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Financial Reporting with Confidence: Clarity, Compliance & Control

Training Session

04/11/2026

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Financial Reporting with Confidence: Clarity, Compliance & Control

Financial reporting is a key part of effective leadership. You do not need to be a finance specialist, but as a senior leader you need to be able to understand financial information, ask the right questions and use reports to make sound decisions for your organisation.

This practical session with Finance and Compliance Specialist Tony Clarke will help you build confidence in reading and using financial reports. The session will focus on supporting greater clarity, compliance and control, helping you use financial information more effectively in your leadership and decision-making.

PLEASE NOTE: This session is part of the Empowering Leaders Programme.
If you’re already registered for the full programme, you do not need to book this session separately — your place is already included.

To find out more about the full programme click here

Who is it for?

CEO, Senior Leaders, Trustees, Interim Executive

Date: 04/11/2026

Time: 12.00 - 2:30PM

Venue: CO3 Office, Belfast

Member Price: 129

Non-member Price: 179

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Why Financial Reporting Matters for Leaders

Good financial leadership is about more than reviewing figures. Leaders need clear, reliable financial information to understand how their organisation is performing, identify potential issues and make informed decisions.

This session will help you become more confident in how you approach financial reports, giving you greater clarity when considering your organisation’s financial position and supporting stronger oversight and decision-making.

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By the end of the session, you will:
  • Have greater confidence in reading and using financial reports
  • Better understand how financial information can support decision-making
  • Be better equipped to use reporting to support financial clarity
  • Understand the role financial reporting plays in compliance and control
  • Feel more confident engaging with financial information as part of your leadership responsibilities.
Who will benefit most?

This session will benefit CEOs and senior leaders who have responsibility for financial oversight and organisational decision-making, particularly those who want to engage with financial information with greater confidence.

It is designed to strengthen your ability to use financial reports as a practical leadership tool, supporting clearer decisions and more effective oversight.

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This session is great for you if...
  • Financial reports can feel difficult to interpret or navigate
  • You want to feel more confident when reviewing financial information
  • You need to use financial reports to inform leadership decisions
  • You have responsibility for financial oversight but are not a finance specialist
  • You want to strengthen clarity, compliance and control within your organisation
  • You want to ask more informed questions about your organisation’s finances

This session will be facilitated by…

Tony Clarke

Finance Expert

Tony Clarke is a certified public accountant. He has in depth and detailed knowledge of the charitable sector including working with a range of funders and grant making bodes. Tony has a unique understanding of the wider sector and the challenges faced by charities especially relating to funding and increased competitiveness in the aftermath of Covid-19. Tony has a wealth of experience working with CEOs and Boards assisting with organisational budgets, preparing, and presenting management accounts and payroll workings.

What Members Say About CO3

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As a chief executive it is a very lonely job at times, particularly in small charities and Northern Ireland has got many small charities. So when you feel that loneliness or isolation, the one thing that CO3 brought was the ability to go and chat to somebody, whether it be a mentor or whether it be just another chief exec to bounce off.

Kate Fleck
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CO3 offer a wide range of courses for middle, middle managers, senior managers and chief executives within the third sector. Some of the programmes include the Leading Edge programme, there’s other leadership programmes available and then they also offer some micro learning sessions around how to present things like finances to your board of directors, reviewing your governance structure within the organisation and they would bring in some expert facilitators to deliver those sessions as well.

Martin Flynn
CEO, OCN NI

We’re delighted to get behind the financial resilience programme who, which will support a range of charity leaders from the small right through to the large, will really help give them the skills to be strong and be there for their communities for as long as they’re needed.

As a chief executive it is a very lonely job at times, particularly in small charities and Northern Ireland has got many small charities. So when you feel that loneliness or isolation, the one thing that Co Three brought was the ability to go and chat to somebody, whether it be a mentor or whether it be just another chief exec to bounce off.

Kate Fleck
Member of the Board, OCN NI

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