About this Professional Certificate
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
From | Babson College, BabsonX via edX |
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Hours | 72 |
Instructors | Mark Potter, Rick Cleary, Nathan Karst, Davit Khachatryan, George Recck, Babak Zafari, Peter Wilson |
Language | English |
Subjects | Business Data Science |
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Financial Analysis for Decision Making How do you find the money necessary to effectively manage your business? How do you know if a business opportunity is worthwhile? When should you invest in a stock, bond or... edX | Babson College, BabsonX |
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Want to know how to avoid bad decisions with data? Making good decisions with data can give you a distinct competitive advantage in business. This statistics and data analysis... edX | Babson College, BabsonX |
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Financial Accounting Made Fun: Eliminating Your Fears Are financial statements a mystery to you? Do all those terms and metrics make your head spin? Do you avoid conversations with your finance leaders because you are not confident... edX | Babson College, BabsonX |
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From | Babson College, BabsonX via edX |
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Hours | 72 |
Instructors | Mark Potter, Rick Cleary, Nathan Karst, Davit Khachatryan, George Recck, Babak Zafari, Peter Wilson |
Language | English |
Subjects | Business Data Science |
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Institutional Research Specialist in Data Analysis $42k
Professional-Data Analysis - SQL $63k
Business and Data Analysis $67k
Data Management and Analysis Fellowship - CDC $68k
Data Analyst, Marketing & Analysis $68k
Senior Data Analyst, Marketing & Analysis $77k
Data Scientist (Social Network Analysis) $84k
Analyst, R&D IT and Data Analysis Lead $88k
Data Management and Analysis Tech. $94k
Senior Data Analysis - ITSM Analyst $101k
Senior Data Analysis Engineer u2013 Engineering Data Analysis $149k
Data Architect - Financial Planning and Analysis $156k
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