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Make Confident Fleet Finance Decisions
Develop the knowledge and confidence to understand the financial and tax principles that shape fleet funding decisions. This practical course equips learners with the essential skills to discuss leasing, taxation and whole life costs with confidence, helping customers make informed and commercially effective decisions.
Course Overview
Understanding fleet finance and taxation is essential for anyone advising business customers. This course provides a practical overview of the financial principles that influence vehicle funding, procurement and fleet management.
Learners will explore key topics including taxation, whole life costs, lease accounting and funding options. By the end of the course, delegates will have the knowledge to support informed commercial decisions and confidently discuss fleet finance with customers.
"Fantastic informative course. Thoroughly enjoyed it and the content was extremely relevant. "
Eleanor Chalmers, Harmoto Vehicle Leasing Limited
Who This Course Is For
Designed for professionals who advise customers on vehicle funding, taxation and fleet management. Suitable for both new and experienced colleagues looking to strengthen their commercial knowledge.
Ideal learners:
- Sales Professionals: Build confidence discussing fleet funding options.
- Account Managers: Support customers with informed financial advice.
- Customer Service Teams: Improve knowledge of finance and taxation.
- Fleet Professionals: Strengthen commercial and financial understanding.
- Business Development Managers: Understand whole life cost principles.
- New Starters: Build a strong foundation in fleet finance.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Understand fleet finance and taxation principles.
- Explain whole life cost and funding options.
- Recognise the impact of vehicle taxation.
- Understand lease accounting fundamentals.
- Identify factors affecting fleet costs.
- Apply financial knowledge to customer discussions.
- Support informed fleet funding decisions.
- Communicate finance concepts with confidence.
Key Benefits
This course provides practical knowledge that can be applied immediately to support customers and improve commercial decision-making.
Key benefits include:
- Improve fleet finance knowledge.
- Understand taxation and whole life costs.
- Build confidence discussing funding options.
- Strengthen commercial awareness.
- Support better customer decisions.
- Reduce financial risk.
- Apply practical knowledge every day.
Driven By You - Bespoke as you want it
Does this course sound like it could benefit a number of people in your business?
Consider our Driven By You option - bespoke courses and content, built to fit your needs, your budget, and your timescale. From small team sessions for 5 staff members to large-scale projects with 400+ participants, we can deliver it all.
No, as well as facilitating the courses online via MS Teams, we can deliver the course at any location – whether this is at our office or at a venue of your choosing.
As an Advisory guide Price, instructor-led online courses for 10 people start from £2,900 + VAT. Final pricing is bespoke and will depend on your chosen content, delivery requirements, business needs, and overall programme scope. Get in contact with us for a bespoke proposal at [email protected]
We would advise a maximum of 12 delegates per course but we can discuss any individual requirements with you to suit your needs.
Yes absolutely, we can work with you to ensure the course is exactly right for your colleagues.
We would not recommend this. For the best experience we advise each delegate should have their own laptop/iPad with a working microphone and camera.
Meet the Trainer
Jeff Whitcombe
Following a successful career with Arthur Andersen and Deloitte, Jeff Whitcombe, a Chartered Accountant with 30 years' experience, founded his own employee reward and employment tax compliance practice in 2008. Drawing on his already extensive automotive experience, within a few years Jeff had set up two other companies, which continue to provide specialist business car consultancy, training and software solutions to the motor industry.
In addition to being a BVRLA Trainer, Jeff developed whole life cost based software to support fleet policy reviews and decision making, the design and implementation of tax efficient schemes such as salary sacrifice, employee car ownership (ECO) and personal contract hire (PCH) affinity, and the preparation of tax focused fleet marketing.
Pricing
This live Instructor-led course runs from 9.30am - 1.30pm
*Book your spaces 2 weeks or more in advance of the course date and receive a £100 discount on the course fee*
Member Fee: £329 + VAT (Full Price £429 + VAT less than 2 weeks before the course date)
Non-Member Fee: £529 + VAT (Full Price £629 + VAT less than 2 weeks before the course date)
