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Apply financial statement preparation principles and bookkeeping mechanics to conduct basic transactions.

Introduction to the Balance Sheet
Fundamental Principles of Accounting
All about Assets
Liabilities & Equity
Sew You Think You Can Knit SMARTCASE
Debits & Credits
Revenues & Expenses
Income Statements
General Journal
General Ledger
Practice Makes Perfect
Wrestling with Accounts SMARTCASE

Account for revenues and expenses, including the cost of goods sold and depreciation.

Revenue and Cash
Expenses and the Matching Concept
Realizing Revenues and Expenses Over Time
Bad Debt
Furnishing the Accounts SMARTCASE
Inventory and the Cost of Goods Sold
Manufacturing Inventory
Fixed Assets & Straight-Line Depreciation
Other Depreciation Methods
Depletion & Amortization
Golden Assets SMARTCASE

Analyze the mechanics of stocks and bonds: how they work, why companies issue them, and how they are accounted for on financial statements.

What is stock?
Common & Preferred Stock
The Stock Market
Accounting for Common Stock & Dividends
Accounting for Treasury & Preferred Stock
A Share of the Chocolate SMARTCASE
What are bonds?
Bond Values and Yields
Types of Bonds
Accounting for Bonds
A View to a Bond SMARTCASE

Analyze an entity's earnings and cash position by examining the income and cash flow statements.

Gross Profit
Operating Profit
EBITDA
Net Income
Operating Cash Flows
Investing & Financing Cash Flows
The Li'l Circus of Cash Flows SMARTCASE

Evaluate balance sheet and income statement metrics to assess a company's financial health, efficiency, and capital structure.

Assessing Liquidity
Assessing Solvency
Assessing Profitability
Efficiency Ratios
Cash Conversion Cycle
DuPont Analysis
Market Value Ratios
A Tale of Two Home Improvement Retailers SMARTCASE

Solve common business problems using accounting data to analyze the impact of decisions on a company's financials.

What is Managerial Accounting?
Job Costing
Job Costing a Service
Activity-Based Costing
Variable Costing vs. Absorption Costing
Tiny Homes, Big Costs SMARTCASE
Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
Cost-Volume-Profit Revisited
Capital Budgeting
Using Cost Information for Decision Making
Whale-Made Decisions SMARTCASE
Trains, Planes, and Dairy Cows? SMARTCASE

Examine foundational aspects of microeconomics such as supply and demand and explore how markets determine prices.

What is Microeconomics?
The Demand Curve
The Supply Curve
Law of Supply and Demand
Equilibrium Shifts
Understanding Consumer Demand
Price Elasticity of Demand
Costs of Production
Revenues, Costs, and Profits
Price Elasticity of Supply
Prickly Profits SMARTCASE

Apply principles of microeconomics as you explore issues of information, market theory, elasticities, and international trade.

Defining Economics
Asymmetric Information
Theory of Markets
The Production Possibilities Frontier
Marginal Utility and Budget Lines
Elasticity and its Applications
Deadweight Loss
International Trade at the Local Level
Presidential Economics SMARTCASE

Solve problems related to monopoly, externalities, and the environment.

Perfect Competition
The Short Run and the Long Run
Monopoly
Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition
Types of Goods
Externalities
Solutions to Externalities
Economics and the Environment
Bugged by Externalities SMARTCASE

Evaluate important economic indicators and assess why the economy fluctuates.

The Business Cycle
Economic Indicators
Calculating GDP
Building Aggregate Demand
Building Aggregate Supply
Markets
Unemployment
Inflation
Working for the BLS SMARTCASE

Explain how governments deal with fluctuations in the economy.

What is Fiscal Policy?
Fiscal Multipliers
US Federal Budget and Policy
The Money Market
Monetary Policy
Monetary Policy and the Market
Running the Fed SMARTCASE

Analyze why countries trade and how international trade affects labor, prices, exchange rates, and more.

Why Do Countries Trade?
Trade Restrictions
Openness in Goods and Financial Markets
Labor in International Markets
Prices in International Markets
Floating and Fixed Exchange Rate Systems
Economic Development in the World
Trade Wars SMARTCASE

Summarize and visualize data sets with descriptive statistics, boxplots, and histograms.

Measuring Central Tendency: Mean, Median, and Mode
Standard Deviation
Five Number Summary
Boxplots
The Boxplot Dietitian SMARTCASE
Frequency Distributions
Histograms
Frequently Not Dieting SMARTCASE

Identify the symbols, rules, and laws of probability and master their application.

Introduction to Probability
Theoretical and Experimental Probabilities
Venn Diagrams
Basic Probability Rules
The Addition Rule
The Multiplication Rule for Independent Events
Conditional Probabilities and the Multiplication Rule
Bayes' Rule
The Law of Total Probability
Choosing the Right Probability Rule
A Treasure Trove of Probability Practice SMARTCASE

Develop probability prowess with distribution principles and commonly encountered probability distributions.

Random Variables
Probability Distributions
Shapes and Calculations
Expected Value and Its Associates
Unicycle of Fortune SMARTCASE
Probability Distribution Families
Binomial Distributions
Poisson Distributions
Introduction to Normal Distributions
The Empirical Rule
Z-Scores and the Standard Normal Distribution
Surviving the Probability Distribution-pocalypse SMARTCASE

Measure relationships between two data sets, and compare correlation and causation.

Introduction to Correlation
Causation
Observational Studies
Experiments
Scatter Plots
Correlation Coefficient
Covariance
Super Statistics SMARTCASE

Quantify the strength and discover the nature of relationships between independent and dependent variables.

Introduction to Regression Analysis
Simple Linear Regression
Linear Regression Equations
Residual and Outlier Analysis
Multiple Regression and Data Transformation
Dummy Variables and Logistic Regression
Variable Selection
Interpolation and Extrapolation
Time Series Analysis
Linear Regression and Finance
Le Gastromagnifique SMARTCASE

Determine the proper methods for gathering the data behind a data-driven decision and identify common data-gathering errors to avoid.

Statistical Sampling
Random Sampling Techniques I
Random Sampling Techniques II
Non-random Sampling
Conducting a Survey
What's Your Flavor? SMARTCASE

Test hypotheses and develop conclusions from data to make solid decisions using statistical methods.

Confidence Intervals: The Basics
Confidence Intervals for Means
Confidence Intervals for Proportions
An Election in Wardencliff SMARTCASE
Setting Up the Hypotheses
Setting the Criteria for a Decision
Computing a Test Statistic
Tessel Makes a Decision SMARTCASE
p-Values
Two-Tailed Tests for Means
Interpreting and Reporting Results
Bringing Proportions into Play
Hypothesis Testing and Confidence Intervals
A Lazy Morning with the Warbler SMARTCASE

Design, maintain, and improve processes for producing and delivering quality goods and services to customers.

Introduction to Operations Management
The Process Flow Diagram
Bottlenecks, Wait Times, and Process Capacity
Process Structures: Job Shops to Assembly Line Flows
Tools for Managing Projects
Inventory Costs and Benefits
Inventory Management
Optimizing Labor Resources
The Problem of Variability
Analyzing Wait Times
Reducing Wait Times: Queue System Design
Reducing Wait Times: Managing Customer Behavior
Doling out Donuts Double Time SMARTCASE

Plan and execute successful projects in any field of business.

What is a Project?
Starting Project Initiation
Completing Project Initiation
Planning
Prep Your Project SMARTCASE
Creating the Project Schedule
Estimating Task Duration and Deadlines
Time Constraints and the Critical Path
Scheduling with Resource Constraints
Managing Risks
Managing Costs and Closing a Project
Polish Off Your Project SMARTCASE

Examine how to make groups and teams function effectively by dissecting what they are and how they work.

The Life Cycle of Groups
Group Roles and Norms
Threats to Group Effectiveness
Components and Characteristics of Teams
Types of Teams
Teams in Action
Hitting the Right Note with Groups and Teams SMARTCASE

Evaluate the structure and culture of organizations by learning what they consist of and how they change.

Organizational Structure
Contemporary Organizational Structures
Preparing for Organizational Change
Structural Forces in Organizations
Managing Organizational Change
High Steaks SMARTCASE
Organizational Culture Basics
Models of Organizational Culture
Creating and Maintaining Organizational Culture
A Tale of Two Yogis SMARTCASE

Assume the role of an effective leader by interpreting what characterizes leadership and how it can be fostered.

Leadership and Management
Leadership and Power
Culture and Leadership
The Trait Approach to Leadership
The Situational Approach to Leadership
Fiedler's Contingency Theory
Transformational and Transactional Leadership
Leader-Member Exchange Theory
Servant Leadership

Analyze the characteristics of an effective company philosophy and create a company vision.

The Mission Statement
The Vision Statement
Developing Your Organization’s Values
The Spin Doctors are In SMARTCASE

Survey the systems and relationships through which an organization is controlled and directed.

The Purpose of Corporate Governance
The Agency Problem
Self-Interested Behaviors
Gadgets and Gizmos Aplenty SMARTCASE
Structure of the Board of Directors
Selection, Compensation, and Evaluation of the Board
Procedures and Duties of the Board
CEO Compensation and Succession
Checks on Corporate Governance
International Corporate Governance
Whoosits and Whatsits Galore SMARTCASE

Apply concepts in business ethics to internal and external corporate decision-making.

Introducing Business Ethics
What Do Ethical Companies Look Like?
What Do Unethical Companies Look Like?
Theories of Ethical Decision-Making
What's Involved in Making an Ethical Decision?
The Ethical Wolf of Wall Street SMARTCASE
Corporate Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Theory
Responsibilities Toward Stakeholders
Ethics Across Cultures
The CEO of Ethical Damage Control SMARTCASE

Build essential strategies and tactics for successful negotiation.

Types of Negotiation
Understanding Your Position
Negotiating with Agents
Handling Challenging Opponents
Tactics at the Table
Focal Points, Framing, and Fairness
Emotions and Irrational Behavior
Gender, Culture, and Negotiation
The House Always Wins SMARTCASE

Design and create a marketing strategy, from the situation analysis to the value proposition, and everything in between.

Marketing Basics
Situation Analysis
Segmentation and Targeting
The Positioning Statement
Value Propositions
The Four P's
Spacious Sounds SMARTCASE

Organize the tools needed to effectively bring a product to market.

The Purchase Funnel
B2B Marketing
Creating Your Product
Place: Distributing Your Product
Promotion: Spreading the Word About Your Product
Pricing Your Product
Brand Marketing
Hawking Your Handicrafts SMARTCASE

Design and leverage a strong brand using practical tips for bringing your brand to life.

The Value of a Brand
What Exactly Is a Brand?
Brand Positioning: Defining the Competition
Defining the Brand Vision
Brand Naming
Brand Marks
Brand Messaging
Measuring Brand Performance
Building a Brand for a Brainy Beanie SMARTCASE

Apply the principles of A/B testing to identify potential improvements to digital marketing campaigns.

Introduction to A/B Testing
Designing and Conducting an A/B Test
Validity Threats
A Taste for Testing SMARTCASE

Identify the tools and techniques needed to run an effective digital marketing campaign and compare the benefits and challenges of each digital channel.

The Many Faces of Digital Marketing
The Buyer's Journey
Beyond Sales: Marketing Goals
Naming Your Buyers
Key Tools for Digital Marketing
Social Media I: What to Post
Social Media II: Where and When to Post
Paid Digital Advertising I: Pricing Models and Best Practices
Paid Digital Advertising II: Targeting and Retargeting
Display Advertising
Search Marketing
Email Marketing I: ESPs and Email Lists
Email Marketing II: Components and Analytics
Digital Marketing Metrics
Let's Get Digital SMARTCASE

Evaluate the methods and principles for pricing goods and services and determine how pricing relates to value.

Introduction to Pricing and Value Creation
Setting Prices: Main Approaches
The Relationship Between Value and Price
Measuring Psychological Value
Pricing Strategies
Determining the Right Price Level
Communicating Value
Biases in Consumer Perceptions of Price and Value
Designing Product Offers
Setting Multiple Prices
Collecting Survey Data to Estimate Market Demand
Analyzing Survey Data to Estimate Market Demand
Feeding Fido and Fluffy from Afar SMARTCASE

Maximize profit by establishing varying price levels for different consumer segments.

Price Segmentation: Benefits and Challenges
Price Fences
Versioning
Bundling
Price Promotions
Markdown Management
Segmentation is for the Birds SMARTCASE

Discover pricing strategies and practices used online to maximize revenue given extreme competition and price transparency.

E-Commerce Pricing: Challenges and Opportunities
Yield Management: The Airline Industry Model (Part I)
Yield Management: The Airline Industry Model (Part II)
Yield Management: Other Use Cases
Maintaining Customer Loyalty Under Yield Management
Gathering More Nuts SMARTCASE
Online Auction Pricing
Subscription Pricing
Competitive Pricing in E-Commerce
Packaged Nuts SMARTCASE

Leverage the core principles of strategic analysis to evaluate a business's competitors, industry, and resources.

What is Strategy?
Porter's Five Forces Model
Applying Porter's Five Forces: Threats and Rivalry
Applying Porter's Five Forces: Customers and Suppliers
PESTEL Analysis
The Resource-Based View
Cost Leadership
Differentiation and Focus Strategies
Fight or Flight! SMARTCASE

Examine how firms use corporate-level strategy to gain competitive advantage in multiple businesses.

Value Chain Analysis
Vertical Integration
What is Diversification?
The Value of Diversification
Strategic Alliances
Mergers and Acquisitions
Make Corporate-Level Strategy Great Again SMARTCASE

Determine how companies gain competitive advantage when expanding internationally.

The Global Business Environment
CAGE Distance Framework
AAA Framework of Global Strategy
Entry Mode Strategies: Exporting
Entry Mode Strategies: Licensing
Entry Mode Strategies: Strategic Alliances
Entry Mode Strategies: Foreign Direct Investment
Ni Hui Shuo Fashion Ma? SMARTCASE

Create, implement, and track a successful business strategy using the Balanced Scorecard method.

The Balanced Scorecard
Strategy Map
Key Performance Indicators and Targets
Strategic Initiatives
Retail Retool SMARTCASE

Develop mathematical ability around the time value of money and master foundational financial terminology.

The Time Value of Money
The Timeline
Moving Money Through Time: Compounding
Moving Money Through Time: Discounting
Moving Money Forward Over Multiple Years
Moving Money Backward Over Multiple Years
Moving Cash Flows Through Time
Net Present Value (NPV)
Fair Trade Finance SMARTCASE

Analyze a company's balance between debt and equity as it assesses the profitability of proposed projects.

Cost of Debt
Cost of Equity
Capital Structure & WACC
Capital Construction SMARTCASE

Under certain assumptions, the capital structure of a company is irrelevant. Removing assumptions reveals an optimal balance between debt and equity.

What If There Were No Taxes?
Return of the Taxes
Bankruptcy Is Not Free
Find the Optimal Capital Structure SMARTCASE

Prioritize what projects to invest in based on projected cash flows and constraints on capital.

The Goals of a Firm
The Net Present Value Rule
Incremental Cash Flows
One Metric to Rule Them All
Accounting for Uncertainty
The Fine Art of Capital Budgeting SMARTCASE

Maximize return for a given level of risk according to modern portfolio theory.

Calculating Returns
Introduction to Risk
Reducing Investment Risk with Diversification
Limits of Diversification
Creating Mean-Variance Efficient Portfolios
The Capital Market Line
A Random Walk in an Efficient Market
Challenges to the Efficient Market Hypothesis
Investing with Isra SMARTCASE

Understand how and why firms pursue vertical integration as a growth strategy.

Transaction and Administrative Costs
Finding Value in Vertical Integration
Choosing the Right Vertical Relationship
You're Steel the One SMARTCASE

Explore the fundamental concepts and processes of mergers and acquisitions, from what an acquisition is to preventing hostile takeovers.

Introduction to Mergers and Acquisitions
Historical Trends in M&A Performance
The Stakeholders in M&A
The Cost of Acquisition
Types of Takeovers
Takeover Strategies
Pre-offer Defenses
Post-Offer Defenses
The Trials of Takeoveria SMARTCASE

Put M&A theory into practice: walk through the process of carrying out a merger or acquisition, from choosing a target to closing the deal.

Developing an Acquisition Plan
Target Selection
The Negotiation Phase
Financing M&As
The Definitive Purchase Agreement
Closing the Deal
Post-Merger Integration
Flower Power SMARTCASE

Discover how firms use cooperative strategy to realize shared objectives by forming and managing alliances.

To Ally or Acquire?
Types of Alliances
Choosing an Alliance Partner
Alliance Design
Managing Strategic Alliances
How to Win Allies and Influence Smartly SMARTCASE

Forecast a company's future free cash flows and learn how to value a company by discounting those cash flows back to the present.

Discounted Free Cash Flow Valuation
Free Cash Flow
Calculating Free Cash Flow
Forecasting Free Cash Flow
Free Cash Flow Valuation
How much is that cat in the catalog? SMARTCASE

Value a company using the market multiples and liquidation methods and determine how to calculate a company’s enterprise and equity values.

Enterprise & Equity Values
Free Cash Flow to Equity Valuation
Dividend Discount Model, Part I
Dividend Discount Model, Part II
Multiples Valuation
Liquidation Value
The Big Interview SMARTCASE

Learn how different types of derivatives are used to hedge risk and to speculate on future prices.

Overview of Derivatives
Forwards
Futures
Swaps
Options
Credit Default Swaps
What's in a Name? SMARTCASE

Evaluate the efficacy and impact of variables to make the right choices in complicated scenarios.

Working with Small Samples
t-Distributions: The Basics
t-Distributions: Confidence Intervals
t-Distributions: Hypothesis Testing
Small Sample Speed Round SMARTCASE
Test Results vs. States of Nature
Type I and II Errors
Balancing Error Risks
To Yoga Oar Not To Yoga SMARTCASE

Analyze differences across populations using two-sample hypothesis tests and ANOVA.

Hypothesis Testing: Two Population Means
Hypothesis Testing: Paired Sample Means
Hypothesis Testing: Two Population Proportions
ANOVA: The Basics
ANOVA: Hypothesis Testing and the F-Statistic
Multi-Sample Mania SMARTCASE

Draw population-level conclusions about categorical variables with chi-square tests.

Contingency Tables
Chi-Square Tests, Part I
Chi-Square Tests, Part II
Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Tests
Tis the Sneezin' SMARTCASE

Learn the basics of how blockchains work and explore the most well-known implementation of blockchain: Bitcoin.

A Problem of Trust
Blockchain Basics
Consensus Mechanisms
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin Mining
Breaking Bitcoin?
Blockchain: The Early Years SMARTCASE

Delve into the next generation of blockchain technology and examine how smart contracts and decentralized applications take basic blockchain transactions to the next level.

Smart Contracts
An Application on the Blockchain
Decentralized Apps
Dapp Architecture
Decentralized Dapp Front Ends
Ethereum
Dapp Economics
Ethereum Dapps
Blockchain: A Smart Investment? SMARTCASE

Blockchain has the potential to revolutionize many industries, but it also has major limitations. Examine the issues and explore alternate blockchain protocols that address some of those limitations.

Blockchain Applications
More Blockchain Applications
Blockchain Disadvantages
Blockchain Scalability
Scalable Blockchain Protocols
Permissioned Blockchains
Stablecoins
Libra Case Study
Blockchain: The Decentralized Future? SMARTCASE

Analyze the dynamics of business formation law, and develop an understanding of the business type that best suits your business goals.

Considerations When Forming a Business
Sole Traders
General Partnerships
Limited Liability Partnerships
Companies
A Match Made in Business Heaven SMARTCASE

Survey the fundamentals of English employment law and determine the best employment practices for employees.

Understanding Employment Status
Recruitment of Employees
Employment Contracts
Basic Labor Standards
Employee Protections and Benefits
Terminating Employment
Out of this World Employment Planning SMARTCASE

Evaluate the fundamentals of intellectual property (IP) protections and distinguish between different types of IP and their applicable laws.

Introduction to Intellectual Property
Patents
Trade Marks
Copyright
Registered Designs
Trade Secrets & Confidential Information
A Cog in the Wheels of IP Justice SMARTCASE

Explore how startup entrepreneurs use the customer discovery process to build and refine their business models, from assessing market opportunities to developing an MVP.

Startup Essentials
Assessing Market Opportunities
Business Model Canvas
Validating the Problem
Testing the Solution with an MVP
That's-a Spicy Startup! SMARTCASE

Measure customer demand by developing, testing, and optimizing a sales strategy.

Validating Your Sales Strategies
Choosing Your Team
Understanding the Sales Environment
Preparing for Test-selling
Test-Selling
Pivot or Proceed?
All's Well That Ends Well SMARTCASE

Navigate the venture capital funding process, from nailing an elevator pitch to closing a funding round.

Introduction to Venture Capital
The Funding Process
How VC Firms Work
Fund Life Cycle
Fundraising Materials
Landing a Deal
Pool Your Money SMARTCASE

Dive into the components that make up a term sheet, from valuation to exit events.

Valuations and Equity Shares
Preferred Stock Rights
Dilution
The Cap Table
Governance and Protective Provisions
Managing Exit Events
Negotiating the Term Sheet
Convertible Debt
In the Mood for Funding SMARTCASE

Introduce permutations and combinations into your probability arsenal so you can tackle even more complicated probability questions.

Counting with Permutations
Counting with Combinations
Counting, Combinatorics, and Probability
Advanced Probability with Combinatorics
Additional Topics in Combinatorics
A Day in the Life of a SSSPACE CCCADET SMARTCASE

Discover the tools in Excel that will help you describe and summarize data, as well as enhance your understanding of probability topics.

Getting Oriented in Excel
Describing the Center of Data
Describing the Spread of Data
Grouping and Visualizing Data
Histograms and the Analysis ToolPak
Probability Fundamentals in Excel
Probability Distributions in Excel
The Binomial Distribution in Excel
The Poisson Distribution in Excel
Exploring the Normal Distribution
Counting and Combinatorics in Excel
Spreadsheets and Sabbaticals SMARTCASE

Learn how to visualize and analyze relationships between many kinds of variables using tools in Excel.

Scatterplots and Trendlines
Two-Variable Functions
The Analysis ToolPak: Regression and Residual Analysis
Multiple Regression in Excel
Data Manipulation: Transformation and Dummy Variables
Time-Series Analysis in Excel
Le Gastromagnifique Goes to Canada SMARTCASE

Learn how to create and use pivot tables to make Excel spreadsheets more informative.

How to Create Pivot Tables
Basic Formatting Techniques
What to Do When Data Changes
Grouping and Filtering with Pivot Tables
Multi-Column Pivot Tables
Diamonds Are a Pivot Table's Best Friend SMARTCASE

Why do so many companies struggle to make important decisions quickly and well? In this course, you’ll combat cognitive bias and bypass bureaucracy to streamline your organization’s decision-making process.

The Decision-Making Process
Cognitive Bias
Principles of Analysis
Major Strategic Decisions
Let's Make Some Dough! SMARTCASE

Inspire your organization to set and achieve ambitious goals by becoming an effective strategic leader. Learn to manage the myriad duties of strategic leadership by allocating your time wisely.

Defining Strategic Leadership
Qualities of Effective Strategic Leaders
Leading People
Leading Strategic Thinking
Operations & Oversight
Becoming a More Strategic Leader
All in a Day's Work SMARTCASE

What is power, and how do you get it? In this course, you’ll learn the different types and sources of power, as well as how politics can be used to gain and keep power in a business setting.

Power & Politics
Gaining Influence Without Authority
Positional Politics
Network Politics
Developmental Networks
Group Dynamics
Conflict Resolution
Game of Cones SMARTCASE

Businesses must constantly adapt to keep up in the modern world—but how do you lead change effectively? Learn to build change from the bottom up and overcome resistance in this course.