Wharton's Business and Financial Modeling Specialization is designed to help you make informed business and financial decisions. These foundational courses will introduce you to spreadsheet models, modeling techniques, and common applications for investment analysis, company valuation, forecasting, and more. When you complete the Specialization, you'll be ready to use your own data to describe realities, build scenarios, and predict performance.
Programa de cursos integrados Business and Financial Modeling
Build Business and Financial Models. Use spreadsheet models to make data-driven financial decisions
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Programa de cursos integrados Business and Financial Modeling
University of Pennsylvania
About this Programa de cursos integrados
O que você vai aprender
Create your own quantitative models
Harness the power of spreadsheets to map and predict data
Structure your decision-making for optimum results
Understand the measurement and management of risk
Habilidades que você terá
Financial ModelingMicrosoft ExcelSimulationLinear Programming (LP)
How the Programa de cursos integrados Works
Fazer cursos
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Projeto prático
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Obtenha um certificado
Ao concluir todos os cursos e completar o projeto prático, você obterá um certificado que pode ser compartilhado com potenciais empregadores e com sua rede profissional.
Este Programa de cursos integrados contém 5 cursos
Curso1
Fundamentals of Quantitative Modeling
4.6
3,185 classificações
How can you put data to work for you? Specifically, how can numbers in a spreadsheet tell us about present and past business activities, and how can we use them to forecast the future? The answer is in building quantitative models, and this course is designed to help you understand the fundamentals of this critical, foundational, business skill. Through a series of short lectures, demonstrations, and assignments, you’ll learn the key ideas and process of quantitative modeling so that you can begin to create your own models for your own business or enterprise. By the end of this course, you will have seen a variety of practical commonly used quantitative models as well as the building blocks that will allow you to start structuring your own models. These building blocks will be put to use in the other courses in this Specialization.
Curso2
Introduction to Spreadsheets and Models
4.2
1,773 classificações
The simple spreadsheet is one of the most powerful data analysis tools that exists, and it’s available to almost anyone. Major corporations and small businesses alike use spreadsheet models to determine where key measures of their success are now, and where they are likely to be in the future. But in order to get the most out of a spreadsheet, you have the know-how to use it. This course is designed to give you an introduction to basic spreadsheet tools and formulas so that you can begin harness the power of spreadsheets to map the data you have now and to predict the data you may have in the future. Through short, easy-to-follow demonstrations, you’ll learn how to use Excel or Sheets so that you can begin to build models and decision trees in future courses in this Specialization.
Basic familiarity with, and access to, Excel or Sheets is required.
Curso3
Modeling Risk and Realities
4.6
1,144 classificações
Useful quantitative models help you to make informed decisions both in situations in which the factors affecting your decision are clear, as well as in situations in which some important factors are not clear at all. In this course, you can learn how to create quantitative models to reflect complex realities, and how to include in your model elements of risk and uncertainty. You’ll also learn the methods for creating predictive models for identifying optimal choices; and how those choices change in response to changes in the model’s assumptions. You’ll also learn the basics of the measurement and management of risk. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to build your own models with your own data, so that you can begin making data-informed decisions. You’ll also be prepared for the next course in the Specialization.
Curso4
Decision-Making and Scenarios
4.6
875 classificações
This course is designed to show you how use quantitative models to transform data into better business decisions. You’ll learn both how to use models to facilitate decision-making and also how to structure decision-making for optimum results. Two of Wharton’s most acclaimed professors will show you the step-by-step processes of modeling common business and financial scenarios, so you can significantly improve your ability to structure complex problems and derive useful insights about alternatives. Once you’ve created models of existing realities, possible risks, and alternative scenarios, you can determine the best solution for your business or enterprise, using the decision-making tools and techniques you’ve learned in this course.
Instrutores
Richard Waterman
Professor of StatisticsStatistics-Wharton School
Robert W. Holthausen
ProfessorAccounting
Don Huesman
Managing Director, Wharton OnlineInnovation Group- Wharton School
Senthil Veeraraghavan
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and DecisionsThe Wharton School
Richard Lambert
Professor of AccountingAccounting- Wharton School
Sergei Savin
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and DecisionsThe Wharton School
Sobre University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn) is a private university, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. A member of the Ivy League, Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and considers itself to be the first university in the United States with both undergraduate and graduate studies.
Perguntas Frequentes – FAQ
Qual é a política de reembolso?
Posso me inscrever em um único curso?
Sim! Para começar, clique na carta de curso que lhe interessa e se inscreva. Você pode se inscrever e concluir o curso para ganhar um certificado compartilhável ou você pode auditar para ver os materiais do curso de graça. Quando você se inscrever em um curso que faz parte de uma especialização, você está automaticamente inscrito para a especialização completa. Visite o seu painel de aluno para acompanhar o seu progresso.
Existe algum auxílio financeiro disponível?
Posso fazer o curso gratuitamente?
Este curso é realmente 100% on-line? Eu preciso assistir alguma aula pessoalmente?
Este curso é totalmente on-line, então não existe necessidade de aparecer em uma sala de aula pessoalmente. Você pode acessar suas palestras, leituras e atribuições a qualquer hora e qualquer lugar, via web ou dispositivo móvel.
Vou ganhar créditos universitários por concluir a Especialização?
Esta Especialização não carrega créditos universitários, mas algumas universidades podem optar por aceitar certificados de especialização como crédito. Verifique com sua instituição para saber mais.
Quanto tempo é necessário para concluir a Especialização?
Time to completion will vary based on your schedule, but we anticipate most learners being able to finish the material in 6 months.
Quantas vezes é oferecido cada curso na Especialização?
Each course in the Specialization is offered at least once every month, although they may be offered more frequently.
What background knowledge is necessary?
No specific background is required—this Specialization is ideal for employees, entrepreneurs, managers, consultants, or anyone aiming to hone their spreadsheet and modeling skills. Knowledge of high-school level math (through pre-calculus) is suggested.
Do I need to take the courses in a specific order?
Although you can take the courses in this Specialization in any order, we do recommend that you follow the suggested sequence of courses (Introduction to Spreadsheets, Fundamentals of Quantitative Modeling, Modeling Risk and Realities, Decision Making and Scenarios), especially if you are new to the study of spreadsheets and modeling.
What will I be able to do upon completing the Specialization?
In this Specialization, you’ll learn both how spreadsheets work and how they may be used to build scenarios, predict performance, and inform decision-making. At the end of Wharton’s Business and Financial Modeling Specialization, you’ll be able to use spreadsheets to create basic business models that optimize and predict outcomes, so that you can make decisions for your business based on data. You can use this knowledge to transition to a new career, improve your own business, or apply to business school to continue your education.
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