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Executive Finance
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Blair Cook and Jennifer Nicholson, together known as Executive Finance, are both certified public accountants (CPAs) with over 25 years' experience. Besides working as accounting professionals and boardroom executives in a wide variety of sectors, they have also taught university-level accounting courses and professional programmes. With over a decade of experience in online earning, they came together to form Executive Finance in 2016.

Executive Finance distinguishes themselves in online education by being 'academic practitioners': they practice what they teach in their own workplaces and so can offer students an education with a real-time, real-world merit. Their courses aim to add value to accounting employees working today.
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Transform, Grow and Innovate in Finance
3-4 hrs 10,448 learners
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You Will Learn How To

Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

  • Describe how to assess personal and finance team strength and weaknesses
  • Identify improvement opportunities for financial leadership and team development
  • Develop an approach for process and system improvement opportunities
  • Explain how to deliver and execute a plan for finance transformation
  • Describe how to use SWOT analysis to help strategise
  • Explain how to assess your business using the maturity model
  • Describe the financial close process and how to improve it
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Transform, Grow and Innovate in Finance
3-4 hrs
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Six Traits of Executive You
3-4 hrs 4,550 learners
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You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Define 'executive presence' and explain why it is important
  • Outline the importance of communication skills in the workplace
  • List the benefits of 'power posing'
  • Outline the difference between management, leadership and social power
  • Compare the 'leadership effect' and the 'CEO effect'
  • Outline the five-step approach to developing a personal brand
  • Describe how to build and maintain strong relationships at work and home
  • Define 'deliberate practice' and 'nudging'
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Six Traits of Executive You
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Ethical Intelligence in Business
3-4 hrs 8,037 learners
By Executive Finance
You Will Learn How To

After completing this course you will be able to:

  • Outline the use of the Edelman Trust Barometer
  • Describe mirror neurons and the importance of recognizing our judgement traps
  • Define rationalizations
  • Discuss the IWK Health Centre scandal and the importance of ethics in business
  • Compare and contrast the principle-driven approach and the prescriptive approach
  • Outline a case study that exemplifies approaches to ethical issues
  • Discuss the most common ways ethical lapses trickle into our judgement
  • Describe the powerful nature of storytelling
  • Work through a framework to resolve ethical issues
  • List the benefits of ethical intelligence
  • Outline how ethical intelligence can be embedded in corporate culture
  • Describe corporate social responsibility
  • Illustrate how Ethical lapses can occur in the likes of Wells Fargo
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Ethics
Ethical Intelligence in Business
3-4 hrs
8037 enrolled
Create Powerful Presentations with PowerPoint
1.5-3 hrs 27,064 learners
By Executive Finance
You Will Learn How To

After completing this course you will be able to:

  • List the most important principles of presenting
  • Identify how to work with mind maps
  • Outline how to avoid cognitive backlog
  • Recognize how to create an opening that develops rapport
  • Identify the 6 key qualities to make an idea stick in the audience's mind
  • Define the modality and redundancy principles
  • Identify how to create powerful powerpoint presentations
  • Recognize how to incorporate the multimedia principle to create engaging presentations
  • Discuss the use of charts to summarize numeric data
  • Recognize how to work with videos and graphics to create appealing content
  • Identify when to use transitions and animations to enhance presentations
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PowerPoint
Create Powerful Presentations with PowerPoint
1.5-3 hrs
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An Introduction to Financial Intelligence
4-5 hrs 7,192 learners
By Executive Finance
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Discuss the roles of shareholders and directors within a company
  • Explain financial statements to evaluate performance
  • Compute return ratios
  • Outline a financial strategy
  • Outline the budgeting process
  • Define forecasting and zero-factor budgeting
  • Discuss finance and forecasting future cash flow
  • Analyze variance and cost analysis statements to determine underlying performance issues
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An Introduction to Financial Intelligence
4-5 hrs
7192 enrolled
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This course is very useful for my career pathway for it reopen my knowledge and understanding about Compare the 'leadership effect' and the 'CEO effect'; and also utline the five-step approach to developing a personal brand.
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Great! I love it. The 5 modules are very interesting and informative. The course changes my ethical thinking in a business space
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