Financial Analysis for Business Decisions: How to Use Tableau and Financial Modelling

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Financial Analysis for Business Decisions: How to Use Tableau and Financial Modelling
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Overview

Discover how to use Tableau to visualise data to gain new insights, how to apply financial models, and how to do a SWOT analysis

Duration	4 weeks
Mode of learning	Online
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Credential	Certificate

Financial Analysis for Business Decisions: How to Use Tableau and Financial Modelling
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Highlights

Earn a certificate from Future Learn

Financial Analysis for Business Decisions: How to Use Tableau and Financial Modelling
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Course details

Skills you will learn

Financial modelling Business Analysis Financial Management Data visualization

Who should do this course?

This course is for those who want to support data-driven decision making based on financial analysis. You could be a finance professional seeking career advancement or better communication skills, or a manager looking to strengthen key finance skills.

What are the course deliverables?

Use Tableau to import data and create graphics

Compare common financial models and their functions

Describe how to to treat various assumptions

Explain the purpose of, and perform SWOT analysis

More about this course

Data analytics has become increasingly essential to modern business decision making processes. In few business areas is this more pronounced than finance- already a highly data-driven function.
For businesses seeking a competitive edge, financial analysis plays a central role in data-driven decision making.
This finance management course will equip those working in finance-related roles with the skills they need to prosper in this context.
In this course, you will learn how to use Tableau to import your data sets and create graphics to aid financial analysis.
You'll learn about different types of financial models, and their functions, in order to compare them. These models are important in financial analysis and data-driven decision making, allowing you to predict the future consequences of decisions.
Finally, you will discover how to conduct a SWOT analysis, looking at an organisation's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

Financial Analysis for Business Decisions: How to Use Tableau and Financial Modelling
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Curriculum

Introduction to the course and communicating performance data

Welcome to the course

Getting started with Tableau

Formatting and calculations in Tableau

Wrap up

Reporting and presenting

Introduction

Reporting and presentation

Wrap up

Financial models

Introduction

Financial Modelling

Setting the model

Wrap-up

Managing assumptions

Introduction

Other assumptions

Course wrap-up

Financial Analysis for Business Decisions: How to Use Tableau and Financial Modelling
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Faculty details

Alysha Randall (CPA)

Commercially focused Finance Director / CFO with experience working with fast growth online SMEs in different sectors, including two successful exits (Amazon acquisition & Funding Circle’s IPO)