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Mark Potter, Rick Cleary, Nathan Karst, Davit Khachatryan, George Recck, Babak Zafari, and Peter Wilson

Literacy in business financials, regardless of your industry, is essential for growing your career in management. Whether you are working within an organization or have your own business, the decisions you make affect the health of the business. You must interpret and forecast the impact of your decisions to ensure you are making the best recommendation for the firm. Through the four pillars of financial decision-making: Accounting, Finance, Data Analysis and Economics, you can become a successful entrepreneur or intrapreneur.

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Literacy in business financials, regardless of your industry, is essential for growing your career in management. Whether you are working within an organization or have your own business, the decisions you make affect the health of the business. You must interpret and forecast the impact of your decisions to ensure you are making the best recommendation for the firm. Through the four pillars of financial decision-making: Accounting, Finance, Data Analysis and Economics, you can become a successful entrepreneur or intrapreneur.

This program will cover these four pillars in-depth - with each course devoted to exploring a particular topic and how it can inform the decisions you face in your career. If you’re looking to discover and practice the fundamental skills and methodology used in business today, this Professional Certificate program is for you. Some of the topics you will cover in this program include: funding, valuation, key performance metrics, financial forecasting, data analysis, and models of consumer choice and demand.

This program is best suited for professionals who are looking to grow their career into a managerial role where they will need to make financial and analytical decisions.

What you'll learn

  • Practical skills for evaluating and forecasting project ideas and decisions from various perspectives
  • An essential toolkit for analyzing and utilizing financial statements
  • How to use data analysis to inform managerial decisions
  • Economic principles that guide your understanding of the market and the relationship between price and quantity

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Three courses

Financial Analysis for Decision Making

(20 hours)
How do you find the money to effectively manage your business? This finance course will take the mystery out of financial analysis and help you make the right business decisions.

Analytics for Decision Making

(20 hours)
Want to know how to make better decisions with data? This statistics and data analysis course will help you understand the fundamental concepts of sound statistical thinking that can be applied in surprisingly wide contexts, sometimes even before there is any data!

Financial Accounting Made Fun: Eliminating Your Fears

(20 hours)
Are financial statements a mystery? Do all those terms and metrics make your head spin? Do you avoid conversations with your finance leaders because you are not confident of your finance ability? This finance course will help you interpret and use the information contained in financial statements to make key operating decisions, evaluate business performance, and create forecasts of profits and cash flow.

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