Accounting and Finance Business Productivity Bundle (Udemy.com)

**This bundle includes practice exercises, downloadable files, and LIFETIME access**

Welcome to the Accounting and Finance Business Productivity Bundle, a meticulously curated collection designed to elevate your understanding and application of financial modeling, data analysis, and artificial intelligence integration. This amazing-value seven-course bundle gets you full access to courses on financial forecasting, risk management, Excel data analysis, and AI to help boost your accounting and business productivity.

The only prerequisites to these courses are a basic understanding of finance and accounting, access to the applications used and taught in this bundle, and an eagerness to learn.

What's included?

The Accountants Excel Toolkit

• Navigate and format data in Excel efficiently and grasp Excel formulas and functions.

• Import and deduplicate files using advanced functions like XLOOKUP.

• Understand accounting principles and the accounting cycle.

• Understand the fundamentals of assets, expenses, liabilities, and income.

• Record journal entries for assets, expenses, income, and liabilities.

• Link accounts in QuickBooks Online, ensuring consistently updated records.

• Prepare a trial balance and pass adjusting entries at the end of an accounting period.

• Develop an insightful overview of financial statements.

• Decode a company's financial health through various ratio analyses.

• Efficiently reconcile accounts using both Excel and QuickBooks Online.

Financial Forecasting and Modeling

• The basics of financial modeling and forecasting using Excel

• The purpose of financial forecasting

• How to build a sound financial model

• The role of forecasting in strategic planning

• How to go through the three financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement)

• How to define your forecasting objectives

• Identifying key variables and drivers

• Analyzing financial forecasts using ratio analysis

• Future trends in forecasting.

Financial Risk Management

• Distinguish between risk, uncertainty, and randomness

• Distinguish between risk management and risk measurement

• Understand the importance of risk governance

• Describe risk budgeting and understand its role in risk governance

• Realize the importance of managing people, processes, technology, and organizational structure for effective risk management

• Recognize the difference between idiosyncratic and systematic risks

• Define, classify, and distinguish between financial risks

• Identify and understand the principles of credit, foreign exchange, interest rate, and operational risk

• Recognize probability, standard deviation, Value-at-Risk (VaR), and scenario analysis/stress testing as risk measurement metrics

• Distinguish between risk prevention and avoidance

• Define and apply the concepts of self-insurance, risk shifting, and risk transfer

• Realize insurance as a way to transfer risks

• Recognize outsourcing and derivatives as two ways of shifting risk.

Data Analysis with Excel

• Describe the fundamentals of Excel spreadsheets, from their layout to the applications

• View, enter, and format data types in Excel

• Understand and apply Excel formulas and functions

• Import file data and remove duplicates

• Identify data attributes

• Sort data and apply filters, including advanced filtering techniques

• Apply Concatenation and Sum-if formulas to analyze data sets

• Create problem statements to tackle complicated “or” criteria

• Create Pivot tables and charts

• Work with Excel charts, including clustered columns, line graphs, and waterfalls

• Utilize database functions created specifically to work with large datasets

• Apply techniques to recognize and avoid formula errors

• Understand and use the What-If Analysis toolkit which includes the Scenario Manager, Goal Seek, and Data Table Functions

• Use the Analysis ToolPak to calculate basic statistical concepts such as correlation and covariance

• Compute descriptive statistics and moving averages and apply exponential smoothing techniques

• Utilize rank and percentile options and generate histograms.

AI in Action: Transforming Financial Operations

• Explain the evolution and impact of AI in finance.

• Set up accounts and entities in Syft Analytics.

• Design financial statements using Syft Analytics.

• Create polished proposals and presentations using Tome.

• Simplify accounting processes with SaasAnt Transactions.

• Utilize AI for advanced spreadsheet functions and problem-solving.

Using ChatGPT to Increase Accounting Productivity

• Explain the benefits of ChatGPT in accounting.

• Set up and customize chart of accounts using ChatGPT.

• Optimize inventory management with ChatGPT tools.

• Utilize ChatGPT for efficient tax compliance and planning.

• Automate accounts receivable and payable processes with ChatGPT.

• Conduct AI-powered audit planning and risk assessments.

Financial Modelling with Generative AI

• Understand the fundamentals of financial statements.

• Integrate ChatGPT to create and project financial statements efficiently.

• Build and analyze common size income statements using AI for better insights.

• Automate financial ratio calculations and improve analysis with ChatGPT.

• Create real-time financial dashboards for data visualization and reporting.

• Use ChatGPT to perform scenario analysis and sensitivity testing for forecasts.

• Apply AI to advanced financial modelling techniques like Altman’s Z-score and DuPont analysis.

This course bundle includes:

1. 24+ hours of video tutorials

2. 200+ individual video lectures

3. Course and exercise files to follow along