CERT X470 - Financial Forecasting and Modeling
Description
Build the practical skills and tools needed to confidently forecast financial performance and support smart, strategic planning.Outline
Take the guesswork out of your business decisions. In this course, you’ll build the practical skills and tools needed to confidently forecast financial performance and support smart, strategic planning.
You’ll get hands-on with techniques like run rate analysis and scenario planning, applying them to real-world cases to predict what’s ahead for a business. You can use these whether you’re launching a new product, navigating market changes, or adjusting mid-year based on actual results.
Along the way, you’ll learn how to align financial forecasts with big-picture business goals, identify the key variables that shape outcomes, and spot potential biases that can throw off projections. You’ll also sharpen your Excel skills by building financial models you can immediately put to work.
What You'll Take Away:
- a clear understanding of how financial forecasts drive business strategy and decision-making
- the ability to predict financial performance using multiple forecasting methods
- tools to detect bias and keep your forecasts objective and reliable
- techniques for updating projections on the fly and forecasting for new products and services
- a capstone forecasting project that ties everything together in a real-world scenario
Who Should Enroll:
This course is designed for anyone who wants to strengthen their financial planning skills and use forecasting as a powerful tool to guide business strategy.
Course Format
This four-week course blends elements of asynchronous and synchronous components to provide learners with flexibility in project work, while also having face-to-face time with instructors and fellow learners via Zoom.
Each week students will:
- attend one 90-minute Zoom, during which students will participate in discussions and workshop their project with the instructor and peers
- complete three hours of assignments or project work
Students will be graded based on completion of assessed assignments/projects.
Technology Requirements
To participate in this course, learners will need:
- Access to Microsoft Excel
- If you do not already have Excel, you can access a free version through Microsoft
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Applies Toward the Following:
- Budget and Financial Management Certificate : Required Courses