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The Top Skills Finance Professionals Have Right Now

via LinkedIn Learning Path

Overview

Did you know? Skill sets for jobs are expected to change 41% by 2025. To help you stay up to date, we compared the top skills finance and accounting professionals had in 2015 to those they have for the same job today. Start learning the new top skills to prepare for your next career move.
  • Explore today's most important finance skills.
  • Learn the skills most relevant for your role.
  • Keep up with your peers and advance your career.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Lean Accounting Foundations
-Learn the basics of lean accounting. Find out how to help your organization maximize capacity and improve the bottom line by tracking and reporting key metrics.

Course 2: Corporate Financial Statement Analysis
-Learn the ins and outs of financial statement analysis—the examination of relationships among financial statement numbers—to gain insights into your company's past and future.

Course 3: Financial Modeling and Forecasting Financial Statements
-Learn how to create forecasted financial statements for your company, including forecasted income statements, forecasted balance sheets, and forecasted statements of cash flow.

Course 4: SAP Accounts Payable Boot Camp
-Discover how to effectively manage accounts payable (AP) tasks and transactions as a new SAP Finance user. Learn how to enter and review POs, grasp basic AP reporting, and more.

Course 5: Accounting Foundations: Understanding the GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles)
-Learn about the US GAAP, including the revenue recognition principle, and how it's foundational to the study of accounting as well as working as an accountant.

Course 6: QuickBooks Online Essential Training
-Learn everything you need to know to use QuickBooks Online, the popular bookkeeping platform for small businesses.

Course 7: SAP Accounts Receivable Boot Camp
-Boost your productivity as a new SAP Finance user by learning the fundamental business transactions and tasks in the AR functionality of the SAP suite of enterprise software.

Course 8: Finance Strategies for Business Leaders
-Learn how business leaders approach strategic financial decisions, and how leaders outside finance can support the finance team to maximize business and professional success.

Course 9: Advanced Bookkeeping Techniques
-Take your bookkeeping skills to the next level with these accounting-based strategies for managing financial entries.

Course 10: Finance Foundations: Income Taxes
-Learn how to file your US income taxes. Discover everything you need to know before filing your personal or professional tax return and get tips to help with tax planning.

Courses

Taught by

Joshua Rischin, Jim Stice, Michael Management, Denise Probert, CPA, CGMA, Hector Garcia CPA and Jason Schenker

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