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Financial Forecasting with Big Data

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Quickly create financial forecasts using big data, predictive analytics, and Microsoft Excel.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
  • Exercise files
1. The Basics
  • What is big data?
  • Business intelligence and company financials
  • Basics of financial regression analysis
  • Predict values with regression analysis
  • Conventional financial forecasting
2. Forecasting in Finance
  • Decide on a finance question
  • Gather financial data
  • Clean financial data
3. Performing Forecasting
  • Financial forecasting applications
  • Applied forecasting with data
  • Regressions for forecasting
  • Use Excel for regressions
4. Interpreting Forecast Results
  • What do the results mean?
  • Confidence intervals around the result
  • Perform stress testing
Conclusion
  • Wrap up

Taught by

Michael McDonald

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