Apply finance concepts for smart project management

Learn to read financial statements and make meaningful interpretations for business decisions in the age of big data.

Created by: Shilpa Khire
Financial Analyst

What Will I Learn?

• Understand the basics of financial statements that are useful for a project manager.
• Understand the important financial concepts useful in business.
• Use these financial analysis techniques in an innovative manner in the age of big data.
• Learn various project evaluation techniques such as Net Present Value (NPV), Return on Investment (ROI), Pay Back Period and how to apply them for making the right business decisions.
• Learn how to keep a track of your project by proper forecasting, budgeting and variance analysis.

Requirements

• There are no pre requisites to attending this course. Anyone who wants to understand about financial statements can take this course. But more specifically, this course is extremely useful to the following categories of people :
• 1. Business managers, project managers who want to take the help of financial statements for important business decisions.
• 2. Enterpreneurs who want to pitch their idea to to investors, venture funds can use financial statements to justify their proposition.

Target audience

• This course is mainly intended for project managers, business managers and any other non technical executives who would like to learn the use of financial statements for making smart business decisions.
• Anyone who would like to use financial data analysis techniques in the age of big data for evaluating the quantitative impact on various projects.