eCornell’s Finance and Business Performance certificates are designed for professionals who are not financial managers or cost accountants, but who are looking to develop and sharpen their financial acumen. The courses, developed by Cornell University faculty, connect the principles of finance, accounting, and economics with the departmental activities of the rest of the organization. When you understand these connections, your decisions, proposals, and explanations will not only be better informed, they’ll be better received.
Finance and Business Performance Certificates
eCornell’s Finance and Business Performance certificates are designed for professionals who are not financial managers or cost accountants, but who are looking to develop and sharpen their financial acumen. The courses, developed by Cornell University faculty, connect the principles of finance, accounting, and economics with the departmental activities of the rest of the organization. When you understand these connections, your decisions, proposals, and explanations will not only be better informed, they’ll be better received.
Learn how to communicate with finance personnel to interpret financial information, recognize risk and return in capital budgeting, interpret capital structuring decisions, assess the costs and benefits of business decisions, and drive operational and financial strategies for your organization.
HAMEC02
- Interpret financial information
- Apply common financial analysis frameworks in evaluating new projects
- Consider risk and return in capital budgeting
- Analyze the debt-equity ratio in capital structuring decisions
- Effectively communicate operational and financial strategies
- Mastering the Time Value of Money
- Making Capital Investment Decisions
- Risk and Return: How to Identify, Measure, and Incorporate Into Capital Budgeting Decisions
- Raising Capital: The Process, the Players, and Strategic Considerations
- Understanding Financial Statements
- Using Ratio Analysis to Evaluate Financial Performance
The nonprofit world is changing fast. As competition for donors and clients heats up, demand is increasing for financial leadership — and results — in this sector. This certificate prepares nonprofit leaders and aspiring leaders to focus on the mission and achieve financial sustainability while driving organizational strategy.
CIPAC01
- Use accounting statements and financial analysis to assess the financial strength of your organization.
- Maintain the financial health and equilibrium of an organization through appropriate use of budgeting, financing and cash-flow management.
- Obtain financial backing and community support through fundraising and alternative revenue sources.
- Build, manage, and lead organizational governance through the lifecycle of the organization.
This six-course program explores how business performance is measured and reported, along with essential concepts in cost accounting and financial reporting. Using discussions and hands-on projects, the courses equip learners with a new way to see the opportunities and challenges they face at work, and with the vocabulary and tools to address them.
LSMC06
- Create organizational strategies using the Balanced Scorecard, dashboards, and other tools
- Ensure your measures of performance are capturing the right data and that you are interpreting it correctly
- Determine if your pay-for-performance systems are really rewarding the outcomes and behaviors your organization needs. If they aren’t, find ways to modify what you’re doing to better serve your organization
- Develop methods for improving profit margins
- Use your organization’s capacity efficiently
- Identify sources of inefficiency to help lower costs