Impact your financial decisions and learn how to affect the performance of your unit's profitability and of your organization. In this course gain a basic understanding of finance and accounting concepts to drive your organization's growth. Upon completion of this course, you will have gained general financial knowledge and an in-depth understanding of the impact of your decisions outside your functional area. Content of the course includes selected aspects of finance from a non-financial specialist perspective. Specific topics include: financial analysis; planning, forecasting, and budgeting; cash flow, and strategic financing. This class will be interactive and will require the active involvement of the participants in finance related activities.



Finance for Non-Financial Professionals
This course is part of Career Success Specialization

Instructor: David Standen, MBA
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Apply the concepts of accounting and finance
Understand key accounting and finance terms
Examine financial statements by using key ratios
Explain the importance of budgeting process
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Reviewed on Aug 16, 2020
This is very good course for non financial professions ,it give us the idea of accounting equations,financial statements,pricing or costing methods and market valuation in a very simple way.
Reviewed on Aug 26, 2017
An amazing course for someone interested in finance and entrepreneurship. The syllabus is exactly for someone who has less prior knowledge about finance which makes this course even better.
Reviewed on Aug 23, 2020
Excellent Course Covering the core concepts of Financial Accounting for Non-Financial Professional .David Standen presentation of the course material is very impressive and clear to understand.
Recommended if you're interested in Business
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