This course is for aspiring or active product leaders who wants to understand how to secure and manage funding for their activities. We will demystify key accounting and financing concepts to give product leaders a guide to developing the business case for their ideas, and securing funding to translate ideas into reality.
Financial Management for Product Leaders
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Financial Management for Product Leaders
This course is part of Product Ideation, Design, and Management Specialization
Instructors: Dr. James V. Green
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9 hours to complete
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What you'll learn
Learn the fundamentals and how to create financial statements for new ventures within the corporate environment
Examine valuation techniques for understanding how to assess and grow the value of the corporate venture
Explore the different sources of internal and external financing for the corporate venture
Applying lessons learned in the course to structure a funding deal and pitch the corporate venture
Skills you'll gain
- Financial Accounting
- Cash Flows
- Proposal Writing
- Product Management
- Capital Budgeting
- Return On Investment
- Cost Benefit Analysis
- Financial Management
- Entrepreneurial Finance
- Corporate Finance
- Finance
- Business Valuation
- Financial Modeling
- Accounting and Finance Software
- Presentations
- Project Finance
- Financial Statements
- Business Metrics
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Taught in English
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This course is part of the Product Ideation, Design, and Management Specialization
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DP
Reviewed on Dec 6, 2021
Its a biginner course and has enough what a product manager or a team lead needs
SA
Reviewed on Aug 13, 2023
The course was incredibly useful, but the quality of the videos was horrible. If you could redo the course to get better quality, it would be a great idea.
AL
Reviewed on Dec 2, 2022
Great Course, especially the Course 5 on Financials was amazing
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