Financial Modeling Courses

Financial Statement and Ratio Analysis for Accountants

111 ratings at Coursera

Analyze financial statements from a user's perspective: read SEC filings, compute balance sheet, income statement and return ratios, assess dividend yield, buybacks and accounting quality.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction to Finance: The Role of Financial Markets

102 ratings at Coursera

Learn to value coupon and zero-coupon bonds, read stock quotes, evaluate projects with after-tax salvage value and depreciation, and measure the risk-return trade-off.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Forecasting Financial Statements & Valuation for Accountants

42 ratings at Coursera

Analyze financial reports from a user's perspective: use external and internal information, judge Non-GAAP adjustments, forecast financial statements, and execute simple and advanced valuation models.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Financial Reporting Capstone

40 ratings at Coursera

Apply accrual accounting to a full company case: record journal entries for inventory, investments, leases, pensions and equity compensation, then prepare balance sheets and income statements with EPS.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Financial Statements, SEC Filings and Ratio Analysis

25 ratings at Coursera

Read financial reports as a user: review accounting principles, navigate common SEC filings, calculate and interpret financial ratios, and detect accounting quality issues.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Artificial Intelligence in Financial Planning

13 ratings at Coursera

Explore how AI and fintech reshape financial planning: compensation models, adopting AI tools for client experience, generative AI as thought partner, and ethical bias concerns.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Financial Management Graduate Certificate

Analyze financial statements using accrual accounting, price securities with CAPM and multi-factor models, and set capital structure, payout, and hedging strategies using valuation and ratio analysis.

• Coursera
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

RiskWise: Insurance and Your Financial Future

Learn to evaluate personal risks and use insurance for financial resilience: loss and the law of large numbers, human capital, insurance operations, and industry roles.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Understanding Financial Statements: Company Position

1403 ratings at Coursera

Learn what a balance sheet reveals: define assets, liabilities, and equity, and read real companies' balance sheets through the lens of accounting as measurement.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Regression Modeling in Practice

274 ratings at Coursera

Build and interpret linear, multiple, and logistic regression models in SAS or Python, testing confounding variables, checking assumptions, and evaluating fit with regression diagnostic plots.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis - Lecture 1

2 ratings

Examines how financial-system dynamics, confidence shifts, and positive feedback can trigger modern crises beyond changes in economic fundamentals.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Financial Markets - Asset Allocation and Endowment Management

2 ratings

David Swensen examines endowment management through asset allocation, market timing, security selection, and responses to criticism of his investment approach.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Career Certificate

Financial Management

7040 ratings at Coursera

Learn financial accounting, investment performance evaluation, and corporate finance to evaluate strategic corporate and investment decisions, measure value creation, finance investments, and manage risk in capital markets.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 6 courses

Predictive Modeling and Analytics

607 ratings at Coursera

Build predictive models in Excel with XLMiner: explore and visualize datasets, fit regression and logistic regression, and grow trees and neural networks using cross-validation and ROC curves.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Finance for Non-Financial Managers

479 ratings at Coursera

Read financial statements, apply common sizing and ratio analysis, and use time value of money, investment decision techniques and cost of capital to guide business decisions.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course