Since 1991, the Financial Training Institute (FTI) has specialized in the financial training of non-financial healthcare professionals through the offering of public seminars, on-site training, and consulting. FTI has as its professional training consultant, Frank Capone, CPA, and MBA, who is a former healthcare chief financial officer and has designed and conducted over 1,000 financial seminars for thousands of non-financial healthcare professionals since 1984.

 FTI believes in the following principles of financial training:

• Keep training simple, practical, relevant, and lively.
• Deliver skills today which can be used tomorrow.
• Motivate participants concurrently while training.
• Focus on issues rather than theoretical detail.
• Continue to build on prior trainee knowledge base with new concepts.

 FTI believes in the following approach to financial training:

• Identify training needs prior to conducting training
• Provide a training manual for both actual training and future trainee reference
• Utilize lecture, discussion, illustration, case study, and exercises in training

The core of most financial training modules for non financial healthcare professionals are based on the four basic components of financial management:

• Financial terms, principles, and concepts
• Statistical concepts and applications thereof
• Planning, preparing, and controlling budgets
• Reading and analyzing financial responsibility reports for decision making

 Following are the primary financial training workshops available:

• Financial Management Basics For Non Financial Managers And Supervisors
• How To Manage Your Budget
• Financial Management Basics For Nursing Professionals
• How To Manage Nursing Budgets And Staffing Plans
• How To Design, Read, And Analyze Responsibility Reports
• Finance Basics