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Understanding Financial Reports for Supply Chain, Shipping & Transportation Professionals

March 19 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

This course is designed to help supply chain, shipping, and transportation professionals confidently understand and use financial reports to make better operational and strategic decisions. Without requiring a finance background, participants will learn how to read key financial statements and translate numbers into insights that impact costs, margins, asset utilization, and overall performance across logistics networks.

Key Topics Covered

  • Understanding the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement
  • Cost structures in logistics, shipping, and transportation operations
  • Freight, fuel, labor, and asset-related financial metrics
  • Budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis for supply chain operations
  • Capital investments, depreciation, and ROI for fleets, warehouses, and infrastructure
  • Linking operational KPIs to financial performance
  • Using financial data to support pricing, sourcing, and network decisions

Why You Should Join

  • Gain financial confidence without needing an accounting background
  • Make smarter, data-driven decisions that improve efficiency and profitability
  • Communicate more effectively with finance teams, executives, and stakeholders
  • Strengthen your strategic impact and career growth in supply chain leadership

This course bridges the gap between operations and finance—empowering you to turn financial reports into practical tools for better supply chain performance.

About the instructor:
Elliotte Locke
 is a fintech entrepreneur and educator based in Barcelona, Spain. He is the co-founder of abroaden and BCN Fintech, Barcelona’s largest financial technology community, working at the intersection of finance, innovation, and real-world business decision-making.

With a background in Business Economics and professional qualifications from the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments (CISI) in International Wealth and Investment Management, Elliotte specializes in translating financial concepts into practical insights for non-finance professionals. His work focuses on how financial data, reporting, and metrics drive operational and strategic outcomes.

Our goal is to help people in the best way possible. this is a basic principle in every case and cause for success.

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