FINANCE

Regardless of your background and career goals, understanding how to manage your finances and make good financial decisions is a critical skill. This text explores personal finances through the lens of common economic decisions, covering banking and the financial system, budgeting, planning for retirement, investing, and insurance. It also examines the psychology behind some of our most common economic decisions and discusses strategies to avoid common pitfalls.

This resource is an introduction to the world of finance for majors and non-majors, with a focus on applying theory to everyday life. It provides a basic framework for students to evaluate economic problems and solutions. Students will develop financial analysis skills needed to make decisions in the business environment.

Excel is an important tool for any finance-related career. This module includes an introduction and 12 lessons that teach how to use Excel in the field of finance. Each lesson includes instruction, examples, and an assignment to help students apply what they have learned.

This resource is an introduction to the world of finance for majors and non-majors, with a focus on applying theory to everyday life along with application in Excel. It provides a basic framework for students to evaluate economic problems and solutions. Students will develop financial analysis skills needed to make decisions in the business environment.

At its core, finance is simply the word we use for the analytics that support decision-making. In this course, students explore financial markets, lean methods to evaluate bonds and stocks, understand the trade-off between using debt or equity to finance investments, and apply methods of capital budgeting and firm valuation. These financial analysis skills provide crucial support for organizational decisions and strategy.

Finance and technology have been interlocked for decades. With the explosion of fintech, the stakes are even higher. The finance industry has burgeoning demand for professionals equipped to handle both big data and high-performance computing. In this resource, students learn Python in a strategic manner tailored to finance and data analytics. They are introduced to key finance topics and trained to use Python skills to solve problems as they work through case studies.

Financial markets and instruments are the oil that keeps industry moving. In this resource, students learn about the role of markets in keeping the world of business turning as well as specific financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, derivatives, and cryptocurrencies. With a focus on the intuition behind financial markets and instruments, this resource presents these topics in a new and easy-to-understand way.

Finance is key for decision-making in modern business, and Microsoft Excel is an invaluable tool for financial analysis. At some point in their career, your students will be responsible for meeting (or setting) financial goals, optimizing investment returns, and, ultimately, creating value. This resource will introduce these future business professionals to key topics in finance as they use Excel to solve problems by working through case studies.

This resource provides a basic introduction to the terminology and mathematical concepts needed for success in an undergraduate-level finance course. Students will become familiar with the three major financial statements and develop confidence in computational and statistical methods used in finance.

This introductory course provides a broad understanding of the world of finance. Using LinkedIn Learning videos along with real-life examples, students study the basics of finance—deciding what you need to buy, determining where you are going to get the money to buy those things, and then managing those things once they are inside the company.