In a world driven by big data, it is crucial to understand how valuable information can be extracted from large volumes of data. Further, it is pivotal to utilize information to its full potential. This not only requires one to extract value from data but also to effectively communicate the information obtained. The Business Data Management and Communication Specialization is tailored to deliver a well-balanced curriculum that focuses on all three aspects - Understanding Data, Extracting Valuable Information, and Effective Communication. The courses in this Specialization will focus on advanced accounting, working with big data, communicating data and information analysis.
Business Data Management and Communication Specialization
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.
Instructors: Unnati Narang
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(70 reviews)
Intermediate level
Some related experience required
2 months at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers
What you'll learn
Skills you'll gain
- Business Valuation
- Analytics
- Asset Management
- Accounting
- Revenue Recognition
- Data Collection
- Financial Statements
- Business Analytics
- Data Storytelling
- Data Analysis
- Cash Flows
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- Data Visualization
- Financial Accounting
- Infographics
- Data Visualization Software
- Data Quality
- Data Presentation
- Accrual Accounting
- Business Analysis
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Specialization - 6 course series
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
Financial Accounting, Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Accrual Accounting, Financial Statements, Accounts Receivable, Cash Flows, Revenue Recognition, Inventory Accounting, Accounting Records, Accounting, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and Financial Reporting
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
Financial Accounting, Financial Statements, Depreciation, Equities, Cash Flows, Accounting, Financial Reporting, Fixed Asset, Financial Analysis, and Balance Sheet
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
Data Visualization Software, Data Storytelling, Data Visualization, Data Analysis, Data-Driven Decision-Making, R (Software), Data Presentation, Health Care, Business Analytics, Data Quality, Digital Marketing, Infographics, Analytics, Data Collection, and Analytical Skills
What you'll learn
Examine the interplay between business principles and data analytics.
Build a foundation in data analytics by installing and using a data analytics language, an integrated development environment (IDE), and key modules.
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
Data-Driven Decision-Making, Data Presentation, Business Analysis, Python Programming, Analytics, and Data Analysis
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
Information Management, Advanced Analytics, Big Data, Business Analysis, Data Strategy, Business Analytics, Accounting, Innovation, Business Intelligence, Return On Investment, Data Analysis, Business Valuation, Asset Management, Case Studies, and Business Economics
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
Data Quality, Information Management, Data Governance, Law, Regulation, and Compliance, Big Data, Business Metrics, Data Analysis, Information Architecture, Informatics, Management Information Systems, Intellectual Property, Organizational Structure, Information Privacy, Enterprise Architecture, Business Valuation, Innovation, Accounting, and Asset Management
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Frequently asked questions
Time to completion can vary based on your schedule, most learners are able to complete the Specialization in 3-6 months.
No background knowledge is necessary for this Specialization.
It is recommended that the courses in the Specialization be taken in the order outlined.
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