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Personal Finance Courses

Personal finance courses can help you learn budgeting, saving strategies, investment basics, and debt management. You can build skills in financial goal setting, expense tracking, and understanding credit scores. Many courses introduce tools like budgeting apps, investment platforms, and financial calculators, showing how these skills can be applied to manage your money effectively and make informed financial decisions.


Popular Personal Finance Courses and Certifications


  • C

    Coursera

    Cells, Formulas, and Finance: Excel for Financial Analysts

    Skills you'll gain: Financial Statements, Financial Statement Analysis, Financial Modeling, Excel Macros, Financial Analysis, Pivot Tables And Charts, Data Integrity, Bookkeeping, Excel Formulas, Trend Analysis, Balance Sheet, Reconciliation, Financial Data, Data Validation, Ledgers (Accounting), Data Quality, Spreadsheet Software, Microsoft Excel, Data Cleansing, Automation

    Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

    Category: New
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    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • U

    University of Pennsylvania

    Introduction to Corporate Finance

    Skills you'll gain: Return On Investment, Capital Budgeting, Finance, Financial Forecasting, Forecasting, Cash Flow Forecasting, Financial Modeling, Financial Analysis, Financial Planning, Corporate Finance, Business Valuation, Cash Flows, Risk Analysis, Loans

    ★ 4.6 (6.4K) · Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • C

    Corporate Finance Institute

    Preparatory Certificate in Finance and Financial Markets

    Skills you'll gain: Environmental Social And Corporate Governance (ESG), Financial Statement Analysis, Annual Reports, Mergers & Acquisitions, Income Statement, Financial Statements, Financial Analysis, Business Valuation, Banking Services, Credit Risk, Loans, Capital Expenditure, Corporate Finance, Banking, Accounting, Capital Markets, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Balance Sheet, Financial Trading, Wealth Management

    ★ 4.7 (745) · Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • C

    Coursera

    Quantitative Finance & Risk Modeling

    Skills you'll gain: Financial Modeling, Descriptive Statistics, Data Literacy, Financial Forecasting, Reconciliation, Financial Analysis, A/B Testing, Portfolio Risk, Model Evaluation, Data Cleansing, Classification And Regression Tree (CART), Regression Analysis, Exploratory Data Analysis, Predictive Modeling, Data Analysis, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, R Programming, Statistical Analysis, Machine Learning

    ★ 4.2 (6) · Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

    Category: New
    New
    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • S

    SkillUp

    Safeguarding Against Financial Elder Abuse

    Skills you'll gain: Asset Protection, Loss Prevention, Fraud detection, Personal Development, Financial Controls, Finance, Financial Planning, Emotional Intelligence, Financial Acumen, Communication

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    Category: New
    New
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • C

    Corporate Finance Institute

    Introduction to Financial Planning and Wealth Management

    Skills you'll gain: Wealth Management, Financial Services, Consultative Approaches, Financial Planning, Investment Management, Compensation Management, Risk Management Framework, Asset Management, Market Intelligence, Client Services

    ★ 4.7 (46) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • C

    Corporate Finance Institute

    BI Essentials for Finance Analysts (Power BI Edition)

    Skills you'll gain: Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), Power BI, Snowflake Schema, Data Modeling, SQL, Dashboard, Microsoft Excel, Business Intelligence, Data Import/Export, Dashboard Creation, Business Reporting, Business Intelligence Software, Excel Formulas, Databases, Spreadsheet Software, Performance Reporting, Data Manipulation, Data Transformation, Financial Analysis, Data Visualization

    ★ 4.8 (386) · Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • U

    University of California, Irvine

    Fundamentals of Finance

    Skills you'll gain: Cash Flow Forecasting, Fiscal Management, Cost Control, Forecasting, Banking

    ★ 4.7 (219) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • J

    John Wiley & Sons

    Corporate Finance for Dummies

    Skills you'll gain: Financial Statement Analysis, Capital Budgeting, International Finance, Portfolio Management, Financial Analysis, Corporate Finance, Income Statement, Financial Modeling, Business Valuation, Balance Sheet, Behavioral Economics, Risk Management, Investments, Cash Flows, Mergers & Acquisitions, Forecasting

    Beginner · Course · 3 - 6 Months

    Category: New
    New
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    Preview
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • C

    Coursera

    AI-Powered Finance: Forecasting, Planning & Reporting

    Skills you'll gain: Ledgers (Accounting), Prompt Engineering, Tax Planning, Tax Management, Large Language Modeling, LLM Application, Auditing, Portfolio Risk, Portfolio Management, Tax Compliance, Generative AI, Income Tax, Cash Flow Forecasting, Fraud detection, Financial Forecasting, Financial Analysis, Responsible AI, Financial Data, Artificial Intelligence, Risk Management

    ★ 4.3 (248) · Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • D

    Duke University

    Financial Statements

    Skills you'll gain: Financial Statement Analysis, Financial Statements, Financial Analysis, Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Financial Reporting, Financial Accounting, Business Metrics, Performance Analysis, Performance Measurement, Cash Flows, Business Acumen

    ★ 4.8 (79) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
  • S

    Skillshare

    7-Day Personal Branding Challenge: Get Paid to Be You

    Skills you'll gain: Content Creation, Target Audience, Web Presence, Storytelling, Brand Strategy, Branding, Social Media Content, Social Media, Brand Marketing, Content Development and Management, Brand Awareness, Social Media Marketing, Brand Management, Digital Brand Strategy, Content Strategy, Value Propositions, Communication, Diversity and Inclusion

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    Category: Credit offered
    Credit offered
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In summary, here are 10 of our most popular personal finance courses

  • Cells, Formulas, and Finance: Excel for Financial Analysts: Coursera
  • Introduction to Corporate Finance: University of Pennsylvania
  • Preparatory Certificate in Finance and Financial Markets: Corporate Finance Institute
  • Quantitative Finance & Risk Modeling: Coursera
  • Safeguarding Against Financial Elder Abuse: SkillUp
  • Introduction to Financial Planning and Wealth Management: Corporate Finance Institute
  • BI Essentials for Finance Analysts (Power BI Edition): Corporate Finance Institute
  • Fundamentals of Finance: University of California, Irvine
  • Corporate Finance for Dummies: John Wiley & Sons
  • AI-Powered Finance: Forecasting, Planning & Reporting: Coursera

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