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Over the past decade, the financial planning and analysis profession has grown dramatically. Learn the skills you need to gather, analyze and present financial data so you can become a Corporate Financial Planning Analyst, and begin working toward becoming a corporate strategic partner.
- Develop basic financial analyst skills required as a Corporate Financial Planning Analyst
- Demonstrate technical skills to execute effectively.
- Build leadership and communication skills to excel and advance.
Overview
Syllabus
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- Course 1: Strategic Planning Foundations
- Learn how to conduct an effective strategic planning process that results in a clear, compelling strategic plan for your organization.
- Course 2: Finance Foundations
- Get a basic introduction to the world of finance, from analyzing risk and return and obtaining financing to understanding how markets and banks operate.
- Course 3: Accounting Foundations: Managerial Accounting
- Learn the basics of managerial accounting to help you make better organizational decisions.
- Course 4: Managerial Economics
- Learn how to use economics to make better business decisions. Explore economic theories to strategize and solve business problems from demand and competition to pricing products.
- Course 5: Project Management Foundations
- Learn what it takes to deliver projects successfully. Explore the basics of project management, from building a project plan to managing progress.
- Course 6: Communication Foundations
- Build your communication skills. Learn how to communicate more effectively in professional situations, including meetings, email, and presentations.
- Course 7: Creating and Giving Business Presentations
- Learn the fundamentals of preparing for and delivering a compelling business presentation.
- Course 8: Financial Analysis: Making Business Projections
- Analyze past performance data and get a realistic picture of your company's future performance using Microsoft Excel.
- Course 9: Running a Profitable Business: Understanding Financial Ratios
- Explains what financial ratios such as ROA and ROI mean and how they can be used to identify financial trends or assess a company's financial status.
- Course 10: Excel Data Analysis: Forecasting
- Use Excel's data-analysis tools to create accurate and insightful forecasts.
- Course 11: Excel: Economic Analysis and Data Analytics
- Use big data to forecast economic trends. Find out how to perform regression analysis for economic forecasting using Microsoft Excel.
- Course 12: Financial Forecasting with Big Data
- Quickly create financial forecasts using big data, predictive analytics, and Microsoft Excel.
- Course 13: Forecasting Using Financial Statements
- Learn where a business is headed and the resources it will need to succeed. Find out how to build financial forecasts using income statements and balance sheets.
- Course 14: Finance Foundations: Business Valuation
- Learn how to value a business using different valuation methods, such as multiples, earnings ratios, and discounted cash-flow analysis.
- Course 15: Excel Statistics Essential Training: 1
- Learn statistics. Dr. Joseph Schmuller uses Microsoft Excel to teach the fundamentals of descriptive and inferential statistics.
- Course 16: Learning SQL Programming
- Learn the basics of SQL, the programming language for retrieving and editing data from databases such as SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL.