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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Finance for Non-Financial Managers by Emory University

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About the Course

Finance is for “Non-financial Managers” who want to understand key financial principles and apply them in a real-world context. Over the course of the program window, you will work your way through a series of nine modules that move from understanding basic financial principles to applying financial analysis and ratios to drive decisions. In addition, each module is capped with an ending self-evaluation to ensure that you have absorbed the following key learning objectives: + Understand the language associated with finance + Know how and when to use financial terms and analysis techniques + Read and assess company performance using financial statements + Recognize the link between organizational strategy and financial objectives + Use "the numbers" to your best advantage to make more informed decisions...

Top reviews

SA

Nov 24, 2023

one of the best experience of financial for non financial managers this course is help full for me on my future guide line for me thank you coursera for refer the best plat form of finance .

TV

May 6, 2022

I'm terrible at math but this course explained the concepts to the point where I was able to get through the materials successfully. Practice will lead to technical proficiency.

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By SANDEEP T

Sep 13, 2022

Overall Course is good. Quality of video, when the spreadsheets were shown were really bad. The data was not visible at all. In addition the study material & explanation in entire week 6 was not to the mark. In fact i had to understand the content (CAP M, WACC) from other sources to clear the graded examinations.

By Kimberly H

Feb 28, 2021

I felt that some of the videos were provided after the quizzes were taken. Some of the forms used were way more advanced than the ones used to demonstrate. This program is not for those that have no background in business though my instructor chose to use it as such.

By Ali A

May 10, 2022

It's good as content and explanation, but poor visual presentation, for example, many times showing a long sheet without highlighting where instructor is looking at.

By JEROME S

Jul 18, 2022

It would be good to have quizz correction in Video to understand our errors

And have the quizz more regularly, not at the end of each modules

By Eriana R

Apr 5, 2022

Content was very good but the video editin of Weeks 6-8 left a lot to be desired and made learning the content a lot more challenging.

By Poornima R

May 12, 2023

we need explanation for answers for quizzes. some of the calculations seem incorrect

By LeAndrea J

Mar 24, 2021

Videos are informative.

By Michael F

Mar 21, 2021

For a course for non-financial people it becomes quite complicated towards the last 3 weeks. The first 3 weeks are great and I found it very useful. After that the lecturer goes quite quickly through certain models and calculations, with the main issue being he interchanges multiple terms continuously without properly explaining what each term is. I found myself constantly stopping the video, rewinding, scrolling down to the transcript to try and understand the flow of the lecture, which at times appeared all over the place.

Many of the calculations in the quizzes are not accurate. I found no matter how many times I did the calculations that I was often a few decimal places off what the answers were and often picked the answer closest to my calculation. Often this resulted in the correct answer, but to provide us with numbers without decimal places and then to give the answers with decimals (clearly using decimal places to work the answers out), meant that the answers we calculate were often quite distant from the correct one.

By Kristof V d B

Jan 5, 2024

Interesting subject, and especially the ratios are handy. However, the quality of supporting material of the course is very poor. First of all, it is an old course (2010 figures). Secondly, quality of the video (even at the highest display quality) is low: you can not read the figures the professor is showing on the screen. Next, the professor is regularly referring (espacially in week 6, 7 and 8) to exercises he is doing on his Excel, but the screen is not shared and we only see him self, not the screen share. On a last note, also the content - especially weeks 7 and 8 - is not explained very well in my opinion (but probably because the poor visual assistance of screen sharing). I have followed other Coursera courses where this was not an issue at all, so believe it is really only limited to this course.

By Caitlin G

Jul 29, 2023

The professor is a very engaging speaker, however the course is not optimized for online learning. Materials are often referenced to but you either are never given access to them, or are given to you after the fact. Likewise as the course goes on he will do equations without sharing them on the screen, making it hard to follow along and fully understand how to use information found in financial statements to equation at hand. I hope they update this course at some point because as I mentioned he is a very engaging lecturer, I think the course is hampered by it being created in the earlier days of self-directed online learning.

By Mohammed A M

Jun 28, 2021

financial Sheets are not clear in the lectures videos

By Moamen

Jun 18, 2024

Need to be more simplified