Financial Forecasting and Reporting
By External Provider
About this course
This course discusses how public projects are evaluated using cost-benefit analysis. Learners discover how interest rates and prices for stocks and bonds are determined. Techniques are presented on how to create departmental budgets for engineering cost centers and pro forma statements for profit centers. Learners then work with corporate financial statements to assess a company’s financial health, including recent measures of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG). This course can be taken for academic credit as part of CU Boulder’s Master of Engineering in Engineering Management (ME-EM) degree offered on the Coursera platform. The ME-EM is designed to help engineers, scientists, and technical professionals move into leadership and management roles in the engineering and technical sectors. With performance-based admissions and no application process, the ME-EM is ideal for individuals with a broad range of undergraduate education and/or professional experience. Learn more about the ME-EM program at https://www.coursera.org/degrees/me-engineering-management-boulder.
What you will learn
- Read an income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows and calculate relevant ratios to determine the financial health of a company.
- Learn to read and prepare an operating and financial budget, resulting in a pro forma financial statement.
- Apply scenario and sensitivity analysis to a project’s cash flows.
- Learn to read and interpret a company’s Corporate Sustainability Report.