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Business and Financial Modeling

Senthil Veeraraghavan, Sergei Savin, Richard Lambert, Robert W. Holthausen, Don Huesman, and Richard Waterman

Wharton's Business and Financial Modeling Specialization is designed to help you make informed business and financial decisions. These foundational courses will introduce you to spreadsheet models, modeling techniques, and common applications for investment analysis, company valuation, forecasting, and more. When you complete the Specialization, you'll be ready to use your own data to describe realities, build scenarios, and predict performance.

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Five courses

Fundamentals of Quantitative Modeling

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How can you put data to work for you? Specifically, how can numbers in a spreadsheet tell us about present and past business activities, and how can we use them to forecast the future? The answer is in building quantitative models, and this course is designed to help you understand the fundamentals of this critical business skill.

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Introduction to Spreadsheets and Models

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The simple spreadsheet is one of the most powerful data analysis tools available. Major corporations and small businesses use spreadsheet models to map data and predict future outcomes. This course introduces basic spreadsheet tools and formulas, enabling you to build models and decision trees in future courses.

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Modeling Risk and Realities

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Useful quantitative models help you make informed decisions. Learn how to create models to reflect complex realities, and how to include elements of risk and uncertainty. You’ll also learn the methods for creating predictive models for identifying optimal choices, and how those choices change in response to changes in the model’s assumptions. You’ll also learn the basics of the measurement and management of risk.

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Decision-Making and Scenarios

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This course teaches you how to use quantitative models to make better business decisions. You'll learn how to use models to facilitate decision-making and structure decision-making for optimum results. Wharton professors will show you the step-by-step processes of modeling common business and financial scenarios.

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Wharton Business and Financial Modeling Capstone

In this Capstone, you will recommend a business strategy based on a data model you've constructed. Using quantitative models, you will identify opportunities for success and minimize risk. You will present your findings in a professional PowerPoint presentation.

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Learning objectives

Create your own quantitative models
Harness the power of spreadsheets to map and predict data

Understand the measurement and management of risk
Structure your decision-making for optimum results

Create your own quantitative models
Harness the power of spreadsheets to map and predict data
Understand the measurement and management of risk
Structure your decision-making for optimum results

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Time

16 hours

Level

Introductory

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Coursera

Institution

University of Pennsylvania

Instructors

Senthil Veeraraghavan

Sergei Savin

Richard Lambert

Robert W. Holthausen

Don Huesman

Richard Waterman

Level

Introductory

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