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About the Course

This course is designed to show you how use quantitative models to transform data into better business decisions. You’ll learn both how to use models to facilitate decision-making and also how to structure decision-making for optimum results. Two of Wharton’s most acclaimed professors will show you the step-by-step processes of modeling common business and financial scenarios, so you can significantly improve your ability to structure complex problems and derive useful insights about alternatives. Once you’ve created models of existing realities, possible risks, and alternative scenarios, you can determine the best solution for your business or enterprise, using the decision-making tools and techniques you’ve learned in this course....

Top reviews

SR

Apr 22, 2017

The course material and examples are very useful. I really like the CF spreadsheet at the end of week 4 as this is very organized CF model and I can use this as reference to build my own. Thank you!

AS

Feb 6, 2020

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By Bruno E G

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May 22, 2017

really helpfull!!!!

By Jorge A

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Jul 14, 2019

Very practica!!!

By andy t

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Oct 24, 2016

THANK YOU!

By Luis E H A

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Mar 25, 2017

great

By Jameel M

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Aug 12, 2017

Week 4's lectures incorporated some excel work, but none were demonstrated by the lecturers. Would have preferred that they actually do the demonstration on the excel file, rather than explaining via the literature on the slides.

Some concepts like straight-line depreciation are introduced in week 2, but depreciation is properly explained only in week 3. I've studied accounting so this wasn't bothersome for me, but the structure of the course could be better if we are introduced to depreciation fully in Week 2.

Other than that, a solid course.

By Rahul R

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Jun 26, 2017

I think this course could have been a brilliant one if in week 4 they would have explained things in more depth and specially performing the 'what-if analysis' on excel. I feel the pace was high and could have been a bit slower including more examples. Also, there was a lot of confusion in week 2s quiz. Overall, its a good course.

By SaoMai N

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Feb 27, 2017

The information is reviewed quickly through the lectures series and it would have been helpful to have some practice scenarios before taking the quiz. It's more helpful to review different spreadsheet layouts to familiarize how variables are organized.

By Nojeem Y

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May 24, 2020

Great course! Clear explanations, even though I didn't really learnt anything new as I was familiar with the course contents. The questions under week 2 were not properly drafted, and I actually wasted my time in completing that part.

By Hasan R

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Nov 1, 2016

This course has felt irrelevant in comparison to some of the other courses in this specialisation and this has a very narrow focus which doesn't help. Not all of us are accountants.

By Drdoom a

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Apr 20, 2020

A very data intensive and brilliant piece of course. A whole new prospective and lot of data crunching. If the pace of the last module could be reduced it would be even better.

By Gregory B

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Nov 12, 2016

This course was okay. It could be improved by incorporating some concepts and principles of a previous course, "Modeling Risk and Realities".

By Tuvshinbagana M

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Apr 22, 2020

quite a simple course that is suitable for ones who want to get a simple and comprehensive understanding of project cash flow calculations.

By Bryan D

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Jan 31, 2017

Some modules are better than others. There is a strong emphasis in accounting rather than modelling, which was not what I was looking for.

By Evan H

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May 30, 2019

Some material hard to digest. I felt that some quizzes were more difficult than others and course material was hard to apply to them.

By Magdalena M

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Nov 14, 2019

I found the explanations somewhat confusing, especially in the first 2 modules, and it made it difficult to complete the quizzes.

By Wayne D E

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May 4, 2021

Very challenging the module two, most difficult in this course. Have a better appreciation for modelling principles.

By Daguo X

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May 16, 2017

Too many talking, hard to keep up with the pace.

Too many words in a slide, hard to read or extract the key points.

By Charles

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Apr 26, 2020

Les cours de la semaine 3 auraient été mieux présentés avec un tableau excel. RAS sur le reste assez basique.

By Mariam K

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Aug 16, 2021

Week 2 in particular, was poorly structured, and the wording was very difficult to understand.

By Angel H

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Mar 12, 2017

It is a great course, however some practical examples to try would benefit users

By Filippo L

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Sep 25, 2018

Some concepts especially on week two were not so easy to understand

By Zeming Y

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Jan 19, 2018

not bad, but some of the contents doesn't really teach you much

By Brad R

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Aug 24, 2019

Some incorrect answer in quiz 2.

By Patricia C

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Sep 7, 2020

Week 2 needs more explanations.

By Brendan C

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Jun 13, 2018

quiz should be unlocked.