinars led by renowned FT editors, providing a flexible and immersive learning experience. Participants will delve into the fundamentals of strategy, learn to identify and leverage strategic assets, and master the intricacies of strategic positioning.
Cambridge General Management Programme
Broaden your perspective, create new connections and gain a deeper understanding of key management disciplines, including Finance, Marketing, Operations and Innovation. The Cambridge General Management Programme is an intensive 2-week programme that will stretch your thinking and increase your confidence. Designed to support your transition to a broader management role, you’ll improve your decision-making abilities and get ready to accelerate your career.
Speak to a programme advisor
If you have any questions or would like to discuss how this programme could benefit you or your organisation, please get in touch with the programme advisor.
