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Financial Forecasting with Analytics Essential Training 

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Financial Forecasting with Analytics Essential Training
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Overview

Duration

2 hours

Total fee

899

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

Credential

Certificate

Financial Forecasting with Analytics Essential Training
 at 
Linkedin Learning 
Highlights

  • Earn a sharable certificate
  • 2 exercise files
  • 5 quizzes
  • Access on tablet and phone
  • Continuing Education Units
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Financial Forecasting with Analytics Essential Training
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Linkedin Learning 
Course details

More about this course
  • This course addresses that knowledge gap, giving business people practical methods to create financial forecasts with business analytics and big data
  • Join Professor Michael McDonald and discover how to use predictive analytics to forecast key performance indicators of interest, such as quarterly sales, projected cash flow, or even optimized product pricing
  • Michael uses the built-in formulas, functions, and calculations to perform regression analysis, calculate confidence intervals, and stress test results

Financial Forecasting with Analytics Essential Training
 at 
Linkedin Learning 
Curriculum

Introduction

The role that analytics plays in financial forecasting

The Basics

What is analytics?

Business intelligence and company financials

Conventional financial forecasting

Basics of financial regression analysis

Predict values with regression analysis

Doing a forecast in Excel

Financial Metrics

Financial forecasting applications

Using data in Excel

Decision-making with data

Forecasting in Finance

Decide on a finance question

Gather financial data

Clean financial data

Performing Forecasting

Applied forecasting with data

Regressions for forecasting

Using Excel for regressions

Interpret Forecast Results

What do the results mean?

Confidence intervals around the result

Stress testing the results

Conclusion

Continuing your financial forecasting learning path

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