Financial Mastery
Delve deeper into data and enhance your global perspective on all things finance—while also improving your ability to work effectively on teams as well as independently.
Courses in this module
Core Course
Collaboration & Communication #2: Teamwork
This course builds on the skills developed in Communication & Collaboration 1, moving from exploring your personal impact to exploring team impact. You’ll focus on conflict resolution and negotiation and influencing organizational outcomes through team decision making.
Key topics & skills
Team Collaboration
Team Diversity
Team Problem Solving Tools
Conflict Resolution
Negotiation
Bias & Decision Making
Core Course
Corporate Finance
Move from your basic knowledge of financial management to decisions such as debt and equity financing, dividend policy, and use of options and derivatives to reduce risk.
Key topics & skills
Capital Structure
Shareholder Distributions—Dividends & Stock Repurchases
Financial Options—Calls, Puts & Option Valuation Models
Tactical Financing
Core Course
Data Extraction & Visualization
Company data provides rich opportunity for analysis and business insights, ranging from financial to non-financial, and structured—such as dollar amounts—to unstructured, such as text from internet sources. Familiarize yourself with the data available, how to access that data, and how to use analytical tools to gain and present data insights.
Key topics & skills
Data Infrastructure—Legacy Systems, SQL Databases & Unstructured Data
Relational Database Structure
Extracting Data with SQL
Analyzing Extracted Data with Excel, Tableau & Business Intelligence Software
Core Course
Financial Management
Get yourself up to speed with the basics of financial management, with introductions to key topics such as capital structure, investments, risk-return relationships, cash flow, and company valuation.
Key topics & skills
Risk & Return—Statistical Measures & the Capital Asset Pricing Model
Company Financing Components—Debt & Equity
Alternative Approaches to Stock Valuation—Fundamental Analysis & Technical Analysis
Perform a Valuation of a Publicly Traded Company
Core Course
Global Financial Markets
Leave the comforts of your home financial markets and institutions and enter international finance—foreign currency, cross border investments, and additional risk such as sovereignty, currency, and inflation.
Key topics & skills
Securities Markets Around the World—NYSE, NASDAQ, Nikkei & the London Stock Market
Global Investment Considerations—Securities, Money Market Instruments & Foreign Direct Investments
Derivative Markets—Currency Exchange Rates, Inflation & Commodity Prices
Market Risks & How to Manage Them
Business Challenge
Business Challenge #2: Turnaround Plan for a Company in Trouble
Apply your analytical, critical, and creative thinking to form a plan for a troubled company. Your team will be faced with a daunting turnaround challenge, requiring you to exercise your business and financial acumen.
Key topics & skills
Financial Analysis
Financing Alternatives
Data Infrastructure & Analysis
Turnaround Communications Plan
Courses and challenges subject to change
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