Finance for Non-Financial Managers: Read the Numbers, Defend Your Budget, and Make Confident Money Decisions

18 chapters. 54 ready-to-use templates inside the book. Built on a program that has trained 150,000+ professionals atMike Pritula Academy. No accounting degree required.Here's the uncomfortable truth: you run a team, you own a budget, and you still can't say whether your work makes moneyor loses it.You nod through the budget meeting. You lose every argument to finance because they have the vocabulary and you don't.You approve spend on a feeling and call it a decision. Nobody trained you for the money side of your own job - so you fakeit, and hope nobody asks the follow-up question.When you can't read the numbers, someone else decides your team's future - and finance cuts your budget first. Whenyou can, you walk into the room with an answer instead of a guess, and the room starts planning with you.This is the exact system taught in the financial-management program at Mike Pritula Academy - built with finance leadersacross companies of every size, and put into plain English for managers who were never trained on any of it.Here's what you'll learn: - The P&L Read - see in sixty seconds whether your unit makes money- The Profit-vs-Cash Reconciler - know why you're "profitable" and still short on cash- The Budget You Can Defend - walk in with the line-by-line case finance can't cut- The Unit Economics Map - prove whether one more customer, hire, or unit pays- The Investment Screen - judge any spend with payback and ROI, no jargon- The Cash-Flow Early-Warning - see a shortfall months before it hits- The KPI Tree - connect daily work to the numbers leadership actually watches- The Business-Case Builder - turn any proposal into costs, benefits, and risks54 ready-to-use templates - all inside the book: The One-Page P&L Read - The Contribution-Margin Calculator - The Break-Even Finder - The 13-Week Cash Forecast - TheCAC/LTV Calculator - The Budget Defense One-Pager - The Plan-vs-Actual Variance Sheet - The Payback & ROI Calculator -The One-Page Management Report - The 90-Day Fluency PlanNo email walls. No resource pages. No broken download links. Every template is on the page.A two-day "finance for non-financial managers" seminar runs $1,000 to $2,000. An hour with a financial consultant runs$200 to $400. The classic desk references - Berman and Knight's Financial Intelligence, Siciliano's Finance forNonfinancial Managers - are worth owning; this book puts the same fluency to work with 54 fill-in templates none of themgive you. This one costs less than dinner.Every framework has been tested across functions - marketing, operations, product, sales, HR, engineering - and refinedthrough the thousands of managers who took the course it's built on.Stop nodding along. Start reading the numbers this week.