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Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Save time and energy getting your data in and out of QuickBooks and Excel. Learn how to import and export data, generate common financial statements, and process text files.
Businesses all have their own way of recording financial information. The challenge is getting all the data into your analysis software in a clean and consistent format. This course helps you import and export sales transactions, financial statements, customer lists, and other...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to use Excel to forecast sales more effectively. Instructor Michael McDonald offers a primer on sales forecasting, regression analysis, data set construction, and more.
Creating accurate and reliable sales forecasts is essential for any sales leader. Professor Michael McDonald shows how to use Excel to forecast sales more effectively, beginning with a quick primer on sales forecasting, then explaining the business intelligence used in forecasting...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to use Excel for key managerial accounting tasks. In this hands-on course, explore performing variance analysis, doing activity-based costing, and using ratio analysis.
Management accountants help executives make smarter, more informed business decisions. By providing advice and frequent, detailed internal updates, they help clarify their firm's current financial standing—and suggest how to boost profits going forward. In this hands-on...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Become a better accountant with the power of Microsoft Excel. Learn how to use it for general ledger entry, forecasting, business valuation, interacting with QuickBooks, and more.
Become a better accountant, bookkeeper, or financial analyst with Microsoft Excel. Excel can be used for profit-and-loss (P&L) reporting, forecasting sales, business valuation, quickly analyzing data from programs like QuickBooks, and more. This course shows you how to...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Quickly create financial forecasts using big data, predictive analytics, and Microsoft Excel.
Big data has transformed the world of business. Yet many people don't understand what big data and business intelligence are, or how to apply the techniques to their day-to-day jobs. This course addresses that knowledge gap, giving businesspeople practical methods to create quick and relevant business forecasts using big data. Join Professor Michael McDonald...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the opportunities that exist at the intersection of finance and technology. Explore specific applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in finance.
Roboadvisors, cryptocurrencies, and other technological innovations have been disrupting the finance world for years, challenging old ways of working with innovative new processes. There's even a word for the intersection of finance and technology: fintech. Curious about how fintech and...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to build financial models that can be used in corporate finance, investment banking, and for firm valuation.
By distilling key information regarding cash flow levels and risks, financial modeling helps decision-makers make informed choices based on data analytics that move their firms forward. In this course, learn how to build financial models that can be used in corporate finance, investment banking, commercial banking, and portfolio...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Use big data to forecast economic trends. Find out how to perform regression analysis for economic forecasting using Microsoft Excel.
Big data is transforming the world of business. Yet many people don't understand what big data and business intelligence are, or how to apply the techniques to their day-to-day jobs. This course addresses that knowledge gap by showing how to use large volumes of economic data to gain key business insights and analyze...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Leverage the power of Excel to become a more effective marketer. Learn how to use Excel to tackle product pricing, focus group response analysis, and more.
Curious about how to leverage the remarkable versatility of Excel as a marketing professional? This course shows you how. Join instructor Michael McDonald as he demonstrates how to use Excel in your marketing analytics workflow, explaining how to determine everything from what price a product...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to develop and test a rules-based trading strategy and program a simple trading algorithm for buying and selling stocks.
Many stock market trades are now conducted with algorithms: computer programs that buy or sell stocks according to mathematical formulas. These trades are conducted at a speed and frequency that is hard for humans to replicate. Therefore, it's important for finance professionals, and indeed everyone who invests in the...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Discover how to use Microsoft Excel to quickly create financial forecasts with analytics and big data.
Big data is transforming the world of business. Yet many people don't understand what big data and business intelligence are, or how to use that data to evaluate key metrics for their firm in the future. This course addresses that knowledge gap, giving business people practical methods to create financial forecasts with business analytics and big...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in business, and explore emerging opportunities in the space.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we interact with our mobile devices, our healthcare providers, and even our cars. In this project-based course, Dr. Michael McDonald focuses specifically on the applications of AI in business, as well as emerging opportunities in the space. After discussing the basics of AI and...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to make informed trading decisions by using software tools—like Excel, Python, R, and Stata—to build models or algorithms that use quantitative, testable investment rules.
Business intelligence is one of the fastest growing areas of business, especially for financial investing. This project-based course focuses on using different types of software to build models (algorithms) that can trade stocks and other financial products. Michael...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Discover how to use Excel for essential tasks required in corporate finance. Learn investments selection, determine your cost of capital, and perform operational budgeting.
Learn how to use Excel for the bread-and-butter tasks required by corporate finance and financial planning and analysis (FP&A) professionals. In this hands-on course, Professor Michael McDonald steps through how to leverage this powerful tool for capital budgeting and corporate...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to effectively navigate your finances to ensure you have a successful financial future. This course discusses savings, investments, insurance, and retirement.
How do banks work? Are you saving enough for retirement? Considering the answers to these questions and understanding financial basics is critical to planning a strong financial future. This course breaks down the mystery around the financial industry and provides practical knowledge...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Quickly create financial forecasts using big data, predictive analytics, and Microsoft Excel.
Big data is transforming the world of business. Yet many people don't understand what big data and business intelligence are, or how to apply the techniques to their day-to-day jobs. This course addresses that knowledge gap, giving businesspeople practical methods to create quick and relevant business forecasts using big data. Join Professor Michael McDonald...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to use pricing analysis to maximize firm profits with scenario analysis, price optimization, and data analytics in Excel.
Discover how to make smarter product pricing decisions that maximize your organization's profits. In this course, instructor Michael McDonald goes over using scenario analysis, price optimization, and variance analysis to model the data analytics behind pricing . Michael explains how to determine bundle pricing in a...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to leverage cutting-edge generative AI tools like ChatGPT to make more effective and profitable business decisions.
Generative AI—and ChatGPT, in particular—have captured the imagination of the general public as well as the interest of the entire global business community. While there are still significant issues and problems with generative AI tools, the technology has now progressed to such a pivotal point that it can provide clear...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to use pricing analysis to maximize firm profits with scenario analysis, price optimization, and data analytics in Excel.
Discover how to make smarter product pricing decisions that maximize your organization's profits. In this course, instructor Michael McDonald goes over using scenario analysis, price optimization, and variance analysis to model the data analytics behind pricing . Michael explains how to determine bundle pricing in a...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Leverage Excel to make sound investments. Learn how to perform key investment-related activities in Excel, including investment evaluation and analysis on a stock or portfolio.
Do you manage a portfolio of stocks or securities? Microsoft Excel offers professionals in the investment industry with a bevy of tools that they can use to make sound investments. In this course, learn how to leverage these tools and perform key investment-related activities...
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