Financial Modeling Courses

The Global Financial Crisis

12 ratings

Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner and Professor Andrew Metrick survey the causes, events, policy responses, and aftermath of the recent global financial crisis.

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

Stanford Seminar - Decision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Sequence Modeling

2 ratings

Decision Transformer treats reinforcement learning as conditional sequence modeling, generating actions from desired returns, past states, and actions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

More Introduction to Financial Accounting

5 ratings

Work around the balance sheet: account for bad debts, LIFO inventory, depreciation, leases, deferred taxes and stockholders' equity, then analyze a company's financial statements.

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

Fundamentals of Quantitative Modeling

5 ratings

Build quantitative business models: apply linear cost and production functions with optimization, probabilistic models using random variables and distributions, and regression for forecasting.

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

Databases: Modeling and Theory

6 ratings at edX

This course is one of five self-paced courses on the topic of Databases, originating as one of Stanford's three inaugural massive open online courses released in the fall of 2011. The original "Databa

• edX
• 2 weeks, 8-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Using Data for Increased Realism with Haptic Modeling and Devices

Explores data-driven haptic modeling that combines recorded touch signals and human preferences to create realistic textures, sounds, and social touch in virtual interactions.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - Multi-Sensory Neural Objects: Modeling, Inference, and Applications in Robotics

Explores object-centric, multisensory neural representations designed to help robots manipulate objects flexibly and generalize across tasks.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Stanford Seminar - Modeling and Interacting with Other Agents, Claire Tomlin

Game theoretic planning and real time behavioral models show how autonomous systems can predict and respond to other agents beyond worst case assumptions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Modeling Humans for Humanoid Robots - A Two-Level Learning Framework

A two-level framework uses human video to predict body and hand actions, then combines those predictions with teleoperated and imitation-trained robot skills.

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

Stanford CS336 - Language Modeling from Scratch 2025

Follow the full process of building a language model from scratch, from preparing pretraining data and constructing a transformer to training and evaluation.

• YouTube
• 22 hours 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Financial Acumen for Non-Financial Managers

990 ratings at Coursera

Read balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements, run ratio analysis with EPS, ROE, ROA and DuPont, and link non-financial metrics to financial results.

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

Personal & Family Financial Planning

16 ratings

Personal and Family Financial Planning will address many critical personal financial management topics in order to help you learn prudent habits both while in school and throughout your lifetime.

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

Career Certificate

Investment Banking & Private Equity Modeling Specialization

1459 ratings at Corporate Finance Institute

Learn financial modeling and valuation techniques used by investment banks and private equity firms while earning an industry-recognized credential

• Corporate Finance Institute
• 1 day 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Monthly Cash Flow Modeling

912 ratings at Corporate Finance Institute

Gain the skills to create a 12-month cash flow forecast model from scratch, complete with assumptions, financials, schedules, and charts, to analyze and inform business decisions effectively

• Corporate Finance Institute
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Presentation of Financial Information

861 ratings at Corporate Finance Institute

Learn best practices and key structural elements of an effective financial presentation

• Corporate Finance Institute
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course