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Financial Analysis for Business Performance: Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting 

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Financial Analysis for Business Performance: Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting
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Overview

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

900

Mode of learning

Online

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Credential

Certificate

Financial Analysis for Business Performance: Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting
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FutureLearn 
Highlights

  • Duration 4 weeks
  • Weekly study 4 hours
  • 100% online Learn at your own pace
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Financial Analysis for Business Performance: Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting
 at 
FutureLearn 
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More about this course
  • Strong skills in budgeting and planning are in demand for a variety of roles - whether you're interested in starting a career as an accountant, business analyst, or consultant, or even if you want to start your own business and need to manage these areas yourself.
  • This course provides an introduction to financial analysis, showing you the main tools that you have in order to start analyzing and optimizing for business performance. You will learn to find your way around a balance sheet, understand financial performance analysis, and determine which analysis tools to use for each.
  • Countless businesses fail because of a poor grasp of their financials, and a lack of proper analysis when making key business decisions. You'll explore the key function and purpose of business planning and budgeting, and how they contribute towards business goals.
  • Financial analysis includes interpretation of a business financial statements to diagnose profitability, helping the business to make sound decisions with full knowledge of its performance, expected revenue, and margins. You'll learn to differentiate and deploy different analysis tools to provide business insights.
  • Putting your knowledge into practice, you'll perform and interpret key analyses to create a set of performance metrics to inform business planning and operations.
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Financial Analysis for Business Performance: Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting
 at 
FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Introduction to the course and financial analysis

Welcome to the course

Introduction to planning, budgeting and forecasting (PBF)

Fundamentals of effective budgeting

Week 1 wrap-up

Financial planning

Welcome to Week 2

Fundamentals of effective forecasting

Technology driven success

Effective planning, budgeting and forecasting in the digital age

Week 2 wrap-up

Analysis tools for business insights

Introduction

What is financial analysis?

Types of financial analysis (Part 1)

Week 3 wrap-up

Business planning and operations

Introduction

Types of financial analysis (Part 2)

Set financial targets and performance metrics

Week 4 wrap-up

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