Discover how to read between the lines of financial statements and uncover what liquidity really says about a company’s financial health. In this course, you’ll connect the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement to understand how liquidity ratios reveal short-term stability and cash agility. Through real-world case studies, interactive labs, and data-driven exercises, you’ll calculate and interpret key ratios, benchmark performance, and communicate findings with confidence. Coach-guided reflections help you turn numbers into narrative — the skill that defines modern financial analysts. By the end, you’ll know not just how to measure liquidity, but how to explain what it means for business decisions.

In this course, you will strengthen your data hygiene skills by organizing and standardizing financial data so it is clean, consistent, and ready for analysis. You will summarize and evaluate financial information using realistic scenarios, linking multiple data sources to build a simple and digestible summary page for your stakeholders. You will also automate key summary values so they update when raw data changes, and you will determine whether you are over or under budget by comparing actual spend against planned targets. Together, these techniques will help you answer practical financial questions without searching through multiple sheets or relying on manual calculations. By the end, you will be able to turn raw data into clear, dependable insights that support fast and confident decision-making.

In this short, practical course, you’ll learn how to use Lean Six Sigma’s DMAIC framework—Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control—to streamline financial workflows and reduce inefficiency. Through real-world finance examples and hands-on activities, you’ll practice diagnosing root causes, eliminating delays, and sustaining improvements in reporting and control processes. You’ll also apply the SIPOC mapping technique to visualize suppliers, inputs, and outputs, revealing where value is created—or lost—across your workflow. Designed for finance and FP&A professionals, this course gives you a structured, data-driven approach to process improvement that leads to faster cycles, fewer errors, and more confident financial decisions.