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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Introduction to Financial Analysis - The "Why?" by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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About the Course

In this course, you will learn the foundations important to developing and implementing a financially analytic mindset. This course introduces the foundations of financial analysis, beginning with the first question: what is financial analysis? You will learn about the importance of adopting and applying a financial perspective. You will learn about accounting and finance principles and fundamentals. Accounting principles allow for the creation of consistent and reliable financial information. Key fundamentals of finance facilitate the use of a financially analytic mindset in different settings, including corporate and organizational, investment opportunities, and entrepreneurial settings. Ultimately, from this course, you will take away a strong foundational understanding of financial analysis, on which you can build further knowledge and skills related to financial analysis of organizations and organizational decisions and scenarios....

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MQ

Aug 17, 2023

Interesting and informative. Great entry level education to learn about financial analysis or brush up on your skills that have been sitting on the bench for many years.

SN

Nov 13, 2022

For me this course provides an initial overview of Financial Analysis which is very useful for understanding, mastering and becoming a Financial Analyst

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By Vi T

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Jan 5, 2025

I have not attended an abysmal course on Coursera such as this one. So many things are wrong with the way the course is organized. Each session of the module does not seem to be connected to the previous one. The videos are unprofessionally put together. There were only 2 videos where they interviewed some business owners that put the knowledge to real life application. Other videos talk about complex concepts in a very complicated way. It was hard to follow. After completing it, the knowledge I gained was merely a video form of a glossary. This course is the first of the three-course "Financial Analysis - Skills for Success" Specialization. Upon completing, I reviewed the content of the 2nd course and found a lot of repeated content. This course seems like a waste of time and money.

By Ken N

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Jun 24, 2023

Terrible presentations. It's so obvious that the instructors were reading off a script and the script is as dry as a textbook.

By Remon A

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May 15, 2024

there are some videos missing