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A financial analyst evaluates current and historical economic and business data to identify trends that influence business decisions. Gain the skills that make a successful financial analyst, including understanding financial statements, working with economic data, and analytical analysis skills.
  • Make business recommendations on investments.
  • Read and interpret financial statements.
  • Perform basic analysis of financial data.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Starting Your Career as a Financial Analyst
-Learn about career opportunities as a financial analyst in this audio-only course adapted from the Free the Data Podcast.

Course 2: Corporate Financial Statement Analysis
-Learn the ins and outs of financial statement analysis—the examination of relationships among financial statement numbers—to gain insights into your company's past and future.

Course 3: Financial Modeling Foundations
-Learn how to build financial models that can be used in corporate finance, investment banking, and for firm valuation.

Course 4: Financial Modeling and Forecasting Financial Statements
-Learn how to create forecasted financial statements for your company, including forecasted income statements, forecasted balance sheets, and forecasted statements of cash flow.

Course 5: Excel Modeling Tips and Tricks
-Learn to build effective and versatile financial models to forecast sales, profits, operations, costs, assets and liabilities, and more in Microsoft Excel.

Course 6: Data, Economic Modeling, and Forecasting with Stata
-Data analysis, modeling, and forecasting are increasingly important for many jobs. This course shows how to use Stata to easily learn data, modeling, and forecasting basics.

Taught by

Mike Figliuolo, Jim Stice, Michael M., Curtis Frye, Oz du Soleil, Jim Stice, Jim Stice, Jim Stice, Stefan Michel✅ and Michael M.

Reviews

4.8 rating, based on 5 Class Central reviews

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  • Profile image for Muhammad Tariq Khan
    Muhammad Tariq Khan @mtkhan006
    4
    I highly recommend this financial analyst program! The course material was thorough and covered all key aspects of financial analysis. The instructors were knowledgeable and engaging, and the real-world case studies were invaluable in developing practical skills. A great investment in my career!"
  • Keshav Pareek
    2
    To those that want to have a vast understanding of finacial analysis and finacial accounting i recommend taking this course.
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    Student Student
    1
    I have a solid background in math and algorithms and problem-solving skills, so i eager to learn Finance and that's the course the first step to me to making good projects that help the humanity for an easy life and solve the big problem.
  • PREETI SHARMA
    1
    very informative course. To complete this course you need strong math background. Very help for people in field of finance
  • Moses Mtonga
    To those that want to have a vast understanding of finacial analysis and finacial accounting i recommend taking this course.
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