Financial and Business Acumen
Financial and Business Acumen introduces essential financial concepts and literacy for non-financial students and professionals without requiring prior financial training.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2020: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Apply the language and foundational tools of finance to analyze how a company’s economic activity is reflected in its financial reports
Perform high-level financial statement analysis to identify important information from financial reports
Apply basic financial concepts of valuation, capital budgeting, and financial decision making
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2· UW Guide 3
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Prerequisites
Course mapGraduate/professional standing. Not open to students declared in an MBA program
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- students declared in an MBA program
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2020: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).
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Topics
- Basic financial terms and reports
- Analytical tools for interpreting financial data
- Budgeting and forecasting with financial data
- Valuation, capital budgeting, and financial decision making
Skills
- Developing financial literacy through essential concepts
- Using analytical tools to interpret financial data
- Applying financial data in budgets and forecasts
- Applying basic concepts of valuation, capital budgeting, and financial decision making
Grades
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