Your benefits

• Learn how to read, understand and calculate key documents such as balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, financial reports and key performance indicators of railway companies and rail projects 
• Acquire a good and sound knowledge of the basics of accounting and controlling
• Gain competence in examining operational and strategic financial challenges related to the railway

Course content
This online training provides you with important accounting and controlling knowledge to help you aim for a positive financial result long-term. It leads to you being able to develop and improve your business skills, focusing on the basics of accounting and on profits and losses, to make the right financial decisions in future.

• Understanding the operational value chain  
• Get an overview of the structure of the profit and loss account
• Understanding financial reports and balance sheets, importance of investments and working capital
• Rating and international accounting
• Fundamentals of the cost and performance calculation   

Next Steps
To complement this course take a look at our course Online Training Economics in Railway Business 2.


IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR YOUR BOOKING
As part of our booking process, you will need to set up a My Academy account. Please note, if you want to participate in a course but need the invoice to be issued to your company, then registration must be made via company address. This means you need to register as a company. The registering entity and the recipient of the invoice must be the same. Please note that DB Rail Academy cannot amend any invoices after they have been produced! If you require any assistance with your booking, please contact us via email: db-railacademy@deutschebahn.com