Financial Fundamentals
Familiarize yourself with the financial essentials while working simultaneously on your business and soft skills. You’re on your way to becoming an all-round global finance professional.
Courses in this module
Core Course
Program Immersion
Begin your program with an immersion experience. This is where you’ll first practice essential business skills to prepare for the program and assess your readiness on commonly used concepts and tools for industry and career preparation. You’ll begin to develop communication and teamwork skills, reflect on your personal journey, and build a strong foundation for your ongoing success.
Key Topics & Skills
Business, Finance & Communication Fundamentals
Academic & Program-Specific Skills, Tools & Essentials
Career, Professional & Personal Development
Core Course
Communicating with Impact
Effective communication enables leaders to grow their impact in the world as part of a global community. In Communicating with Impact, you will learn to use storytelling as a powerful communication tool to inform, engage, motivate and inspire others. You will also develop presentation skills for success in business environments by learning how to create and deliver a clear, concise, and compelling pitch.
Key topics & skills
Communicating with Individuals & Groups
Presentation Skills: Storytelling
Presentation Skills: Pitching
Core Course
Business Statistics
This course emphasizes statistics to solve business problems. You’ll explore descriptive statistics, probability and random variables with emphasis on inferential statistics. You’ll also cover hypothesis testing and regression analysis.
Key topics & skills
Probability & Inference
Sample Variability
Statistical Tests
Simple Regression
Multiple Regression
Core Course
Data Extraction & Visualization
Financial analysts are increasingly accessing internal and external databases to formulate recommendations based on data analysis. This course will cover extraction of data using SQL and analysis using Excel and Tableau.
Key topics & skills
Relational Databases & Entity Relationship Diagrams
SQL Queries & Data Extractions
Create Data Tables for Specific Analyses
Excel Data Tools
Tableau Data Tools
Core Course
Financial Accounting
Accounting is the language of business. This course will enable you to understand the principles and processes used in the preparation of financial statements. You will apply this knowledge to the analysis and interpretation of corporate annual reports.
Key topics & skills
Basic Financial Reporting
Assets & Related Revenue Accounts
Liabilities & Related Expense Accounts
Debt Capital
Contributed & Earned Capital
Core Course
Global Financial Markets
This course encompasses financial markets, their functions, and primary global actors. This course prepares students to work within US financial markets and institutions, then expands the view to international markets and their interrelationships. You’ll look at examples that illustrate the different structures, practices, policies and evolutions, which are shaping financial systems across the global economy.
Key topics & skills
Financial Markets & Institutions
Debt Markets & Stock Markets
Banking Systems and the Role of Government
Foreign Exchange & International Trade
Financial Crises & International Relations
Business Challenge
Business Challenge: AI Challenge
Put all your newly acquired knowledge and skills directly into practice at the end of each block through a practical and relevant business challenge. Teams will draw on the content and themes of previous courses in each block to complete challenges involving simulations, executive pitch presentations, innovation hackathons, real company challenges, designing new business models, etc.
Key Topics & Skills
Cross Functional Strategic Decision Making, Planning & Coordination
Analyzing Real & Simulated Business Cases
Team Leadership & Dynamics
Courses and challenges subject to change
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