In this course, you’ll explore how financial statement data and non-financial metrics can be linked to financial performance. Professors Rick Lambert and Chris Ittner of the Wharton School have designed this course to help you gain a practical understanding of how data is used to assess what drives financial performance and forecast future financial scenarios. You’ll learn more about the frameworks of financial reporting, income statements, and cash reporting, and apply different approaches to analyzing financial performance using real-life examples to see the concepts in action. By the end of this course, you’ll have honed your skills in understanding how financial data and non-financial data interact to forecast events and be able to determine the best financial strategy for your organization.
HK
Very well structured, suitable for non financial experts, provides a good overview and introduction into the financial world.Would appreciate more content into the slides.
SL
5 stars for the depth of coverage and letting me try 3 times to pass the test. its challenging but it also made me think harder.=)
JL
Basic overview on Financial Analysis. Should bring in more healthcare related items and review healthcare financial statements and financial drivers
LS
This Course was very helpful and providing an excellent knowledge about Financial Results with proper integration with non-financial performance. I really enjoyed the course !
CC
The course is very helpful and informative for anyone who isn't coming from a financial background. Learnt so much from this. Thanks for the effort!!
RM
Very thorough. Great use of real world examples and faculty are knowledgable and present the materials in an easy to learn format.
FL
It is a good course and was helpful. The multiple choice questions were tough because it felt like there wasn't enough information toanswer them effectively.
SS
Level of Difficulty is good. Challenging at times to executives in firms who don't have much exposure to financial aspects of the firm. But grit will help you go through the course and complete it.
GC
I'm Donatus and I want to stress that this course is worth taking.I enjoyed the course and would recommend it to whoever wishes to expand his or her knowledge in the financial management circle.
ML
Appreciate the works that Professors Rick Lambert and Chris Ittner have done.One suggestion is to add more samples to explain the concepts.
YP
A bit too theoritical in my view -- might be useful for large corporations, but felt a bit lacking in more practical terms. Good value anyways
BP
Great course!, It gives so much insights about how to understand the business performance and to make strategic decision with much better foundations. Thank you!
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feedback is very poor from the quiz especially from the questions with multiple answers
It was great. I had little issues in understanding little bit as i am medical background, it would be great if it had some medical examples.
The course was OK. However, the quizzes do not match the wording of the lectures or accompanying material. Worse, many of the questions are the "pick the best answers" type which if you make even one mistake the whole question is wrong. There is zero feedback on the test results so you have no idea what was wrong. I would have just abandoned this course but it was required for the specialization. Finally got it done. Not a good learning experience and if I want to learn more of this stuff I will pick a better learner centric venue. Tests should be a teaching tool that aid in knowledge acquisition. Not a big, got ya!
This course provides rather intense learning materials and competitive quizzes, urging me to do more research outside of the classes. The course content is informative and a little bit challenging, bur learning it is definitely a rewarding experience. The skills on accounting and building financial models offer me a new perspective and many insights on evaluating the financial performance of companies and strategies they use. Thank you for preparing such a great course.
I do not have a background of Finance and Accounting. This course is really for me to learn the basics and apply it in my practice
Not enough examples in many of the accounting concepts covered. The quizzes were way too hard. It seems like this course would be more suitable for someone with some prior financial knowledge. A nurse or medical professional, without any prior financial knowledge, could get lost quite easily in this course.
The content of Weeks 2 and 3 was fairly difficult by comparison, and the slides were not quite enough detail to be a good reference to prepare for the quiz. I found myself trying to google terms, since there is no "textbook". Overall however, a very valuable course!
The classes were amazing and the quizzes helpful and challenging. I am a medical student in one of the top universities in my country, unfortunately our healthcare managing discipline does not even scrape the most fundamental aspect of managing, which is accounting. Most of the medical students in my country do not have the slightest idea of the economic dynamic behind healthcare, that's why I am recommending this course for all my colleagues. I hope that this knowledge will change our culture, that in most instances only result in the tragedy of commons.
I began this course with very limited knowledge about the role of finance in decision making and ended it with a great overview of its different aspects. Professors Richard Lambert and Christopher Ittner explain the concepts elegantly and at the right pace. The content and teaching were engaging and easy to follow. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone who wants to gain good knowledge on using financial data to identify key drivers and take the right decision.
I earned an MBA more than 20 years ago and accounting was my most challenging subject. This course was extremely difficult because I have not had to use most of the accounting knowledge I gained during the MBA program 20 years ago. However, as I worked through each module, certain terms and processes were familiar to me because of the accounting class I took more than 20 years ago.
Everything i was looking for from this course and more.
Both professors had good lecturing styles and kept the content interesting.
The pace of content was considerate of the likely target audience.
I wish some of the quizzes didn't have so many "check all that apply" questions.
Overall, the best course in the Finance and Quantitative Modeling for Analysts Specialization
While I have studied accounting briefly at a high school level, I had not understood it in the context of healthcare much. This course really helped me relate the two. It was an excellent course and I learnt a lot. The test questions made you think and apply what you had learnt in the lectures. It was truly helpful and the quality of this course was fantastic.
This Course was very helpful and providing an excellent knowledge about Financial Results with proper integration with non-financial performance. I really enjoyed the course !
Great course!, It gives so much insights about how to understand the business performance and to make strategic decision with much better foundations. Thank you!
Level of Difficulty is good. Challenging at times to executives in firms who don't have much exposure to financial aspects of the firm. But grit will help you go through the course and complete it.
Would be helpful if more case examples were provided from the health industry, such as health service organizations, pharmaceutical companies, or private health insurance companies.
The course is really good and I recommended it to my colleagues. It doesn't get 5 stars from me because of the test for week 3 which seems weird.
Great way to learn , some topics are really hard to understand if you dont read some Financial Terms
The module was very informative but lacked examples about the Healthcare industry.
Should consider having a tutor or have users apply to be peer tutor to better facilitates the learning process and forum.