This free online course is one of 10 courses available in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women collection, designed for entrepreneurs ready to take their business to the next level. This course will introduce you to business finance, and show you how to use financial statements to understand and monitor your company’s financial position in order to make key business decisions. The exercises will introduce you to the Income Statement and Balance Sheet. Interpreting these statements and calculating key financial ratios such as net profit margin and current ratio will give you a clear understanding of your current business performance. With this information, you will have the skills to assess the financial implications of your growth opportunity more accurately. The 10,000 Women course collection offers a truly flexible online learning experience. You have the freedom to approach the program in any way that works for you – take any course, or combination of courses, to tailor your learning journey to your individual business growth needs. If you choose to take all 10 courses, you will explore all the key elements of your business and develop a thorough plan for your business’s growth. You can find out more about the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women collection in the FAQs.
DC
Thank you for this free offering. I feel much better about the basic numbers on the balance and PL statement. I still need to expand on the ratios, but a great start. Thank you!!
LH
i learned a lot, though I did have to go look into the glossary as they did not describe what Amortization was and I had to stop the videos a lot so I could write down notes
RC
This course has helped me to take note of my spending as well as revenue. Also, how I can analyze my Income Statement and Balance Sheet in order to know what business decisions I can take.
BI
This is a great beginning to learn about your finances overall even if you don't own a business, it is very helpful to also learn to manage your personal finances.
SR
This free course from Goldman Sachs was very helpful for me. I learned many useful things about business and how to grow it. I will tell other Afghan girls to join this great chance.
A
I enjoyed taking this course, it was very easy to follow and I learnt a lot from it. The knowledge gained in this course has helped me build my current financial statements.
EF
Great review of the basics of business finance with the appropriate level of detail to begin managing business finance more intentionally - exactly what I was looking for.
RK
this course helped me understand what is an Income statement and understand what is profitability. also how to read a Balance sheet and analyze mt assets and Liabilities.
HS
This is the most important aspect to understanding your business! This course is a real eye-opener and extremely helpful in providing clarity for women business owners. I highly recommend it.
NO
This course is an eye opener. It made me understand the financial statements in a way that I can analyse my statements and be able to take business decisions
CB
This course covers 2 basic financial documents- the Income Statement and Balance Sheet. I was familiar with them and felt comfortable but I think a Beginner could benefit from a few more examples.
AR
it is the best for me to understand about business... or if I want to build a business if I become a business man in the future... atleast I have an idea about business ... Thank you
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this course helped me understand what is an Income statement and understand what is profitability. also how to read a Balance sheet and analyze mt assets and Liabilities.
an excellent class, about empowering women willing to earn the living on their own by learning accounting in order to properly manage their ventures
Awesome, i have learnt the importance of my financial statements, how to put together my income statement and balance sheet and also how to calculate my profitability ratio, I always knew the importance of proper financial management but did not know how to go about it. i can confidently say i am a semi pro
A very good and informative course for the beginners especially for those who are not from finance background. It can be of great help to those who have little knowledge in Finance and want to start their own business. This course is very crisp and to the point.
This course has helped me to take note of my spending as well as revenue. Also, how I can analyze my Income Statement and Balance Sheet in order to know what business decisions I can take.
This course was simple to follow and easy to understand, Add value to knowledge and provided the ability to better understand how and whether my business was actually making a profit and what the movement on my income statement and balance sheet truly meant. Thank you for the opportunity to learn and to better equip myself to take my business further.
Very interactive and easy understanding course. It helped me to understand Financial basic terms and concepts that are important to know when running a business. I feel more confident and aware about how to make smart decisions related to my business.
A very good course for helping you understand the true meaning of your financial statements which helps you take calculated decisions for your business.
Very informative
This is definitely a course I appreciated signing onto. Always a continuous development enthusiast! A fresh look at the important aspects of business finance to bring up at board and team meetings, to ensure the organisation is making the right operational and strategic decisions on an ongoing and progressive basis.
The Financial Statements examples for the pre-assessment used an atyptical method of placing columns for Year 2 first and Year 1 second. I believe in the final post-assessment these columns were displayed in a typical fashion. It may prove prudent to maintain consistency.
This course is very well organised to provide an understanding of how to assess the financials of an organisation. Anyone that understands basic communication can learn from this and I think it's also taught in different languages.
The course is well-designed. Financial terms and concepts are well explained and discussed in a manner that is easy to understand, even if someone is without a finance background.
Fantastic course to understanding financial statements and terms and also ratios that can be used to measure the performance of the business for informed decision making.
Liked the course. Before starting this course I had no knowledge of finance but now I know plenty of things.
It's a great place to start with Basics of Finance. They have simplified the content really well !
Easy, instrumental, useful and very very relevant. I am so excited and proud I took this course
Set up very well. I loved the regular check-ins. It helped to highlight key points.
Helped to guide my thoughts and understand how to organize our finances better.
I love the design of the course. Very efficient and effective!