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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Finance for Non-Financial Professionals by University of California, Irvine

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About the Course

Impact your financial decisions and learn how to affect the performance of your unit's profitability and of your organization. In this course gain a basic understanding of finance and accounting concepts to drive your organization's growth. Upon completion of this course, you will have gained general financial knowledge and an in-depth understanding of the impact of your decisions outside your functional area. Content of the course includes selected aspects of finance from a non-financial specialist perspective. Specific topics include: financial analysis; planning, forecasting, and budgeting; cash flow, and strategic financing. This class will be interactive and will require the active involvement of the participants in finance related activities. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Explain the importance of finance and interpretation of financial information 2. Apply the concepts of accounting and finance to analyze financials 3. Learn about key accounting and finance terms 4. Examine financial statements by using key ratios 5. Explain the importance of budgeting process 6. Learn about key components needed to improve profitability...

Top reviews

AC

Dec 14, 2017

I've enjoyed this course. Prof. Standen gives a very basic but clear overview of the most common financial topics, wished I had this course a couple of years ago it would have made my life way easier.

EM

Feb 21, 2019

An excellent well-rounded course and perfect for anyone who would like to gain some insight into financial practices. I would highly recommend this course, "Finance for Non-Financial Professionals."

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By Deleted A

May 29, 2016

Brief overview of the topic but well presented. Thanks to the teacher, the university and Coursera.

By Erik T

Aug 19, 2015

It was a good intro course. However, I wish there were a few more videos to go a bit more in-depth.

By 藍元宗 ( L

Sep 22, 2015

This course gives a good introduction for financial knowledge. However, the quizes are too simple.

By Claudio P

Mar 3, 2016

Excellent course, definitely worth taking if you have free time and are willing to expand your kn

By Bassam D

Dec 6, 2015

Good course, good introduction about finance, but some terms and topics require more explanation.

By Maria G

Nov 14, 2015

Simply and clearly explained, good examples. Just what you need for a short review of the topic.

By Suhendi P

Aug 30, 2018

As a non-finance background, I could easily follow the lecture and gain a better understanding.

By Daniel F O

Oct 11, 2017

Good course, comprehensive at this level. I suggest to try to add more exercises (not optional)

By arun B

Oct 15, 2024

Course covers very Basics of Finance & Accounting in simple words. Very brief on the topics.

By Hessam K

Jan 10, 2016

It was a great Course. I found it very concise, to the point and well presented.

Hessam K.

By Alexandre C

Oct 4, 2015

A very good course that introduced a lot a financial concepts. Not too deeply but widely.

By Nicolas A

Apr 27, 2016

It was a good course but there were things missing, such as exercises and more examples.

By Genise W

Oct 27, 2015

Great class....l.loved it !!! Great class to learn about business, finance and money !!

By MA

Apr 17, 2020

It gave a basic understanding of the Finance terms and their importance in a business

By Carlos G

Sep 7, 2015

Excelent professor!

Just include some more examples or quiz problems.

Thank you UCI

By Ahmed S M I I

Dec 16, 2020

Amazing course that gave a great view of the financial statements and accounting.

By Nancy C

Aug 13, 2018

simple, easy to udnerderstand those financial terms and methods. very good cl

By xiao x

Sep 23, 2015

Overall, it is good :)

Hope there is a way to download all the study material.

By siddharth n

Sep 27, 2015

lack of examples to workout. good short videos. good option for introduction

By Shipra S

Sep 30, 2020

Thank you so much for upgrade my career with the knowledge of this course

By Wong H L A

Feb 12, 2016

A bit too hard especially in the last two weeks.

Overall worth enrolling.

By Edisson C

Oct 7, 2015

Enseña las bases de finanzas, los ejemplos utilizados son muy practicos.

By Raghvendra M

Aug 14, 2015

Brillaint short introduction to finance for non-finance professionals

By Luca F

Aug 1, 2021

Really interesting, a nice overview on finance and company valuation

By samay j

Feb 2, 2021

The course was basic but well designed and good at beginners level.