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Financial Analysis for Business Performance: Reporting and Stakeholder Management

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Course Features

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Duration

4 weeks

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Lifetime Access

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Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Intermediate

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Effort

4 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

This course on financial analysis and reporting goes beyond just crunching numbers. It emphasizes the importance of effectively communicating insights to stakeholders, allowing them to make informed decisions. The ability to tell stories using data is highly valued in the finance industry and other sectors. With the help of Excel and Tableau, this course teaches you how to create visualizations that cater to different audiences and can be utilized across your organization.

One key aspect covered in this course is meeting the diverse reporting needs of stakeholders. It provides strategies for creating repeatable reporting systems, which not only save time and money but also ensure consistency in weekly or monthly tasks. Additionally, participants learn how to create reports that showcase business performance and analyze various costs within a company.

Optimizing cost structures to achieve business goals is another important topic covered in this course. Excel, being a powerful tool, simplifies work processes, aids in analysis, and enables the creation of visually appealing data visualizations for presentations and reports.

Overall, this course equips participants with the necessary skills to effectively communicate financial insights and analysis to stakeholders. It empowers individuals to create compelling reports and presentations that stand out within their organizations.

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Skills You Will Gain

What You Will Learn

Explain and compare the reporting needs of varying stakeholders

Create repeatable reporting systems to support ongoing business decision making requirements, using Tableau and Excel to prepare common visualisations or data stories to support ongoing performance reporting

Identify and analyse the varying cost types of a business

Examine and recommend optimised cost structures to support a business' performance

Target Students

This course is designed to support learners who need to engage with large volumes of financial data

This includes entry-level finance or accounting professionals who would like to progress to higher-skill positions, and current finance professionals

It would also be useful for new managers and leaders, as well as business workers and entrepreneurs

Course Instructors

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Alysha Randall (CPA)

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Commercially focused Finance Director / CFO with experience working with fast growth online SMEs in different sectors, including two successful exits (Amazon acquisition & Funding Circle’s IPO)
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