Cursos de finanzas

In this intermediate-level specialization, you will transform data into compelling visuals and strategic recommendations. You'll create interactive variance visualizations in Power BI and craft executive reports using AI-assisted tools. You'll learn to present financial insights through visually compelling dashboards and polished professional reports that drive executive decision-making. This course is for financial…

Boards increasingly demand proof that AI is working, yet few organizations can measure it well. This IBM course teaches you to define, measure, and communicate the business value of AI. Decide which initiatives deserve to scale. Apply financial and operational ROI models built for AI. Distinguish hard ROI, soft ROI, and strategic option value, including the emerging idea of "return on autonomy." Design a measurement…

Optimizing Your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Costs es el segundo curso de una serie de dos partes sobre los conceptos básicos de la administración de costos y facturación de GCP. Este curso está destinado principalmente a personas que se desempeñan en funciones relacionadas con finanzas o TI, y que están a cargo de optimizar la infraestructura de nube de sus organizaciones. Aprenderá distintas maneras de controlar y…

Pelatihan ini membahas berbagai macam konsep, alat, dan praktik terbaik dari keamanan IT. Di sini akan diperkenalkan ancaman dan serangan dan berbagai cara kemunculan mereka. Kami akan memberi Anda beberapa latar belakang algoritma enkripsi dan bagaimana mereka digunakan untuk melindungi data. Kemudian, kami akan membahas lebih jauh tentang “tiga A”dari keamanan informasi: authentication, authorization, accounting.…

This course equips you to make informed decisions about generative AI investments. You'll learn to appraise AI use cases by balancing their potential for "Hard ROI" against organizational readiness and technical debt. The curriculum covers how to conduct rigorous vendor and tool evaluations within the Microsoft ecosystem, moving beyond surface-level feature checklists to assess architectural fit and long-term total…

Convert prioritized opportunities and an honest readiness picture into a phased, fundable plan. You learn to construct a transformation roadmap with milestones and dependencies, sequence an AI investment portfolio across near-, mid-, and longer-term horizons, decide what to centralize and what to federate as the plan scales, recognize where AI-enabled workflows and agents add value, and pressure-test a roadmap for…

Understanding Your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Costs es más apropiado para quienes desempeñan cargos relacionados con la tecnología o las finanzas, y son responsables de administrar los costos de GCP. Aprenderá a configurar una cuenta de facturación, organizar recursos y administrar permisos de acceso a la facturación. En los labs prácticos, aprenderá a ver su factura, hacer un seguimiento de sus costos de GCP con…

In this intermediate-level specialization, you will develop foundational financial analysis techniques using Excel, Power BI, and AI tools. You'll learn to evaluate budget variances, analyze financial ratios, decode financial statements, and calculate margins while leveraging AI tools to accelerate your workflow. Through hands-on exercises with real financial data, you'll build the analytical foundation needed for…

Optimizing Your Google Cloud Costs is the second course in a two-part series on Google Cloud billing and cost management essentials. This course is most suitable for those in a Finance and/or IT related role responsible for optimizing their organization’s cloud infrastructure. You'll learn several ways to control and optimize your Google Cloud costs, including setting up budgets and alerts, managing quota limits,…

By the end of this course, you will structure financial models in Excel with clean, auditable architecture, calculate and decompose budget-to-actual variances into price, volume, and mix, build variance bridges that turn numbers into a performance story, and produce rolling forecasts you can validate with error metrics like MAE and MAPE. These are the operational skills that anchor an FP&A analyst's credibility —…

By the end of this course, you will write structured AI prompts that clean and standardize messy financial data, use AI to draft and extend model logic, apply AI to anomaly detection and reconciliation, and build the governance habits — guardrails, output logging, and audit evidence — that make AI-assisted finance defensible. This is where AI stops being a buzzword and becomes practical leverage. You will reclaim…

The demand for project managers in on the rise across different industries, including construction, healthcare, Information Technology, and finance. According to the Project Management Institute's (PMI) most recent Talent Gap report, 2.3 million people will be needed each year to fill all of the project management-oriented positions expected to open in the near future. If you are exploring how to go about the job…

Your organization has probably already run AI pilots. The hard part comes next: deciding which one deserves real money, rebuilding the work around it, and keeping it safe once it touches live systems and real customers. Over four modules you will make those calls on workflows you recognize — procurement, onboarding, contract review, finance close, compliance review — and leave with an Enterprise AI Implementation…

Build practical Microsoft Excel skills for managing, analyzing, and validating spreadsheet data. In this course, you will learn to use essential functions—including SUM, AVERAGE, IF, VLOOKUP, and TEXT—to perform common calculations and lookups in real-world accounting and financial scenarios. You will also learn how to use data validation, conditional formatting, and professional spreadsheet templates to reduce…

Poor financial decisions cost businesses billions because leaders lack tools to properly evaluate options. Professionals who master financial analysis become trusted advisors. This course provides the financial toolkit essential for business success. Learn to dissect financial statements like forensic accountants, spotting hidden problems and opportunities. Master Excel-based modeling to build dynamic forecasts…

This course equips learners with essential skills in data analysis and financial management to support effective decision-making in account management. Learners will explore techniques for managing financial data, analyzing key performance indicators, and using customer data to enhance account strategies. The course emphasizes technology-driven approaches — including Power BI, Excel, and Microsoft Copilot — to…

By the end of this course, you'll be able to design, document, and defend a credible, business-aligned budget — one that earns sign-off from leadership and genuine buy-in from the departments that have to deliver it. Most analysts inherit a budget process they've never redesigned. This course changes that. You'll map the end-to-end budget cycle stage by stage, diagnose where and why it stalls, and learn the…

Designed for current and aspiring nonprofit leaders, this course helps learners build the confidence needed to make stronger financial decisions in mission-driven organizations.

Explore how people, businesses, and governments make decisions using core economic concepts, evidence, and tools for understanding markets and society.

Build a foundation in the fundamentals of private equity investing with an introduction to one of modern finance’s most sought-after skill sets.

Apply economic concepts to personal finance and investing to evaluate risk, understand markets, and make smarter long-term financial decisions.

We make thousands of decisions every day. Do I cross the road now, or wait for the oncoming truck to pass? Should I eat fries or a salad for lunch? How much should I tip the cab driver? We usually make these decisions with almost no thought, using what psychologists call “heuristics” – rules of thumb that enable us to navigate our lives. Without these mental shortcuts, we would be paralyzed by the multitude of daily…

In this course, you will delve into the income statement’s structure to uncover insights on revenue, expenses, and profitability, and how they reflect a company’s operational efficiency. Additionally, you will examine a balance sheet to understand a company’s financial stability, liquidity, and capital structure at a specific point in time. You will apply these concepts by conducting financial statement analyses and…

This Business Analytics course in Excel is the second of a three part series, with the intended audience business professionals, MBA students, advanced undergraduates, and analysts who already understand basic analytics and want to upskill with techniques used in operations, finance, logistics, and strategy.. Upon completing this course, learners will be able to build and solve advanced optimization models in Excel,…

This final course will cover more advanced aspects of bonds and stocks that will help you make smart personal decisions and develop a keen understanding of how governments and companies borrow from us. You will better understand stocks and bonds valuation and take a deeper dive using real-world problems. For stocks, you will review what you have already learned and understand valuation. You will learn about growth,…

This course will teach you how to manage a startup’s financing strategy, where you will learn how to build capitalization tables (or “cap tables”) in Excel. Cap tables will help you explore different financing strategies for your startup company and determine which financing decisions are best for your entrepreneurial venture. You will also learn about innovations in the digital space that allow new ways to finance…

From entrepreneurs to executives, this Specialization provides an opportunity for you to learn how to advance business innovation in your company and gain insights from leading faculty in the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. In the first course, you will learn how to valuate entrepreneurial ventures—including high-growth startups—using Excel spreadsheet models. You will also learn how to discern between…

Gold and Bitcoin demystifies two monetary assets with data. You’ll learn how bitcoin works—blockchains, hashing, mining, keys, and transactions—and why decentralization matters. Then we compare gold and bitcoin where they are similar—scarcity, low inflation, high production cost, and absent cash flows—and where they diverge: custody, divisibility, auditability, settlement, censorship resistance, volatility, market…

This course belongs to a five-part introductory program in Business Information Systems, created to open the door to the fascinating realm of Information Technology. The program is aimed at professionals from non-technical fields—such as finance, administration, or management—who wish to gain essential IT knowledge that enhances collaboration with computer and telecommunications specialists. Through this training,…

Stablecoins have emerged as the first "killer app" of the crypto space, with annual on-chain transaction volume now exceeding $30 trillion — surpassing Visa and Mastercard combined. Yet most people, including many finance professionals, do not understand how they work, what distinguishes one type from another, or what risks they carry. This course, taught by Duke University Professor Campbell R. Harvey, provides a…

Through this course, you will start by addressing the two “big questions” of accounting: “What do I have?” and “How did I do over time?” You will see how the two key financial statements – the balance sheet and the income statement - are designed to answer these questions and then move on to consider how individual transactions aggregate to make up these financial statements. After developing a broad understanding…

This specialization is intended to familiarize learners with a broad range of financial technologies. While finance has always been at the forefront of technological innovation, the financial industry is changing rapidly in the face of new technology. In the past, at the forefront of innovation in finance were central governments and financial institutions. Today, information technology firms and professionals are…

Expand your financial knowledge to ask better questions, spot problems, make better decisions, and increase your influence in the organization. Duke Corporate Education has partnered with Professor Joe Perfetti, who has a wealth of real-world knowledge and industry expertise, to create an online finance program for non-financial managers. This Specialization is ideal for non-financial managers or professionals who…

DeFi and the Future of Finance is a set of four courses that focus on decentralized finance. The final course is called DeFi Opportunities and Risks. It is essential that you complete the first three courses: I. DeFi Infrastructure; II. DeFi Primitives; and III. DeFi Deep Dive before beginning the fourth course. The course starts with the premise that an analysis of any new technology must clearly gauge the risks…

How do you close a successful financing deal with impact investors? This course guides you through a step-by-step approach to effectively engage, pitch, and negotiate with impact investors. You’ll learn how to craft a cohesive investment narrative and align your emails, executive summary, and pitch deck around a clear investment story that balances financial return with social or environmental impact. You'll gain…

In this course, we will apply the central concept and applications of Time Value of Money (TVM) to explore the structure and pricing of stocks and bonds at an introductory level. In this course, you will learn about bonds, different types of bonds (Zero Coupon bonds, Government bonds). You will learn about bond pricing calculations and see their direct connection to market data on bonds. You will also learn about…