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In diesem Kurs gibt es 3 Module
Organizations are powered by sound financial decisions: informed choices about resources, investments, and strategic spending that fuel long-term success. No matter your role, you can create immense value by understanding how to interpret financial data and make decisions that maximize your team's resources. In this course, you'll learn how to read financial statements, create effective budgets, and invest wisely to produce desired returns. Discover evidence-based strategies to analyze financial performance and guide your organization toward sustained profitability.
Let’s face it—money is the fuel that keeps your organization running. No matter your role, by understanding the fundamentals of finance, you ensure your team will make the most of its resources. Learn how to interpret financial statements, create a budget, and invest wisely to produce the desired returns.
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13 Videos34 Lektüren1 Aufgabe
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13 Videos•Insgesamt 33 Minuten
Tackle Finance with Curiosity•3 Minuten
Cash Is King—Don't Give It Away•4 Minuten
How Managers Should Read Financial Statements•2 Minuten
Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Intimidating•2 Minuten
Confronting a Bad Deal•3 Minuten
Realistic Budgets•3 Minuten
Understanding NPV•1 Minute
The (Im)precision of Finance•2 Minuten
How to Use Breakeven Analysis•2 Minuten
Look Beyond Obvious Risks•3 Minuten
Create Efficiencies•2 Minuten
Use Bad News to Your Advantage•3 Minuten
Face Your Fear•3 Minuten
34 Lektüren•Insgesamt 340 Minuten
Understand Financial Statements•10 Minuten
Why financial intelligence matters•10 Minuten
Accounting methods•10 Minuten
Three financial statements•10 Minuten
Assumptions, estimates, and biases•10 Minuten
Assess Financial Health•10 Minuten
Ratio analysis•10 Minuten
Valuation methods•10 Minuten
Other assessment methods•10 Minuten
Develop a Budget•10 Minuten
Definition•10 Minuten
Budgeting activities•10 Minuten
Budget approaches•10 Minuten
Prepare a budget•10 Minuten
Articulate your assumptions•10 Minuten
Quantify your assumptions•10 Minuten
Defend your assumptions•10 Minuten
KSS example•10 Minuten
Perform Cost/Benefit Analysis•10 Minuten
Cost/benefit analysis defined•10 Minuten
Return on investment analysis•10 Minuten
Payback period analysis•10 Minuten
Net present value analysis•10 Minuten
Internal rate of return analysis•10 Minuten
Breakeven analysis•10 Minuten
Sensitivity analysis•10 Minuten
Estimate unquantifiable benefits and costs•10 Minuten
Track Financial Performance•10 Minuten
Track your investment•10 Minuten
Track your operating budget•10 Minuten
Adapt to changes•10 Minuten
Build Your Team’s Financial Intelligence•10 Minuten
Why it matters to your team•10 Minuten
Financial literacy strategies•10 Minuten
1 Aufgabe•Insgesamt 30 Minuten
Finance Essentials Assessment•30 Minuten
Budgeting
Modul 2•7 Stunden abzuschließen
Moduldetails
Budgeting isn’t just for finance teams. Each decision a manager makes needs to take into account the resources that are available to them. Learning to budget ensures you can allocate resources wisely, communicate financial expectations, and keep teams on track with their budgets.
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12 Videos•Insgesamt 31 Minuten
Budget Impacts•2 Minuten
Opportunity vs. Cost in a New Market•3 Minuten
Budgeting in an Uncertain Market•3 Minuten
How Not to Lose Sleep Over Your Budget•2 Minuten
Realistic Budgets•3 Minuten
Embrace Uncertainty•3 Minuten
The Upside of Understanding Unit Costs•2 Minuten
The Art of Contingency Planning•2 Minuten
The Refresher: Net Present Value•2 Minuten
Deciphering Cost Variance•3 Minuten
Use Bad News to Your Advantage•3 Minuten
Adapt Your Budgeting Process for Dynamic Times•3 Minuten
34 Lektüren•Insgesamt 340 Minuten
Understand Budgets and Budgeting•10 Minuten
A definition•10 Minuten
Your role•10 Minuten
Why budgets matter•10 Minuten
Overview of the budgeting process•10 Minuten
Traditional and alternative approaches•10 Minuten
Types of costs•10 Minuten
Fixed vs. flexible budgets•10 Minuten
Limitations of budgets•10 Minuten
Develop an Operating Budget•10 Minuten
Seven steps•10 Minuten
Define your goals•10 Minuten
Articulate your assumptions•10 Minuten
Forecast sales volumes•10 Minuten
Forecast revenues•10 Minuten
Forecast COGS•10 Minuten
Estimate SG&A costs•10 Minuten
Calculate operating income•10 Minuten
Put it all together•10 Minuten
Prepare a Capital Budget•10 Minuten
Understand capital assets•10 Minuten
What is a capital budget?•10 Minuten
Understand the cost of capital•10 Minuten
Who develops a capital budget?•10 Minuten
Understand capital budgeting techniques•10 Minuten
Understand Sensitivity Analysis and Variance•10 Minuten
Conduct a sensitivity analysis•10 Minuten
Analyze variance•10 Minuten
Report variance•10 Minuten
Communicate news promptly•10 Minuten
Adapt Budgeting to a Changing Environment•10 Minuten
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