Inhalt: Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we interact with our mobile devices, our healthcare providers, and even our cars. In this project-based course, Dr. Michael McDonald focuses specifically on the applications of AI in business, as well as emerging opportunities in the space. After discussing the basics of AI and how it works, Dr. McDonald focuses on how this exciting technology can be leveraged in a variety of business settings. Discover how AI can be applied to accurately price products, make astute marketing decisions, navigate financial markets, and more. Plus, learn where AI doesn''t work in the business world and get best practices for applying AI in your work. Umfang: 01:25:57.00
Inhalt: Roboadvisors, cryptocurrencies, and other technological innovations have been disrupting the finance world for years, challenging old ways of working with innovative new processes. There's even a word for the intersection of finance and technology: fintech. Curious about how fintech and the advancements it encompasses-namely, artificial intelligence (AI)-can affect your day-to-day work? If so, then this course is for you. Join Dr. Michael McDonald as he explores how fintech is changing the finance landscape, as well as how you can use AI in your banking or investment work. Discover how roboadvising works; explore borrowing and lending with online peer-to-peer (P2P) markets; learn how to evaluate the value of cryptocurrencies by building basic financial models with Excel; and more. Umfang: 01:33:25.00
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: 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: 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: 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: Discover how to make smarter product pricing decisions that maximize your organization's profits. In this course, instructor Michael McDonald goes over using scenario analysis, price optimization, and variance analysis to model the data analytics behind pricing . Michael explains how to determine bundle pricing in a scenario, estimate price elasticity, compute price optimization profits with one variable or many variables, balance price and sales volume considerations, and more. If you'd like to pursue a career in corporate finance-particularly as a pricing analyst in an insurance, retail, manufacturing, or technology firm-then this course can help equip you with the skills you need to help your company succeed in today's economy. Umfang: 01:26:23.00
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: 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: Business analytics is one of today's fastest growing careers, but it''s also an area where companies face a shortage of talent. In this course, Professor Michael McDonald walks you through everything you need to know to start implementing business analytics skills and concepts. Michael begins with the basics, explaining what you should know about business analytics, including definitions and uses. He demonstrates how to get started in business analytics, including accessing and integrating the correct data and constructing a data map. Michael shows how to use predictive tools in business analytics that can equip firms to make better decisions. Finally, Michael covers how business analytics can provide significant guidance for management in developing a strategy and understanding the market. Umfang: 01:59:24
Inhalt: Discover how to use Microsoft Excel for the bread-and-butter tasks required by corporate finance and financial planning and analysis (FP&A) professionals. In this hands-on course, professor Michael McDonald steps through how to leverage this powerful tool to pick corporate investments, determine your firm's cost of capital, and perform operational budgeting. Michael steps through how to estimate weighted average cost of capital (WACC), build a budget, perform stress testing and scenario analysis, and more. Throughout the course, Michael includes exercises-together with downloadable exercise files-that can provide you with a practical understanding of these key topics. Umfang: 02:25:50.00
Inhalt: Do you manage a portfolio of stocks or securities? Microsoft Excel offers professionals in the investment industry with a bevy of tools that they can use to make sound investments. In this course, learn how to leverage these tools and perform key investment-related activities in Excel, including investment evaluation and analysis on a stock or portfolio. Professor Michael McDonald provides an overview of the major tasks in the investment industry, and then digs into how to do single stock investment analysis. He also goes over how to compute expected returns on a stock and a portfolio, value a bond in Excel, compute performance evaluation metrics, and more. Umfang: 01:58:17.00
Inhalt: Excel is the most widely used data analysis software on the market, but many people in business are not using it to its full potential. Excel can be a great tool for building financial and operational models, allowing users to understand what may happen in the future and how the business can position itself. In this course, learn how to build effective and useful financial models in Excel to forecast sales and costs, profits, operational KPIs, business assets and liabilities, and much more. Instructor Michael McDonald covers rules and best practices for financial modeling and then shows how to set up single-sheet and multi-sheet financial models and add inputs and assumptions, external data, projections, and more. Plus, learn how to determine the accuracy and strength of your models and keep them up to date as the data evolves. By the end of this course, you will have the tools and tricks you need to become a master of Excel modeling for businesses ranging from restaurants and manufacturing firms to banks and software companies. Umfang: 01:56:48
Inhalt: Big data is transforming the world of business. Yet many people don''t understand what big data and business intelligence are, or how to apply the techniques to their day-to-day jobs. This course addresses that knowledge gap by showing how to use large volumes of economic data to gain key business insights and analyze market conditions. Professor Michael McDonald demonstrates how to harness the wealth of information available on the Internet to forecast statistics such as industry growth, GDP, and unemployment rates, as well as factors that directly affect your business, like property prices and future interest rate hikes. All you need is Microsoft Excel. Michael uses the built-in formulas, functions, and calculations to perform regression analysis, calculate confidence intervals, and stress test your results. He also covers time series exponential smoothing, fixed effects regression, and difference estimators. You''ll walk away from the course able to immediately begin creating forecasts for your own business needs. Umfang: 01:37:02.00
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: 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: 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: How do banks work? Are you saving enough for retirement? Considering the answers to these questions and understanding financial basics is critical to planning a strong financial future. This course breaks down the mystery around the financial industry and provides practical knowledge for everyone, so you can manage accounts in an informed way, whether you are working with a financial advisor or not. Topics covered include savings, investments, insurance, retirement, and more. Umfang: 01:17:25.00
Inhalt: Big data is transforming the world of business. Yet many people don''t understand what big data and business intelligence are, or how to apply the techniques to their day-to-day jobs. This course addresses that knowledge gap, giving businesspeople practical methods to create quick and relevant business forecasts using big data. Join Professor Michael McDonald and discover how to use predictive analytics to forecast key performance indicators of interest, such as quarterly sales, projected cash flow, or even optimized product pricing. All you need is Microsoft Excel. Michael uses the built-in formulas, functions, and calculations to perform regression analysis, calculate confidence intervals, and stress test your results. You''ll walk away from the course able to immediately begin creating forecasts for your own business needs. Umfang: 01:21:46.00
Inhalt: By distilling key information regarding cash flow levels and risks, financial modeling helps decision-makers make informed choices based on data analytics that move their firms forward. In this course, learn how to build financial models that can be used in corporate finance, investment banking, commercial banking, and portfolio management. Professor Michael McDonald covers financial statement models, investment banking models, M&A models, buyout models, and DCF models-all using Microsoft Excel. Throughout the course, Michael includes exercises-together with downloadable exercise files-that can provide you with a practical understanding of these key topics. Umfang: 03:00:28.00
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: 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
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