“For anyone needing help understanding business finance, this is your guy!”

Weze McIntosh MD, Pure Potions

“Hi Johnny , Thank you SO much for your help and coming over to see us. I really appreciated your time and all your pearls of wisdom and have plenty to think about to help us take the business to the next level.”

Susanna

“I attended your workshop this weekend at the Bread and Butter festival which was great as it left me feeling a lot more confident understanding all the financial documents involved and required for investors. All the best and thank you for the informative lesson!”

Mirjam

“I’m applying for a small business loan, and have found the Talk Money videos and your handbook really useful; it really did help having started trading and having figures to put into the cash flow to really be able to understand the finances at a different level. Thanks so much… I have an accountant at the moment, but I am trying out Xero and seeing how much of it I can do to keep track of my finances as the day goes by. Because as you say cash is king (or Queen!).”

Clover

“Thanks Johnny! It really was most helpful, thanks for squeezing me in. You have given me a clearer understanding of managing my business’s finances.”

Lucy B

“I greatly value your clear thinking on the board.”

Dick Onians, Managing Director, Baring Venture Partners

“You must make commercial decisions based on what you know you can afford. Follow Johnny’s clear and practical, simple to follow advice to help you thoroughly understand how business finances work.”

Lara Morgan – founder Pacific Direct & UKTI Ambassador

“I thought the course was fabulous because I actually understood the basic principles of cash flow, balance sheet and profit and loss. The course was taught in a less formal way than one would in a financial training course which made it easier to understand to learn. Overall, I really liked the course, I found it very helpful and it’s been really great of you to upload all the documents, excel models after each class. I really learned a lot and enjoyed it!”

Nadia

“I looked through your videos – they look good and the principle behind it is definitely useful, and I think there could even be an idea of EMCA students viewing them before starting the EMCA finance unit, so could be a great way of getting up to speed.”

Simon

“This enterprise and financial management in cultural production has been an enjoyable and high level learning experience and I feel that the method and techniques related to finance, I learned on the unit helped me to make this business plan much better than if I had tried to develop such a project without the theory.“

Arash

“I really enjoy your classes. You cover the important topics that we need to learn step by step, and like Weronika said you add a human touch to what would otherwise be numbers numbers and numbers.” 

Jenny

“Thank you very much to the connection to your film. It is really very good and I agree with you about the necessity for training people to understand this stuff by taking the mystery out of it. To be honest there are a lot of people who are already supposed to be in business who could use a simple refresher on many of these points.” 

Tim Smit, Founder Eden Project

“Thank you for your brilliant jam packed day on finance at LCC. Believe it or not I came home and began sorting things out straight away, as tired as I was. Much to be done! As I mentioned to you I work at the Royal British Society of Sculptors as the Education Projects Manager and organise professional development seminars for sculptors on various aspects around making a living. It would be wonderful if you could lead the seminar on finance coming up.”

Julie

“I thought the course was fabulous because I actually understood the basic principles of cash flow, balance sheet and profit and loss. The course was taught in a less formal way than one would in a financial training course which made it easier to understand to learn. Overall, I really liked the course, I found it very helpful and it’s been really great of you to upload all the documents, excel models after each class. I really learned a lot and enjoyed it!”

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