Gies College of Business, University of Illinois

The courses in the Professional Success Skills specialization are led by multiple Gies College of Business at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty. These faculty have over 250 years of collective academic and professional experience. They represent all areas of Gies College of Business, including Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Global Perspectives, Leadership, Innovation, Marketing, Finance, and Accounting. Individual faculty introductions and bios are included in each course.

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Introduction to Financial Analysis - The "Why?" (Coursera)

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?

Financial Analysis of Organizations (Coursera)

This course focuses on adopting and implementing a financially analytic mindset when analyzing organizational activities, position and performance. This course begins with an overview of an organization’s financial statements, including the balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement, as well as the transactions that comprise these statements. [...]

Financial Analysis of Scenarios and Decisions (Coursera)

This course focuses on adopting and implementing a financially analytic mindset when engaged in organizational decision-making and scenario analysis. The course begins with an overview of the "internal" perspective of the organization, in which you will learn fundamental concepts, including the importance of how cost information is organized for [...]