Foundation ProgramsFinancial Analysis for Decision-Makers
Instructor: Mahmoud Chehade
Turn financial statements into decisions, with the analysis skills managers and business owners rely on.
An accounting course for beginners in Riyadh that starts from zero and finishes job-ready. Riyadh learners join a live online cohort or take one-to-one coaching, and employers can run it in-company for new finance hires. You build real bookkeeping and reporting skills step by step, with no prior experience required.
These are coaching programs, so the duration above is a guide rather than a fixed timetable. The pace and the number of sessions are set around your current level and how quickly each topic lands, so you finish genuinely able to apply the material rather than simply on schedule.
Instructor: Mahmoud Chehade
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Training a team? We tailor this program to your systems and industry, delivered live online or in person.
Vision 2030 is driving growth in finance roles across the Saudi private sector, and Riyadh, with its concentration of corporate and regional headquarters, is where many of those roles are. This course is for people who want one of them but have no accounting background yet: career changers, graduates from other fields, and new staff who have landed in a finance team.
You learn the accounting cycle end to end, record transactions, and prepare and read the core financial statements. Along the way the coaching explains the Saudi context a new accountant meets early, such as invoices carrying 15% VAT, e-invoicing under ZATCA, and the fact that Saudi companies report under IFRS, so the basics match the job you are aiming at.
Employers in Riyadh can run the course in-company for new hires or trainees, delivered at their premises in Arabic or English. Individuals join a live online cohort or book one-to-one coaching around work or study. Sessions are live and interactive, so questions get answered as they come up rather than piling up until the end.
Our office is in Beirut. Riyadh is served through live online cohorts and in-company training delivered at your premises. See all accounting training in Riyadh.
The beginner accounting course costs Riyadh learners the fee listed on this page, covering the whole programme rather than a single session. The plan is shaped around your starting point, so tell us your goal and we will confirm it is the right programme and its cost before you commit. Riyadh employers training new hires get a tailored rate.
In Riyadh it is a multi-week programme, and the duration is a guide rather than a fixed timetable. The pace follows how quickly each topic lands for you, so two Riyadh beginners can finish on different schedules. The aim is that you leave able to do the work, not that you sat through a set number of hours.
No experience is needed for the beginner accounting course in Riyadh. It is a foundation programme built for career changers, students and new accountants, and it starts from the very first concepts.
For a learner in Riyadh it starts with your goal and whatever you already know, even if that is nothing yet. We build around the gaps that matter, so topics that click move quickly and the ones you find harder get the time they need.
Both are possible in Riyadh: a live online cohort you join from anywhere, or in-company training delivered in person at an employer’s premises in Riyadh. There is no Balance Brightness office in Riyadh, and every session is live and interactive, never pre-recorded.
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Taught by Mahmoud Chehade in person in Beirut and live online, and delivered in-company for finance teams in Riyadh and Dubai.
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