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Business & Management · Year 1 · Foundations
S2 Management tools
Build spreadsheet models, reason with statistics, master financial accounting and run a project from scoping to closure.
225hours of coursework
23weeks at 10 h
4steps
18new courses
4universities
Target skills
- Quantitative models, risk and scenarios in spreadsheets
- Descriptive statistics, tests and regression
- Financial accounting: balance sheet, income and cash flow
- Designing and managing the organisation
- Project scoping, schedule, budget and risk
- Agile and waterfall methods
Semester project
The full plan of a real three-month project (breakdown, schedule, budget, risks), with a financial model under three scenarios.
Courses this semester
- 1University of PennsylvaniaBeginnerMicrosoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint
Stated prerequisites: High-school math through pre-calculus suggested
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Fundamentals of Quantitative Modeling — 10 h 4.6 (9,396) Introduction to Spreadsheets and Models — 8 h 4.2 (3,893) Modeling Risk and Realities — 9 h 4.6 (2,227) Decision-Making and Scenarios — 9 h 4.6 (1,735) Wharton Business and Financial Modeling Capstone — 16 h 4.5 (525) - 2University of MichiganBeginnerPython, Jupyter, Matplotlib, NumPy, pandas, Seaborn, Statsmodels
Stated prerequisites: High school algebra; basic Python recommended
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Understanding and Visualizing Data with Python Beginner 20 h 4.7 (2,741) Inferential Statistical Analysis with Python Intermediate 22 h 4.6 (938) Fitting Statistical Models to Data with Python Intermediate 15 h 4.4 (718) - 3University of California, IrvineBeginner
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Initiating and Planning Projects Beginner 5 h 4.7 (23,731) Budgeting and Scheduling Projects — 5 h 4.7 (9,393) Managing Project Risks and Changes — 5 h 4.7 (9,334) Project Management Project — 4 h 4.8 (3,425) - 4University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBeginnerAI chatbots
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Financial Accounting: Foundations Beginner 13 h 4.7 (4,678) Financial Accounting: Advanced Topics Intermediate 12 h 4.7 (1,774) Designing the Organization Beginner 13 h 4.7 (1,776) Managing the Organization Beginner 13 h 4.8 (1,553) Project Initiation and Planning Beginner 24 h 4.8 (153) Project Execution and Control Beginner 22 h 4.8 (69)
Reading
OpenIntro StatisticsD. Diez, M. Çetinkaya-Rundel, C. BarrDescriptive statistics, tests and regression.Free PDF
Project Management, 2nd EditionA. Watt (BCcampus)Project life cycle, planning, budgeting, risk and closure.Free, CC BY 4.0
Principles of Accounting, Volume 1: Financial AccountingOpenStaxThe accounting cycle and financial statements, with exercises.Free (OpenStax)
Things to watch
- Project Management Principles and Practices (UC Irvine) is short (19 h): take it before Illinois’s two project courses.
- Statistics with Python needs basic Python: Python for Everybody (free) is enough to start.
- Introduction to Spreadsheets and Models is rated 4.2: practise on the files provided.
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