Financial Modeling Courses

Financial Intermediation

Analyze how banks intermediate risk: bank profitability and risk metrics, finance-growth tests, bank runs and the 2007-2009 crisis, monetary transmission, bank competition, and FinTech disruption.

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

English for Financial Literacy B1+

Learn English lexis for personal finance: talk about budgeting, tax, investing, banking, debt management and retirement while practising speaking, listening and reading skills.

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

NPTEL;  IIT Roorkee

Financial Statement Analysis and Reporting

7 ratings

Learn to prepare and analyze financial statements through accounting processes, ratio analysis, cash-flow analysis, and corporate reporting.

• YouTube
• 1 day 6 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Accounting: Principles of Financial Accounting

3369 ratings at Coursera

Learn to read and interpret balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements, record transactions, and apply accrual versus cash accounting using Excel.

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

Modeling Prior Information to Guide Image Reconstruction in Radiation Therapy

Modeling prior information to guide image reconstruction in radiation therapy.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Exchanges, Brokers, Dealers, and Clearinghouses in Financial Markets

Explore how exchanges organize financial activity, how brokers and dealers operate, and how electronic and high-frequency trading shape market stability and fairness.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Forward and Futures Markets in Financial Markets - Lecture 15

Explores how futures markets work, from contract standardization and margin accounts to contango, backwardation, pricing, commodity markets, and financial futures.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Behavioral Finance and the Role of Psychology in Financial Markets - Lecture 11

Explores how personality, cognitive biases, prospect and regret theories, and moral judgment shape financial behavior and everyday decision making.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Efficient Markets Hypothesis and Its Limitations - Financial Markets Lecture 7

Examines the Efficient Markets Hypothesis through Sharpe-ratio manipulation, technical analysis, and competing stock-price models.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Portfolio Diversification and Supporting Financial Institutions - Lecture 4

Explore mean-variance portfolio analysis, efficient frontiers, the tangency portfolio, mutual fund theorem, and CAPM through the evolution of stock markets.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Technology and Invention in Finance - Financial Markets

Explores how financial inventions such as limited liability, inflation indexation, and swaps help society manage major risks.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Leverage Cycle and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis - Financial Theory

Explores how endogenous collateral requirements and leverage amplify asset-price booms and crashes, using the 2007–09 subprime mortgage crisis to test leverage cycle theory.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dynamic Hedging in Financial Theory - Lecture 20

Learn how dynamic hedging mitigates risk by adjusting positions over time, with examples from sports betting, mortgage prepayments, and bond markets.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dynamic Present Value - Financial Theory

Explores dynamic present values and backward induction to explain marking to market, mortgage amortization, and weaknesses in the U.S. Social Security system.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Introduction to Financial Theory - Why Study Finance?

An introduction to financial theory examines efficient markets, the leverage cycle, and their lessons from the 2007–09 financial crisis.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video