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The Financial Acumen program is designed to provide you with the tools and insight to understand and communicate effectively on financial issues.
Course 1: Financial Accounting Explained
Learn common accounting tasks including creating journal entries and producing financial statements.
Course 2: Analyzing Company Performance
Learn how to analyze company performance in terms of profitability, liquidity ratios, activity and solvency ratios.
Course 3: Create a Financial Statement using Google Sheets
You will learn the elements of a balance sheet, set up a transaction tab and understand profit and loss data.
Course 4: Finance for Non-Finance Professionals
This capstone course surveys all the major topics covered in a graduate-level finance course, but with a more intuitive approach on a high conceptual level. The goal is to provide a roadmap and framework for how financial professionals make decisions.