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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Finance for Non-Financial Professionals by University of California, Irvine

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    About the Course

    Impact your financial decisions and learn how to affect the performance of your unit's profitability and of your organization. In this course gain
    a basic understanding of finance and accounting concepts to drive your organization's growth. Upon completion of this course, you will have
    gained general financial knowledge and an in-depth understanding of the impact of your decisions outside your functional area. Content of the
    course includes selected aspects of finance from a non-financial specialist perspective. Specific topics include: financial analysis; planning,
    forecasting, and budgeting; cash flow, and strategic financing. This class will be interactive and will require the active involve...
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    Top reviews

    AC

    Dec 14, 2017

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    I've enjoyed this course. Prof. Standen gives a very basic but clear overview of the most common financial topics, wished I had this course a couple of years ago it would have made my life way easier.

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    Oct 3, 2015

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    Probably the single best course I have seen on finance and, by extension, accounting for those of us going in more or less clueless. It's actually an entertaining course and easy to keep watching.

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    Jun 8, 2020

    Best cpurse for understading finance for non-financial professionals

    Best faculty

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    Apr 30, 2018

    It’s a very clear introduction to finance course. More exercises would be welcome.

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    May 24, 2017

    Brilliant course . Really helpful for beginners . Thank you so much to professor .

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    Mar 17, 2016

    the best course l ever saw........thanks to the university and the lecturers [[[[[

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    Oct 4, 2015

    Very simple way to learn finance, I strongly recommend this course. The instructor

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    Sep 22, 2015

    Great introduction into the world of finance, highly recommended & very enjoyable!

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    By Jose C O

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    Aug 24, 2015

    Great course, clear explanations, I gained some insight about the financial world.

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    By Christina A

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    Aug 22, 2018

    Great teacher. I feel I have a better understanding after completing this course.

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    By Angel A M

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    Jan 30, 2016

    Very good , easy to understand .

    I have learnt a lot of concepts very important .

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    By Meghna P

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    Sep 16, 2015

    Its an excellent course and I would recommend it to everyone.Thank you very much.

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    By BRIAN K

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    Dec 10, 2020

    The course was very insightful , i have gained a lot through the entire course .

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    By Tsigeweini A

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    Jul 7, 2017

    An eye opening to the world of finance for personal and professional efficiency!

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    By Joseph F

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    Jan 13, 2016

    Great, engaging lecturer - Content was at the level described. Fantastic course!

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    By Nirav N

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    May 12, 2021

    Really helpful in future. This course was awesome and it was full of creativity

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    By Maria F S M

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    Oct 27, 2020

    Muy útil el curso y super importante, me gusta la manera de explicar cada tema.

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    By Diska P F

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    Aug 17, 2020

    Thank you Prof, the way you explaind the course is great and easy to understand

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    By Harshal B

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    Jul 15, 2020

    Good course for those who are not in finance but wish to learn basics about it.

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    By Aw H J

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    Dec 23, 2018

    Learnt finance so well for this that this is a laudable course by U.C. Irvine!

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    Jun 5, 2020

    Very knowledgable course, structured in an easy way containing basic topic...

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    By Ingmar C

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    Jun 11, 2016

    Very easy to understand for those just starting out in Finance. Great primer.

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    Oct 2, 2016

    Nice and Succinct! Considering others in the specialization because of this.

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    By Binny B

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    Sep 30, 2016

    very easy to learn with an awesome teacher.

    thank you sir, thank you coursera

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    By Tomislav P

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    Sep 10, 2015

    Hy,

    Great, simple and very useful course. Good basics for every enterpreneur.

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    Oct 9, 2018

    Neatly organized course content with good explanations and lot of examples.

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    By Colleen

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    Sep 6, 2016

    Learning a lot of practical information in order to work as an entrepreneur

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