University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Business Data Management and Communication Specialization
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Business Data Management and Communication Specialization

Discover and discern the value of information. Learners will be able to work with data, obtain valuable information, and gauge its economic utility.

Unnati Narang
Oktay Urcan
Douglas B. Laney

Instructors: Unnati Narang

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2 months
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Intermediate level
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2 months
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Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

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Specialization - 6 course series

Financial Accounting: Foundations

Course 112 hours4.7 (4,467 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Accounting information and how it is used by different capital market participants

  • Record financial information and produce the main financial statements

  • Fundamental accounting concepts and revenue recognition criteria in preparing financial statements,

  • Conduct the accounting for short-term assets, with a particular focus on accounts receivables and inventories.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Financial Accounting
Category: Accounting
Category: Accrual
Category: Financial Statement

Financial Accounting: Advanced Topics

Course 211 hours4.7 (1,694 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • To account for fixed assets

  • Understand accounting for liabilities

  • Evaluate shareholders’ equity section of a balance sheet, and

  • Understand preparation and information provided by cash flows statement.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Analysis
Category: Analytics
Category: Business Analytics
Category: Health Care

What you'll learn

  • Build familiarity with the set of tools and techniques used to analyze and visualize digitalized data.

  • Gain an understanding of the motivations that direct the use of various data visualization methods.

  • Understand visual approaches used to effectively communicate insights from data.

  • Gain hands-on, working knowledge of the nuanced distinction between effective and poor data presentation.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Business Analytics
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Introduction to Business Analytics with R

Course 416 hours4.6 (276 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Examine the interplay between business principles and data analytics.

  • Build a foundation for performing data analytics by installing and gaining experience using R, RStudio, and tidyverse packages.

  • Manipulate the most commonly used data types using functions.

  • Develop efficient, easy-to-read approaches for assembling and processing data for analysis.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Accounting
Category: Big Data
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Strategy
Category: Innovation

What you'll learn

  • Appreciate the unique economic, accounting, and legal characteristics of information.

  • Understand and apply methods for conceiving and generating broad-based and transformative business benefits from available information assets.

  • Identify and adapt traditional asset management principles and practices toward the improved management of information assets.

  • Measure information’s various value characteristics to help justify or prove information-related expenditures.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Accounting
Category: Big Data
Category: Data Analysis
Category: strategy
Category: Innovation

What you'll learn

  • Identify and adapt traditional asset management principles and practices toward the improved management of information assets.

  • Measure information’s various value characteristics to help justify or prove information-related expenditures.

  • Articulate the challenges, pitfalls, and paradoxes regarding information’s role as a something owned and controlled.

  • Lay out new and emerging organizational roles for treating information as an actual business asset.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cash Flow
Category: Financial Accounting
Category: Cash Flow Statement
Category: Financial Statement

Instructors

Unnati Narang
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2 Courses64,946 learners
Oktay Urcan
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
5 Courses177,527 learners
Douglas B. Laney
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4 Courses28,792 learners

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