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Corporate Financial Analyst
Career changers heading into corporate finance.
Accounting and finance basics, time value of money, stocks and bonds, spreadsheet models, then investments and corporate finance.
245hours of coursework
25weeks at 10 h
4steps
17courses
3universities
Target skills
Financial StatementsCorporate FinanceFinanceFinancial AnalysisFinancial Statement AnalysisCash FlowsFinancial ModelingAccountingFinancial AcumenFinancial ForecastingFinancial ReportingCapital Budgeting
Skill labels as listed on Coursera.
Target jobs
- Financial analyst
- Junior financial controller
- Corporate banking officer
Progression
- 1University of PennsylvaniaBeginnerMicrosoft Excel
Stated prerequisites: Basic high school-level mathematics
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Fundamentals of Finance Beginner 12 h 4.0 (1,151) Introduction to Corporate Finance — 9 h 4.6 (6,478) Introduction to Financial Accounting — 15 h 4.7 (8,571) More Introduction to Financial Accounting — 20 h 4.8 (562) - 2University of MichiganBeginnerMicrosoft Excel
Stated prerequisites: Algebra exposure, comfort with numbers
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Introduction to Time Value of Money (TVM) Beginner 13 h 4.8 (972) Advanced Concepts in Time Value of Money (TVM) Intermediate 14 h 4.8 (101) Stocks and Bonds Beginner 10 h 4.6 (425) Advanced Understanding of Stocks and Bonds Intermediate 13 h 4.6 (65) - 3University of PennsylvaniaBeginnerMicrosoft Excel, Spreadsheet Software
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
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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) Financial Acumen for Non-Financial Managers Beginner 10 h 4.5 (991) Introduction to Corporate Financealready taken — 9 h 4.6 (6,478) - 4University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignIntermediateMicrosoft Excel
Stated prerequisites: Some related experience required; statistics background recommended
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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) Investments I: Fundamentals of Performance Evaluation Intermediate 27 h 4.7 (944) Investments II: Lessons and Applications for Investors Intermediate 20 h 4.8 (903) Corporate Finance I: Measuring and Promoting Value Creation Beginner 22 h 4.7 (1,190) Corporate Finance II: Financing Investments and Managing Risk Beginner 17 h 4.8 (900)
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Projects to build
Forecasting model
Build a three-year revenue and cash forecast in a spreadsheet, with scenarios.
Discounted cash flow valuation
Value a company with discounted cash flows and test sensitivity to the discount rate.
Free textbooks
Principles of FinanceOpenStaxFree (OpenStax)
Principles of Accounting, Volume 1: Financial AccountingOpenStaxFree (OpenStax)
OpenIntro StatisticsD. Diez, M. Çetinkaya-Rundel, C. BarrFree PDF