One of the most important factors in a thriving business is the ability to perform analysis that effectively improves your business in more than one way. Here are three courses that will sharpen your analysis skills on your time.
Business Analysis Foundations
LinkedIn is the biggest source for business social networking and job application sites. One of the reasons aside from being able to connect with other professionals is the resources that the platform offers.
LinkedIn offers courses, certifications, and webinars that improve your skills and displays your course completion as a means to boost your credentials. A win-win. The exams taken at the end of each course are rigorous. By the time your exam is finished, you will live up to the skill set.
Here is a LinkedIn course specifically focused on Business Analysis Foundations. This course emphasizes the importance of building an analytical foundation to keep your business thriving and fail-proof.
If you would prefer another route to LinkedIn, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has a program that makes course material widely available to people not in attendance of the Institution. This course material includes; a course home page, syllabus, calendar, lecture notes, assignments, exams, and downloadable materials for studying. Below are two courses offered by MIT that focus specifically on different types of analysis for business.
Economic Analysis for Business Decisions
The benefit of this course is that it will apply real scenarios in order to solve problems and hone your economics, accounting and finance skills using current events. This class will help you understand what is in financial reports, why certain information is reported and how to properly use the information learned in class in your business. You can find more information about this specific course here.
Business Analysis Using Financial Statements
Business analysis for financial statements is a great follow-up course for economic analysis. This course will allow you to dive even deeper into financial statements. The gold in this class is that you will be so financially aware of how to run your business you won’t give a second thought about taxes and the IRS. Yes, there is a course on this as well!
The purpose of this course is to allow students to examine the market structure, industrial performance, strategy, consumer behavior in different markets, cost analysis, government regulation, planning, and pricing. You can find more information about this course here.
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https://www.linkedin.com/learning/business-analysis-foundations-4/prevent-project-failure-with-business-analysis?autoplay=true&trk=learning-course_table-of-contents_video&upsellOrderOrigin=default_guest_learning https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-535-business-analysis-using-financial-statements-spring-2003/index.htm https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-010-economic-analysis-for-business-decisions-fall-2004/
