The objective of this course is to provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to analyze, interpret, understand and use financial information to make informed decisions. We will discuss financial reporting from a user’s perspective, use a variety of tools to break apart financial reports into meaningful units for analysis, forecast financial statements, and value a firm. This course is intended to give you exposure to the issues facing users of financial statements. You will better understand your role in the financial reporting process if you know how the financial statements will ultimately be used. Beyond the Financials: Insights, Analysis and Valuations will require you to think critically about issues for which there can be more than one “correct” answer. Hence, your analysis and conclusions must be based on sound assumptions and well-constructed analysis and arguments.

SEO is a dynamic and growing career field that demands knowledge and skills in a variety of website optimization strategies and tactics in order to be successful. This course is designed to provide you with a solid foundation in SEO including the different elements comprising a website optimization client report, and arm you with skills you need to develop a tactical approach to SEO. Whether you have successfully completed the other courses in the Search Engine Optimization specialization or are taking just this course, this project is your chance to apply the knowledge you’ve acquired to practice important SEO tactics and optimize a site of your choice from the ground-up. You will identify optimization opportunities on a site and discover valuable tips for pitching your plan and managing your relationship with your client, you will then develop a customized SEO solution for the website you chose, and go through each of the major steps needed to execute your strategy including keyword research, competitive analysis, improving the site’s meta-data and on-page elements. Along the way, you will receive feedback through the peer review process. This community of fellow learners will provide additional input to help you refine your approach to SEO and present your findings to clients and management.

By the end of this project, you will be able to guide teams to come up with creative ideas and an action plan to support them by applying the Disney Creative Strategy to User Experience design. To do this, you will gain hands-on experience structuring a brainstorming session to attack a design challenge from three unique mindsets to arrive at the most viable and creative idea. You will do this work in the Miro online visual collaboration platform for teamwork. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.

By the end of this project, you will be able to use Canva to create a presentation that uses charts to present data. In this project we will create a three-page sales presentation that incorporates a bar graph, line graph, and pie chart to display similar data in different ways. You will learn how to create a simple, yet effective, and aesthetically pleasing sales presentation that can be used in many different areas of business. Once your presentation is complete, you will be able to use Canva design elements to add style to your presentation, and you will have the skills to share, save, and present your pages to others.

Welcome to this guided project on "Create a Departure and Personal Statements for interviews”. My name is Dianna Eckford, and I will be your instructor for this project. I currently coach a wide variety of Silicon Valley professionals who have recently been impacted from their previous employer. In this 45 minute project-based course, I’ll teach you how to create a Departure statement that will help you answer your first behavioral question recruiters and hiring managers' will ask: “Why are you looking for a new job?” I will also teach you how to create a Personal Statement that will help you answer your first behavioral question recruiters and hiring managers’ will ask: “Tell me about yourself.” By the end of this project, you will have created a Departure and Personal Statement for interviews Learning Objective 1: Gmail and Sign in Learning Objective 2: Accessing Interactive Files Learning Objective 3: Create a Departure Statement for interviews Learning Objective 4: Incorrect Departure Statements Learning Objective 5: Create a Personal Statement for interviews Learning Objective 6: Incorrect Personal Statement Learning Objective 7: Create a Personal Statement Using a Job Description Learning Objective 8: Recite a Departure and Personal Statements in 25 t0 60 seconds Learning Objective 9: Create a trusted contact network list of family, friends and business associates Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.

Al final de este proyecto, creará diseños de imágenes utilizando Canva. A lo largo de las tareas, podrá editar fotografías, utilizar tipografías, colocar elementos de diseño y contenido y finalmente, su publicación en redes sociales. Este proyecto guiado es para aquellas personas interesadas en mejorar su imagen o su emprendimiento en redes sociales a partir de una herramienta accesible como Canva. Además, vamos a comprender herramientas de diseño, utilización de plantillas, elementos y textos. Este proyecto le proporcionará la capacidad de crear posteos y storys para redes sociales utilizando Canva, que combina la flexibilidad del diseño de plantillas con la capacidad de edición del mismo. Saber diseñar imágenes para redes sociales con canva te abre una gran posibilidad de crecer profesionalmente, puede ser un acercamiento al mundo laboral del diseño ¡especialmente en campos prometedores como publicidad, marketing digital o community manager! Canva es un software y sitio web de diseño gráfico simplificado. Es accesible y utilizado del mismo modo por diseñadores como por personas que no forman parte del mundo del diseño. Sus herramientas se pueden utilizar tanto para el diseño web como para los medios de impresión y gráficos.

HI-FIVE (Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment) Training is a 12-hour online course designed by Columbia University in 2016, with sponsorship from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). The training is role-based and uses case scenarios. Also, it has additional, optional modules on other topics of interest or relevance. Although we suggest to complete the course within a month's timeframe, the course is self-paced and so you can start and finish the course at anytime during a month's time period. No additional hardware or software are required for this course. Our nation’s healthcare system is changing at a rapid pace. Transformative health care delivery programs depend heavily on health information technology to improve and coordinate care, maintain patient registries, support patient engagement, develop and sustain data infrastructure necessary for multi-payer value-based payment, and enable analytical capacities to inform decision making and streamline reporting. The accelerated pace of change from new and expanding technology will continue to be a challenge for preparing a skilled workforce so taking this training will help you to stay current in the dynamic landscape of health care. This course is one of three related courses in the HI-FIVE training program, which has topics on population health, care coordination and interoperability, value-based care, healthcare data analytics, and patient-centered care. Each of the three courses is designed from a different perspective based on various healthcare roles. This first course is from a clinical perspective, geared towards physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, clinical executives and managers, medical assistants, and other clinical support roles. However, we encourage anyone working in healthcare, health IT, public health, and population health to participate in any of the three trainings.

The purpose of this course is to provide you with an understanding of central bank policies and how such policies affect financial markets and the economy. The main aim of this course is to provide you with insights about the macroeconomic relationships between interest rates, inflation, and unemployment that allow you to assess central bank actions and appreciate how this action will affect the economy. The ability to extract relevant information from financial market and economic data about the macroeconomic environment and central bank actions is an important skill that will be useful for your decision-marking in your professional career and your personal financial choices.

By the end of this project, learners will have an understanding on how to create an Instagram Business account. According to Facebook, “with a business account, you'll be able to access insights that can help you understand who is engaging with your business on Instagram. You also have access to the Professional Dashboard, where you can track your performance, access and discover professional tools, and explore educational information curated by Instagram.” Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.

This course lays the foundation of social media marketing. You’ll learn what social media marketing entails, including the history and the different social media channels that exist. You’ll learn how to select a social media channel that fits your needs, set goals and success metrics, and determine who your target audience is. By the end of this course, you will be able to: • Understand the landscape of traditional, digital, and social media marketing • Understand how to become certified as a Digital Marketing Associate • Understand the major social media platforms, how they function, and what role they play in marketing • Create SMART goals and identify KPIs • Define your target audience and their customer journey • Choose the right social media platforms and learn how to create social media policies Whatever level of knowledge you start with, this course will help you build a solid foundation for social media marketing and gain applicable skills that will allow you to make your social media marketing efforts more successful and noticeable. Learners don't need marketing experience, but should have basic internet navigation skills and be eager to participate and connect in social media. Learners must have a Facebook account and an Instagram account helps.