Professional Development Certificate:
Business Acumen

Based on feedback received from companies like yours, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Professional Development Certificate: Business Acumen boosts your business acumen credentials. It covers essential business management strategies and skills needed by leaders in organizations. You'll discover ways to gain a better understanding of how your business makes money, make decisions based on that knowledge, and execute those decisions to achieve desired results. In short, you will learn how to think and act like the owner, developing key performance indicators for your most important business activities.

Involved in an industry niche, such as health care or insurance?  The certificate's core course Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Executives may be substituted by an alternative course: Financial Management for Non-Financial Insurance Executives or Financial Management for the Health Care Professional. For more information, call program coordinator Gina Srenaski at 608-441-7316.