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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Finance for Non-Financial Professionals by University of California, Irvine

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About the Course

Impact your financial decisions and learn how to affect the performance of your unit's profitability and of your organization. In this course gain a basic understanding of finance and accounting concepts to drive your organization's growth. Upon completion of this course, you will have gained general financial knowledge and an in-depth understanding of the impact of your decisions outside your functional area. Content of the course includes selected aspects of finance from a non-financial specialist perspective. Specific topics include: financial analysis; planning, forecasting, and budgeting; cash flow, and strategic financing. This class will be interactive and will require the active involvement of the participants in finance related activities. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Explain the importance of finance and interpretation of financial information 2. Apply the concepts of accounting and finance to analyze financials 3. Learn about key accounting and finance terms 4. Examine financial statements by using key ratios 5. Explain the importance of budgeting process 6. Learn about key components needed to improve profitability...

Top reviews

AC

Dec 14, 2017

I've enjoyed this course. Prof. Standen gives a very basic but clear overview of the most common financial topics, wished I had this course a couple of years ago it would have made my life way easier.

EM

Feb 21, 2019

An excellent well-rounded course and perfect for anyone who would like to gain some insight into financial practices. I would highly recommend this course, "Finance for Non-Financial Professionals."

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By Estefania T

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Mar 1, 2020

Información precisa y clara, con ejemplos que permiten entender mejor los conceptos e invita a explorar y conocer más del tema

By Spyridon X

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Oct 20, 2019

Basic knowledge in order to get an idea of things that otherwise would seem greek for somebody. Simple and useful! Thank you.

By Yuehan C

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Nov 25, 2018

This course is useful for the people who doesn't know the knowledge about the finance. And the teacher's teaching is clear.

By Oindrila M

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Jul 22, 2021

A perfect course for a person with non financial background to get introduced to the common concepts and terms of finance.

By Daniel C I

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Nov 2, 2020

Este es un curso que todos los profesionales independiente de nuestra formación deberíamos aprender, lo recomiendo mucho.

By Tousif J

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Oct 5, 2016

This is a fantastic course. I never thought that finance can be so easy and interesting. Thank you. Love from Bangladesh.

By Anubhav R

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Apr 2, 2020

Superb Course.

Really learned a lot. Would definitely request faculty to devise more such courses.

Thanking You once again.

By Ankita K

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Oct 20, 2015

Very helpful! Explained well. I'm a business and M&A lawyer and I found this course extremely valuable to skill building.

By Trish O M

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Jun 14, 2021

I loved the simple way in which the instructor broke down concepts, it made formerly complex concepts so easy to follow!

By Keylor Q Q

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Oct 28, 2020

El curso es muy interesantes ya que habla sobre términos que desconocía pero que ahora entiendo gracias a la explicación

By Rawdha S M A Q

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Jun 21, 2020

nice course and a simple overview of the difference between finance and accounting!! overview of some financial concepts

By HEMANT K

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Jun 8, 2020

Amazing and very insightful course for those who are far from financial world. It changed the way I look at finance now.

By María d C O R

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Aug 9, 2016

Yo no tenía una idea clara sobre las finanzas, este curso me ayudó a comprender conceptos fundamentales. ¡¡¡Excelente!!!

By Carlos A C C - F

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Jan 17, 2017

Easy to understand, covered important aspects that while some may be intuitive, it is always good to see them in paper.

By Rahul S

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Dec 21, 2015

Best beginner level course for finance novices. Superbly structured and filled with great examples. Happy learning :)

By Michelle R

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Sep 10, 2015

The concepts are very clear, but in order to get understanding I think it's necesary to provide additional exercises

By Kitahara Y

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Aug 20, 2020

Interesting to a self-employed person like myself. Useful and practical tips that helps running a small business.

By Saad R

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Jun 21, 2020

The course is well deserved to be 5 stars. The contents of course are concise yet the content is fairly powerful.

By Yeimy M J G

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Oct 24, 2020

El curso es de bastante ayuda para el aprendizaje de las finanzas, estoy muy feliz por mi progreso en esta área.

By Mohammad M H

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Jul 19, 2020

This is very interactive course and very easy to understand the course curriculum and lecture of the instructor.

By ANJALI K

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Aug 27, 2018

IT IS REALLY WORTHFUL FOR NON-FINANCE PEOPLE TO HAVE CONFIDENT TO SPEAK UP OR TO UNDERSTAND INFRONT FINANCE PEOP

By Pedro A B P

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Aug 30, 2015

It's a great course!

The Professor does make the topics very understandable. Everything is useful in this course.

By Luiz G A

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Sep 18, 2017

Curso foi ótimo. Somente o tema da legenda em portugues que não se cumpriu, porém foi bom para treinar o ingles

By Riki R

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Mar 6, 2022

just the right level of information and difficulty, but need more downloadable sample of detailed calculations

By Goh W K

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Sep 14, 2020

Easy to understand and follow and sufficient basic knowledge for a new micro start up self proprietor like me.