Finance Committee training

Business decisions shape the company’s future and employees’ working conditions. A well-organised Finance Committee helps identify developments at an early stage, scrutinise plans and provide the works council with well-founded information. Our courses cover the legal and business fundamentals needed and show how to build a consistent, strategic approach to the committee’s work.

Understanding and assessing business and financial information

What do the balance sheet and profit and loss statement reveal about the company’s position? How can internal reports, key indicators and planning documents be understood and assessed? We explain how these elements fit together and explore the questions they raise for the Finance Committee. Throughout, we consider business and financial information from the perspective of employees and their representatives.

Organising the work of the Finance Committee

We cover the Finance Committee’s rights to information and consultation and how to use them in practice. This includes gathering information systematically, preparing for discussions with company management and presenting the findings to the works council. Together, we develop suitable ways of working to allocate tasks, follow up on outstanding questions and organise communication with the works council.

In-house courses tailored to your company

We tailor our in-house courses to committee members’ existing knowledge, the questions they face and the way the committee organises its work. We can work with internal company documents available to the Finance Committee: together, we analyse reports and plans, explain what they can tell us and identify information gaps and points for further questions. This connects the development of business and financial knowledge with practical improvements to the committee’s work.

Introductory training in our open course programme

Our English-language course “Effective organisation of the Finance Committee” also offers an introduction to the committee’s work as part of our open course programme. It combines legal fundamentals, basic business and financial knowledge, and practical aspects of organising the committee’s work, with opportunities to exchange experiences with members of other committees.