Become a Corporate Financial Planning Analyst

Over the past decade, the financial planning and analysis profession has grown dramatically. Learn the skills you need to gather, analyze and present financial data so you can become a Corporate Financial Planning Analyst, and begin working toward becoming a corporate strategic partner.

• Develop basic financial analyst skills required as a Corporate Financial Planning Analyst
• Demonstrate technical skills to execute effectively.
• Build leadership and communication skills to excel and advance.

• Course 1: Strategic Planning Foundations
• Learn how to conduct an effective strategic planning process that results in a clear, compelling strategic plan for your organization.
• Course 2: Finance Foundations
• Get a basic introduction to the world of finance, from analyzing risk and return and obtaining financing to understanding how markets and banks operate.
• Course 3: Accounting Foundations: Managerial Accounting
• Learn the basics of managerial accounting to help you make better organizational decisions.
• Course 4: Managerial Economics
• Learn how to use economics to make better business decisions. Explore economic theories to strategize and solve business problems from demand and competition to pricing products.
• Course 5: Project Management Foundations
• Learn what it takes to deliver projects successfully. Explore the basics of project management, from building a project plan to managing progress.
• Course 6: Communication Foundations
• Build your communication skills. Learn how to communicate more effectively in professional situations, including meetings, email, and presentations.
• Course 7: Creating and Giving Business Presentations
• Learn the fundamentals of preparing for and delivering a compelling business presentation.
• Course 8: Financial Analysis: Making Business Projections
• Analyze past performance data and get a realistic picture of your company's future performance using Microsoft Excel.
• Course 9: Running a Profitable Business: Understanding Financial Ratios
• Explains what financial ratios such as ROA and ROI mean and how they can be used to identify financial trends or assess a company's financial status.
• Course 10: Excel Data Analysis: Forecasting
• Use Excel's data-analysis tools to create accurate and insightful forecasts.
• Course 11: Excel: Economic Analysis and Data Analytics
• Use big data to forecast economic trends. Find out how to perform regression analysis for economic forecasting using Microsoft Excel.
• Course 12: Financial Forecasting with Big Data
• Quickly create financial forecasts using big data, predictive analytics, and Microsoft Excel.
• Course 13: Forecasting Using Financial Statements
• Learn where a business is headed and the resources it will need to succeed. Find out how to build financial forecasts using income statements and balance sheets.
• Course 14: Finance Foundations: Business Valuation
• Learn how to value a business using different valuation methods, such as multiples, earnings ratios, and discounted cash-flow analysis.
• Course 15: Excel Statistics Essential Training: 1
• Learn statistics. Dr. Joseph Schmuller uses Microsoft Excel to teach the fundamentals of descriptive and inferential statistics.
• Course 16: Learning SQL Programming
• Learn the basics of SQL, the programming language for retrieving and editing data from databases such as SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL.