Business review
Analyse a unit’s accounts and processes and propose five improvements.
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General Manager
Experienced professionals aiming to run a unit or site.
Marketing, financial statements, operations and organisational design, then corporate strategy and financial modelling.
445hours of coursework
45weeks at 10 h
3steps
16courses
3universities
Target skills
Business StrategyLeadership and ManagementOrganizational LeadershipLeadershipFinancial AnalysisBrand ManagementFinancial Statement AnalysisInventory AccountingProcess ManagementData AnalysisStrategic MarketingBusiness Process
Skill labels as listed on Coursera.
Target jobs
- General manager
- Site director
- Chief operating officer
Progression
- 1Illinois TechIntermediateExcel, Word, PowerPoint, Google Workspace
Stated prerequisites: Some related experience recommended
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Marketing Strategy Beginner 54 h 4.8 (148) Financial Statement Applications Beginner 85 h 3.2 (18) Operations and Process Management Intermediate 45 h 4.8 (215) Leadership & Organization Design Intermediate 113 h 4.8 (36) - 2University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBeginner
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Leading Teams: Developing as a Leader Beginner 14 h 4.8 (6,700) Leading Teams: Building Effective Team Cultures Beginner 14 h 4.8 (2,491) Designing the Organization Beginner 13 h 4.7 (1,776) Managing the Organization Beginner 13 h 4.8 (1,553) Business Strategy Intermediate 19 h 4.8 (2,100) Corporate Strategy Intermediate 11 h 4.7 (1,196) Strategic Leadership and Management Capstone Beginner 12 h 4.7 (395) - 3University 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)
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Projects to build
Merger and acquisition
Assess the strategic case for an acquisition and its integration risks.
Budget forecast
Build a unit’s two-year budget and cash plan, with scenarios.
Free textbooks
Principles of ManagementOpenStaxFree (OpenStax)
Mastering Strategic ManagementUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingFree, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Principles of Accounting, Volume 1: Financial AccountingOpenStaxFree (OpenStax)