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Financial Forecasting with Analytics Essential Training

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Overview

Syllabus

Introduction
  • The role that analytics plays in financial forecasting
1. The Basics
  • What is analytics?
  • Business intelligence and company financials
  • Conventional financial forecasting
  • Basics of financial regression analysis
  • Predict values with regression analysis
  • Doing a forecast in Excel
2. Financial Metrics
  • Financial forecasting applications
  • Using data in Excel
  • Decision-making with data
3. Forecasting in Finance
  • Decide on a finance question
  • Gather financial data
  • Clean financial data
4. Performing Forecasting
  • Applied forecasting with data
  • Regressions for forecasting
  • Using Excel for regressions
5. Interpret Forecast Results
  • What do the results mean?
  • Confidence intervals around the result
  • Stress testing the results
Conclusion
  • Continuing your financial forecasting learning path

Taught by

Michael McDonald

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4.6 rating at LinkedIn Learning based on 320 ratings

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