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The Business Toolkit

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Excel Efficiency for Financial Modeling and Data Analysis

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9

Hours

10

Topics

40

Practical exercises

1

Exam

Make Excel work harder for you. This course will improve your efficiency with spreadsheets by teaching you essential keyboard shortcuts and financial modeling best practices. Get to grips with Excel’s built-in functions and how to manipulate data quickly and efficiently.

Excel Introduction

58 video minutes

0 excel exercises

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Video minutes 58

Excel Exercises 0

  • Menu and shortcut basics
  • Basic formatting
  • Basic formulas and calculations
  • More formulas and calculations
  • Naming cells and referencing

Advanced Formatting

23 video minutes

5 excel exercises

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Video minutes 23

Excel Exercises 5

  • Formatting styles
  • Conditional formatting
  • Data validation
  • Number formatting
  • Formatting codes
    • Date formatting and functions: =DATE, =DAY, = YEAR, =MONTH, =EDATE
    • Ensuring commas and decimal places line up
    • UPPER, =LOWER. And =PROPER functions
  • Concatenation

Exploring a Model

15 video minutes

4 excel exercises

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Video minutes 15

Excel Exercises 4

  • F5 tips and tricks
  • Camera tool
  • Watch window
  • Split windows
  • Circularity issues

Text and Date Functions

18 video minutes

6 excel exercises

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Video minutes 18

Excel Exercises 6

  • Text and date functions
  • Text and date best practices
  • Working with pdfs
  • DATE, YEAR, MONTH, DAY and EDATE functions
  • Date formatting

Scenarios

28 video minutes

7 excel exercises

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Video minutes 28

Excel Exercises 7

  • Allow assumptions and methodologies to be changed quickly in financial models using a number of different functions:
    • Choose, Offset, Index, adding the Match function
  • Data validation and form controls
  • Conditional formatting
  • Using data tables

Data Extraction

24 video minutes

8 excel exercises

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Video minutes 24

Excel Exercises 8

  • Summary tables and lookups
    • Vlookup, Hlookup, Vlookup and Match, Index and Match, Offset and Match
  • Working with multiple sheets
    • Indirect, Named ranges
  • Transposing data
    • Transpose function, Offset, Row & Column, Offset & Match, Index & Match

Sensitivity Data Tables

13 video minutes

4 excel exercises

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Video minutes 13

Excel Exercises 4

  • Using data tables
  • Data tables on different sheets to the assumptions
  • Advanced and flexible tables

Goal Seek and Solver

6 video minutes

3 excel exercises

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Video minutes 6

Excel Exercises 3

  • Uses of Goal Seek and Solver
  • Goal Seek functionality
  • Solver functionality

Database Analysis

69 video minutes

2 excel exercises

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Video minutes 69

Excel Exercises 2

  • Sorting and filtering data
  • Pivot tables
  • D functions
  • Sumif function

Excel VBA and Macros Introduction

39 video minutes

1 excel exercises

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Video minutes 39

Excel Exercises 1

  • Macro recording basics
  • Macro security
  • Running macros
  • The VBA editor
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Word Fundamentals for Professionals

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2

Hours

If you have ever manually created your own table of contents, struggled to put figures and charts in the right place or spent time updating the same document dozens of times to send out a mailer, then this course is for you.

Word- Introduction

23 video minutes

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Video minutes 23

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  • Understanding the ribbon and the file tab
  • Keyboard shortcuts and customizing the quick access toolbar
  • Best practice when creating a new document
  • Navigation, editing and selecting text
    – Keyboard
    – Mouse
  •  Saving a document

Word - Formatting

27 video minutes

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Video minutes 27

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  • Paragraph
    – Alignment
    – Indentation
    – Spacing
    – Adjusting a whole document
    – Bullets and numbering
    – Changing the order of a list with Alt + Shift
  • The font menu
    – Changing fonts
    – Size, color and highlights
    – Superscript and subscript
    – Change case quickly
  • Styles
    – Efficient use of styles
    – Creating a style
    – Using styles to reorder a document quickly
    – Using styles to create an automatic table of contents

Word - Inserting

27 video minutes

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Video minutes 27

Excel Exercises 0

  • Headers and footers
    – Page numbers
    – Text
    – Show file path for easy retrieval
    – Inserting logos
  • Using comments when collaborating
  • Complex mathematical equations
  • Images from the web and other documents
    – Resizing
    – Cropping
    – Wrapping text around images

Word - Common Tasks

31 video minutes

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Video minutes 31

Excel Exercises 0

  • Find (CTRL + F) and replace (CTRL + H)
  • Spell check
    – Autocorrect
  • Track changes
  • Password protection
  • Saving in Adobe Acrobat
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PowerPoint Fundamentals for Professionals

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1.5

Hours

This course will take you through the tools available within PowerPoint to make building slide decks simple, efficient and effective.

PowerPoint - Introduction

13 video minutes

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Video minutes 13

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  • Creating a new document
  • Understanding the ribbon and the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)
  • Useful Keyboard shortcuts
  •  Slide layouts and the slide master
    – Standard view versus widescreen

PowerPoint - Working with Basic Shapes

22 video minutes

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Video minutes 22

Excel Exercises 0

  • Inserting
  • Moving and nudging shapes
  • Using guidelines
  • Resizing and rotating
  • Align and distribute
  • Send backwards, send forwards
  • Selecting multiple objects
    – Group and ungroup

PowerPoint - Working with Text

5 video minutes

0 excel exercises

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Video minutes 5

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  • Formatting
  • Adjusting internal margins in shapes
  • Find and replace
  • Changing the order of text in a list
  • Shapes vs text boxes

PowerPoint - Lines and Connectors

20 video minutes

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Video minutes 20

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  • Start and end styles
  • Linking objects

PowerPoint - Pictures

8 video minutes

0 excel exercises

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Video minutes 8

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  • Cropping
  • Taking screenshots
    – Print screen
    – Snipping tool
  • Compressing pictures to reduce file size

PowerPoint - Charts and Tables

9 video minutes

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Video minutes 9

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  • Simple PowerPoint charts
  • Pasting charts as pictures from Excel
  • Pasting dynamic charts from Excel
  • Formatting
  • Design and layout menus

PowerPoint - SmartArt Graphics

5 video minutes

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Video minutes 5

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  • Lists
  • Editing
  • Converting text to SmartArt

PowerPoint - Equations and Animations

5 video minutes

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  • Building equations
  • Building complex equations
  • Animation pane controls
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Outlook Fundamentals for Professionals

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1.5

Hours

This course will take you right from the initial setup of your email account, including the basics of sending and receiving emails and setting up folders, through to more advanced features such as mail merge.

Outlook - Introduction

80 video minutes

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Video minutes 80

Excel Exercises 0

  • Setting up and linking multiple email accounts
  • Reviewing the types of data files which can be sent
  • Composing a basic email with attachments
  • Shortcuts to improve efficiency
  • Setting up an ‘Out of Office’ notification and calendar events
  • Creating and managing tasks
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Communicating and Presenting Fundamentals

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22

Minutes

Are you ready to unlock your presentation potential? Our instructor-led online course will help you shortcut your way to success by mastering the art of communication.

Fundamentals of Presentation and Communication

22 video minutes

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Video minutes 22

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  • What ‘effective communication’ means
  • The effective communication cycle
  • Using more powerful questions
  • Understanding needs at a deeper level
  • Becoming a more active listener
  • The importance of summarising
  • Planning, designing and delivering impactful, persuasive presentations
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Fundamentals of Effective Business Writing

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15

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1

Exam

Understand how to develop your writing skills to communicate effectively with any audience and deliver high impact statements.

Developing Your Business Writing Effectiveness

8 video minutes

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Video minutes 8

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  • Why business writing is important to performance and career success
  • Considering your goal and principles for making your business writing stand out
  • The 5 steps to business writing success
  • The structure for persuasive business writing
  • Using a thorough review process
  • How to grab your audience’s attention when writing emails
  • Using different influencing strategies
  • Breaking up content and avoiding jargon
  • Avoiding dilution language
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Managing Your Brand and Career

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15

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1

Exam

Understand how to build your brand with a focused application on managing your career path.

Building Your Brand and Career

10 video minutes

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Video minutes 10

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  • Understanding how to unlock your true reputation and career
  • A review of the 3 critical career success factors
  • Performance
  • Image
  • Exposure
  • Understanding what you want your brand to be
  • How to apply a ‘best version of you’ performance mindset
  • Unlocking high impact behaviours
  • Understand the steps to network strategically
  • Build long-term mutually beneficial relationships
  • Principles of reciprocity and rapport
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Introduction to Python

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7

Hours

8

Topics

44

Practical exercises

1

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Take part in our online Introduction to Python course to start developing programming skills for financial calculations and data analysis. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the programming concepts, as well as practical experience in some of the core data analysis libraries used in Python, with a particular focus on PyCharm.

Getting Started with Python

9 video minutes

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Video minutes 9

Excel Exercises 0

  • What is Python and why should we use Python
  • Efficiency of Python
  • How is Python used in the finance industry
  • Different Python options available
  • Installing Python
  • Selecting a Python tool and Integrated Development Environments (IDEs

Python Basics

30 video minutes

6 excel exercises

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Video minutes 30

Excel Exercises 6

  • Building operations
  • Naming variables
  • Common data types
  • String concatenation and replication
  • Creating lists
  • Creating sets
  • Basic functions

Building Functions

17 video minutes

4 excel exercises

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Video minutes 17

Excel Exercises 4

  • IF statement
  • While loops
  • For loops
  • Building functions

Introduction to Libraries

4 video minutes

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Video minutes 4

Excel Exercises 0

  • Types of libraries
  • About NumPy
  • About Pandas
  • About Matplotlib

NumPy

19 video minutes

6 excel exercises

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Video minutes 19

Excel Exercises 6

  • Installing NumPy
  • NumPy arrays
  • Examples of vectors and matrices
  • Creating a NumPy array from a list
  • Creating NumPy array using built-in Functions
  • Creating an array of random numbers using NumPy
  • NumPy finance functions

Pandas

28 video minutes

9 excel exercises

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Video minutes 28

Excel Exercises 9

  • What is Pandas and why use it
  • Capabilities of Pandas
  • Object creation
  • Creating DataFrames in Pandas
  • Pandas DataFrame syntax
  • Indexing data from DataFrame
  • Importing data into Python
  • Importing DataFrame operations

Matplotlib

25 video minutes

10 excel exercises

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Video minutes 25

Excel Exercises 10

  • Learn about Matplotlib
  • Link between Matplotlib and Pyplot
  • Intro to Pyplot
  • Plotting with keyword strings
  • Creating plots
  • Plotting different data types
  • Limits, legends and layouts

Dates and Times

17 video minutes

9 excel exercises

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Excel Exercises 9

  • Calendar
  • Dates
  • Formatting
  • Time Deltas

Skills & Learning Objectives in The Business Toolkit Micro-Degree

Recognized by industry experts

Colin Evans

Managing Director at J.P. Morgan

Colin Evans is a Managing Director at J.P Morgan and leads the financial institutions coverage team globally for the Corporate Banking.

Dr. Bridget Lyons

Professor of Finance

Professor of Finance at the Jack Welch College of Business at Sacred Heart University and Associate Instructor.

Chris Bishko

CFO

CFO with over 25 years experience as an operator, investor and investment banker in technology and financial services.

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Established on Wall Street, Financial Edge has taught at the biggest bulge-bracket firms since 2016, and now we offer that very same training online for you. It’s no secret that banking is fiercely competitive, which is why our Wall Street recognized certification is designed to let your employers know you have the skills to succeed.

This course is officially CPD certified

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) keeps a record of your increasing skills, knowledge and experience throughout your career, which now includes select Financial Edge certifications.

Complete a Micro‑degree to join our exclusive alumni

Sit beside the world’s best investment bankers on LinkedIn, and take advantage of exclusive must-have benefits for new and experienced analysts.

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  • Search across 350+ playlists, 3000+ videos and Q&As
  • Role-focused pathways
  • Expert instructor support

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Searchable library of 350+ playlists, 3000+ videos and Q&As
10 role-based learning pathways, including Investment Banking, Equity Research, Sales and Trading and more
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Practical exercises to work alongside videos and quick quizzes to test your understanding
Weekly live webinars
Streamlined company data (WACC. & EV bridge calculator, custom comparables)
Current and historic filings for over 4,000 US firms
Current and historic filings for over 7,000 firms globally
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