Inhalt: Business intelligence is one of the fastest growing areas of business, especially for financial investing. This project-based course focuses on using different types of software to build models (algorithms) that can trade stocks and other financial products. Michael McDonald shows how you can use Excel, Python, R, or Stata, to set up quantitative, testable investment rules so that you can make informed trading decisions. First, he explains what algo trading is and how it works. Next, he discusses how to develop an algo trading strategy and shares tips for how to identify opportunities in various markets. Then, he goes through an in-depth exploration of how to leverage existing software tools. Michael also covers stock trading, bond trading, data analysis, regressions, and more. Note: Prior to watching this course, it is recommended that you watch the course Algorithmic Trading and Stocks Essential Training. Umfang: 02:08:17.00
Inhalt: Whether you''re a professional accountant or a manager at a small-sized firm, navigating business taxes can be intimidating. Business taxes are an ongoing process for most businesses, with multiple due dates throughout the year. This course was designed to unlock the mystery around these forms and deadlines. Join professor Michael McDonald as he dives into the foundations of business taxes, detailing what needs to be submitted to the IRS, when it needs to be submitted, and the essentials of completing these tax forms. Upon completing this course, you''ll have a deeper understanding of the government''s rules and requirements, as well as how to save time and funds when filing business taxes. Umfang: 01:48:08.00
Inhalt: Curious about how to leverage the remarkable versatility of Excel as a marketing professional? This course shows you how. Join instructor Michael McDonald as he demonstrates how to use Excel in your marketing analytics workflow, explaining how to determine everything from what price a product can be sold for to what type of advertising is catching the attention of users. Michael demonstrates how to tackle demand forecasting with Excel, including how to interpret regressions for forecasting. He covers different methods of doing product pricing, how to approach A/B testing with Excel, and how to transform the results of a survey into quantitative regression data. Plus, learn how to calculate the lifetime value of customers, churn rates, and customer acquisition costs for your business. Umfang: 02:10:44.00
Inhalt: Businesses all have their own way of recording financial information. The challenge is getting all the data into your analysis software in a clean and consistent format. This course helps you import and export sales transactions, financial statements, customer lists, and other important business data with Microsoft Excel and QuickBooks. Learn how to move data in and out of QuickBooks and Excel and generate common types of financial statements such as income and cash flow statements and balance sheets from QuickBooks. Instructor Michael McDonald also demonstrates how to format and upload text data in QuickBooks. Umfang: 00:28:33.00
Inhalt: Many stock market trades are now conducted with algorithms: computer programs that buy or sell stocks according to mathematical formulas. These trades are conducted at a speed and frequency that is hard for humans to replicate. Therefore, it's important for finance professionals, and indeed everyone who invests in the stock market, to know how these algorithms work. This course shows how to develop a back-tested, rules-based trading strategy and program a simple trading algorithm of your own. Professor Michael McDonald provides a brief primer on securities markets. He explains how data helps investors forecast performance and automate trading. Then he moves into the practical steps: coming up with algorithmic trading rules and developing and testing an algorithm. Finally, he shows how the algorithm can be applied and eventually expanded to other securities. Anyone working in financial services, or interested in investing in the stock market, will be able to use these tutorials to understand and develop simple trading algorithms of their own. Umfang: 01:29:35.00
Inhalt: Management accountants help executives make smarter, more informed business decisions. By providing advice and frequent, detailed internal updates, they help clarify their firm''s current financial standing-and suggest how to boost profits going forward. In this hands-on course, professor Michael McDonald demonstrates how to use Microsoft Excel for the tasks performed most frequently by professionals working in a management or corporate accounting vertical. He covers topics such as performing variance analysis, doing activity-based costing (ABC), and using ratio analysis. Throughout the course, Michael includes exercises-together with downloadable exercise files-that you can complete to gain a practical understanding of these key concepts. Umfang: 01:34:50.00
Inhalt: Across the world of banking and finance, Excel is simply indispensable. This critical tool serves as a blank canvas for building business and financial models of all types. In this course, instructor Michael McDonald shows banking professionals how to use Excel to model key questions in the fields of insurance, commercial banking, and investment banking. In the area of commercial banking, Michael covers everything from front-office loan amortization to loan portfolio modeling. For insurance, he examines how to use Excel for issues like loss modeling and pricing analysis. Plus, he shows investment banking professionals how to build models covering merger and acquisition deals, IPO pricing, and corporate actions. Tune in to learn Excel skills that you can apply to the real-world issues you face at work. Umfang: 01:47:04
Inhalt: Capital markets are a crucial area of finance-and investors aren't the only ones impacted. Retirement, buying a house, and long-term savings are all affected by the rise and fall of the investment markets. While everyone's circumstances are different, understanding how the stock market and investments like bonds work can make you more successful. In this course, Dr. Michael McDonald explores the world of capital markets, including stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds, currencies, and commodities. Learn about stock valuation, bond valuation, options, bond yields, calculation of bond ratings, and how earnings reports and other market events impact stock investors. Dr. McDonald also demonstrates how to buy and sell financial products, and assess the risk that goes along with each one. Umfang: 02:37:05.00
Inhalt: When it comes to money, even the most rational people can be swayed by bias and emotion. Behavioral finance uses psychology to explain why investors make bad financial decisions. In this course, professor Michael McDonald explores the basics of behavioral finance and how it impacts market performance as well as individual decision-marking and personal investment strategy. Learn how personal history, appetite for risk, and difficulty with probability estimation impact investing and the different financial vehicles available to mitigate risk. Discover how biases such as anchoring and framing affect investors, and how sentiment and anomalies impact the stock market. Finally, learn practical investment strategies to remove bias and make sure you are making sound trading decisions. Umfang: 02:00:46.00
Inhalt: Creating accurate and reliable sales forecasts is essential for any sales leader. Professor Michael McDonald shows how to use Excel to forecast sales more effectively, beginning with a quick primer on sales forecasting, then explaining the business intelligence used in forecasting and the basics of regression analysis. Next, Michael shows how to use Excel to gather the necessary data for your forecast, how to cleanse data so that it will lead to more accurate forecasts, and how to interpret and explain the results of a regression forecast. The course concludes with a sample project, forecasting sales for a fictional restaurant. In this sample project, you'll construct a data set, compute a simple set of forecast metrics, and construct an in-depth sales forecast. Finally, Michael explains the limitations of sales forecasting and how you can mitigate risk. Umfang: 01:22:56
Inhalt: Become a better accountant, bookkeeper, or financial analyst with Microsoft Excel. Excel can be used for profit-and-loss (P&L) reporting, forecasting sales, business valuation, quickly analyzing data from programs like QuickBooks, and more. This course shows you how to perform key accounting tasks in Excel, including small business and corporate record-keeping, and importing and exporting data from QuickBooks to Excel. Professor Michael McDonald shows how to record transactions in a general ledger, categorize expenses for taxes, track business performance, use key financial statements, and do a business valuation. The course is for working professionals and business students alike, with short, focused lessons to give you maximum learning in the minimum amount of time. Umfang: 01:31:51.00
Inhalt: Medical animations indulge our curiosity about the human body by allowing us to peer within at key biological processes and anatomy. They are valuable communication tools for teaching healthcare professionals, trainees, and the general public about the wonders of the human body. In this course, learn about the basic principles and techniques of 3D medical animation using Autodesk Maya 2018. Discover where to find good resources and references, how to use the Protein Data Bank to download 3D models for molecular animation, and how to approach storyboarding. Learn how to create some basic medical animations, including cell division and blood cell flow. Plus, explore common visual aesthetics in medical animations and see how to use lighting and material shading to make your animations stand out. Umfang: 01:31:21.00
Inhalt: Minority Report changed production designer Alex McDowell's career. The film didn't begin with a script. Instead, director Steven Spielberg wanted a world that would jump-start the narrative. So with the help of a transmedia "think tank," Alex created a detailed digital environment complete with its own society, politics, technology, terrain, and infrastructure. Alex spent the next decade world building, working on films such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Watchmen. Now he runs 5D GlobalStudio and the World Building Media Lab at the University of Southern California, where students learn how to solve storytelling problems through design. In this interview, Alex tells us about his current projects (including models for sustainable living and a virtual exploration of the world's oceans), the future of media and narrative, and where he looks for inspiration. Umfang: 00:57:17.00
Inhalt: El cambio no nos suele agradar, pero es necesario para que una empresa prospere y sobreviva. Gracias a él, como jefe o gerente, podrás implementar nuevos procesos e iniciativas. En este curso, el consultor y experto en gestión del cambio Bob McGannon te explica las técnicas y los principios necesarios para favorecer los cambios a nivel de proyecto, en un área concreta o en toda la organización. Además, te ayuda a preparar y gestionar los procesos para aplicarlos. Veremos las cinco etapas y las ocho competencias necesarias para el éxito. Bob también te ayuda a conocer las fases del cambio a nivel individual, para que puedas facilitar la adaptación de los miembros de tu equipo y las partes involucradas. Umfang: 01:40:42.00
Inhalt: New consultants are often surprised by how agile they need to be to fulfill client expectations. The role you play may vary from contract to contract, or even shift within the same engagement. This course helps prepare you for the many different roles a consultant must play and succeed in the challenging world of consulting. Bob McGannon explains how your role differs from your job and how you can assess the needs of your client right at the start of the engagement. He then reviews the seven major roles-technical expert, manager, team leader, follower, reviewer, critic, and implementer-explaining when each role is most useful to your client. Live-action scenarios help you see the roles in action and apply what you have learned. In the final chapter, Bob discusses how to close the engagement, emphasizing the value your role has provided in order to position yourself for the next one. Umfang: 01:11:23.00
Inhalt: On n'arrive à rien sans peine. Certes, mais les risques non gérés vous freinent, voire vous empêchent d'atteindre vos objectifs de projet. Dans cette formation, Bob McGannon, auteur et chef de projet, vous apprend à anticiper, à évaluer et à gérer les risques liés à vos projets, petits ou grands. Découvrez comment jauger la tolérance au risque de vos parties prenantes, élaborer un plan et un registre des risques ou encore assurer la continuité d'un projet. Umfang: 01:11:46.00
Inhalt: Outsourcing presents challenges that aren't part of a traditional working environment. Instructor Bob McGannon gives you guidance and information on how to work effectively in this growing industry. Bob explains the advantages and disadvantages of different outsourcing models and the different business drivers that lead companies to consider outsourcing. He discusses common elements of the outsourcing contract, then covers service levels and service requests. Accurate performance reporting is essential for any outsourcing arrangement, and Bob steps through how to ensure relevant, accurate information is provided for business operations. Since most contracts need updating over time, he identifies the steps required to successfully apply changes to an outsourcing contract. Bob concludes by offering other resources that you can use to further your knowledge about outsourcing arrangements. Note: This course was created by Bob McGannon. We are pleased to host this training in our library. Umfang: 00:34:20
Inhalt: En este curso, el formador y PMP certificado Bob McGannon te enseña a conocer a tus empleados y a desarrollar un gran equipo a partir de tu banco de talentos, definir sus tareas y optimizar su éxito. Aprende en el proceso a negociar los recursos clave, apreciar y potenciar los estilos de trabajo de cada empleado, aplicar la inteligencia emocional para añadir un enfoque personal a tu estilo de gestión y resolver conflictos. Umfang: 01:28:39.00
Inhalt: Healthcare projects have their own unique set of needs and challenges, including privacy concerns and regulatory constraints. Learn how to effectively manage these challenges on healthcare projects large and small in this course with project management expert Bob McGannon. Bob goes over specific approaches to setting project goals, scheduling tasks, managing stakeholders, and mitigating the risks and challenges that are common to the medical field. Then he proposes some specific challenges to bring the concepts to life and offers solutions so you can compare your approach with his recommendations. Umfang: 01:04:50.00
Inhalt: To succeed in outsourcing environments, you must understand the common issues that plague outsourcing engagements and how to address them. Instructor Bob McGannon discusses the early warning signs of common issues, along with response alternatives. Issues can arise when the outsourcing contract becomes out of step with changing business needs. Bob points out common concerns with contract terms and how they can misalign with client business needs, service delivery issues, and managing personnel changes. He outlines productive ways to pursue the root cause of delivery problems and the difference between issues and disputes. The course concludes with an exercise on predicting outsourcing issues, based on a case study. Note: This course was created by Bob McGannon. We are pleased to host this training in our library. Umfang: 00:37:47
Inhalt: As a leader, it''s your job to ensure your team is complying with existing rules and processes. But there will be times when diverging from the status quo is what''s best for your company. The ability to do this-to confidently and respectfully disobey-is a core skill for today''s leaders. In this course, uncover the principles of intelligent disobedience, and discover how to employ it to your advantage throughout your organization. Join Bob McGannon as he provides you with a rulebook for breaking the rules. Bob shares why every company needs intelligent disobedience, what to do when managers don''t want to hear about issues in their business, how to overcome your own hierarchy, and much more. Umfang: 00:34:08.00
Inhalt: Technical projects have their own unique set of needs and challenges. New technology must be researched, downtime must be kept to a minimum, and the organization must be helped to adapt to the change. Learn how to effectively manage technical projects of any size with these tips from project management expert Bob McGannon. He'll go over specific approaches to mitigate the risks and challenges common to technology projects. He'll walk through case studies to bring the concepts to life. Then he'll propose some specific challenges (including conflicts with stakeholders or vendors) for you to explore. Compare your solutions with Bob's recommendations to see how your project management skills compare. Umfang: 01:19:31.00
Inhalt: Change is hard, but necessary for businesses to thrive and survive. You-as leader or manager-can help implement new business processes and initiatives using organizational change management (OCM). In this course, consultant and change management expert Bob McGannon discusses the principles and techniques necessary to drive change at the project level, in a certain business area, or throughout an entire organization. He helps you prepare, manage, and support the change process, outlining the five phases involved and the eight competencies required for success. Bob also helps you understand the stages of change on an individual level, so you can help team members and stakeholders adapt. Umfang: 01:40:02.00
Inhalt: Today''s headlines are rife with stories of corporate corruption. These incidents are often pinned on the decision-makers at the top-and rightly so, in most cases. Modern corporate leaders are charged with both promoting ethical behavior and grappling with the ethical quagmires that crop up during their tenure. In this course, Bob McGannon delves into the subject of business ethics, explaining why it''s critical to the success of your business-particularly in the era of social media-and how to refine your own ethical framework. Bob describes some of the behaviors and expectations you can put in place at your company today to promote ethical behavior from top to bottom. He also showcases ethics in action, including how to deal with situations where the right answer isn''t readily apparent. Umfang: 01:06:29.00
Inhalt: Outsourcing can be a strategic, cost-saving approach to obtaining services which support your business. But working in that environment presents challenges and differences from a traditional work setting. In this course, instructor Bob McGannon helps you learn to work more effectively in this dynamic environment, whether from a client perspective or an outsourcer perspective. Bob goes over the benefits of outsourcing, as well as the role of the outsourcing contract, the expectations of managers in an outsourcing environment, and the nuances of working for multiple bosses. He goes over the details of working in a time-tracked environment, then offers his thoughts on how personnel should be managed and how special service requests are managed in an outsourcing environment. Bob concludes with an exercise to evaluate missing elements in an outsourcing environment. Note: This course was created by Bob McGannon. We are pleased to host this training in our library. Umfang: 00:43:46
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