How to Become a Financial Analyst from Scratch! (Udemy.com)
Become a finance professional, earn over $120,000 per year and boost your career and life. Learn all from scratch!
Created by: Financial Courses
Last updated March 2016
What you will learn
- Start the path toward a career in financial analysis
- Understand how companies work from the financial standpoint
- Build the main financial statements
- Perform a ratio analysis
- Understand how to use the profitability framework
How it compares
Against the other 376 rated Udemy courses in Finance & Accounting on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 28% of them
- Reviews1,386#101 of 377 by number of reviews
- Length4.8 hoursshorter than 50% of them
- Last updatedMarch 2016earlier than 98% of them
Course Description
Do you want to work in finance but do not have the time and money to enroll in an MBA? Continue reading…
The Quickest and Simplest way to become a Financial Analyst
Becoming a Financial Analyst can be very gratifying from different perspectives. Indeed, this profession was ranked among the most paid in the business world in 2015. As you can imagine this brings a lot of competition into the industry. On the other hand, if you want to earn over $120,000 per year, to work in a dynamic environment while focusing on new exciting projects each time, this profession is for you!
Do you want to learn all the basic concepts of the financial world?
Through my course you will build a strong foundation in accounting with the section: “become an accountant from scratch." Furthermore, you will acquire a strong foundation in Financial Statements and Ratio analysis throughout the rest of the course.
You will learn all you have to know in regard to:
- Accounting Cycle.
- Financial Statements.
- Profitability Framework.
- Ratio Analysis.
- DuPont Analysis.
- And much more...
Build the foundation that will lead to a successful career in finance
A deeper understanding of the above topics will make your life much easier as Financial Analyst. When I first started in this profession I didn't have a strong understanding of the above concepts. This slowed my progress a lot. Had I mastered those concepts before, I would have progressed 10x faster in my role.
Content and Overview
Suitable for students who want to become Financial Analysts, for practitioners, who want to boost their career, or entrepreneurs, who want to learn more about Financial Analysis, the course will help you to gain the following benefits:
- Become extremely knowledgeable and versatile in disciplines such as accounting, financial statements and ratio analysis.
- Build a strong theoretical and practical foundation, which will give you an invaluable edge over your competition. Many "know-how" about things but few know "why."
- Become invaluable for your organization.
The knowledge acquired in over 10 years of experience in the financial world is distilled in few hours. Indeed, I managed a team within the accounting and finance department of an Investment Firm, based in California. In addition, I worked as business journalist in Washington D.C. Also I completed my MBA across Europe and US. This course is my attempt to share with you the knowledge acquired throughout those life experiences!
In this course you will find a great deal of resources:
- The Accounting Guide (E-book)
- Extra Slides
- The Accounting Game (an original way to learn how to build your financials in excel)
- Quiz and Crossword to assess your level
- Much more!
Financial Accounting is the key to understand business. If you want to boost your career, join us!
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
1,386 Reviews
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Reviews
By Esra İ. on 9/5/2024
The course is for people who know some base of accounting. It was nice to see how an experienced accountant would convey his journey with this course regardless
By Elvis Kongolo on 12/24/2019
Straight to the point. I liked the accounting game to drill the concepts. practice makes perfect. I feel more confident and understand the financial statements better. More exercises or practical examples would be great.
By Gabriel on 12/11/2019
I was bit skeptical at the introduction stages. As I continued along the sections, it became engaging to learn and I started understanding things in simpler terms. thumbs up to Cuofano.
By Ali Abo Elyazid on 9/6/2019
I have learned a lot from this course. It contains useful information that will help you a lot if you understand the concepts of each ratio. It's actually helping me in my startup company. Thanks and Regards
By Suvadip Kundu on 2/12/2019
An excellent starting point for someone looking at Financial Planning/ Analysis as a career. Gennaro has several other courses in Udemy which are complementary to this course and provide a good line of sight to the world of corporate finance. This course has a good number of exercises and take away e-books/pdf documents which I will surely end up using as quick references as need be.
By Anonymized User on 2/10/2019
as an accounting student this course really helped me understand some important stuff and to be able to keep harmonized books and to know how can a transaction affects on accounting reports
By Eric Rogers on 12/30/2018
Really easy refresher to help me prime for interviews etc. I already have an MBA but had to brush up on things as Finance isn't my strong suit. Well done, recommend easy to do on a Saturday afternoon.
By Tadej Legat on 10/28/2018
The course is absolutely great for every begginer eager to learn financial fundamentals (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement,...). I would definitely recommend it.
By Ashraf K M on 9/8/2018
Good coverage of the subject, any non-accountant can follow. Heading look a little awkward, how to make a Financial Analyst by this preliminary knowledge? Anyhow good job, I liked it.
By Egle Kazlauskaite on 6/27/2018
It was a very interesting course. So much examples, very detailed and very useful. I got so much new information from this course. Also the lecturer gave some exercises to think for yourself. Thank you for your experience which you shared during this course.
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Overall Score : 88 / 100







