Excel Skills for Business Forecasting Specialization

As the global economy continues to deteriorate, corporate forecasting has become increasingly more critical. This specialty focuses on Excel Skills for Business Forecasting. This specialization includes three courses: Time Series Models, Regression Models, and Judgmental Forecasting.

Topics in this forecasting course include:

• Excel Time Series Models for Business Forecasting
• Excel Regression Models for Business Forecasting
• Judgmental Business Forecasting in Excel

In the first Time Series Models course, you will study how your company may use time-series data sets to analyze the components underlying the data and then apply the applicable model to estimate your company's needs based on these components. The following course in this specialty focuses on regression models, which allows us to construct causal models using both time-series and cross-sectional data. In causal models, they may adjust the inputs to get the desired outcome, allowing us to discover new insights and tactics. In the last course, they will look at the function of judgemental forecasting when more quantitative forecasting approaches fail to satisfy their goals and they need additional business understanding. Finally, they will look at all of these forecasting approaches together, allowing you to create predictions that will be utilized as planning inputs.

In this course, they extend your business forecasting expertise from the first two courses of their Business Forecasting Specialisation on Time Series Models and Regression Models. You will explore the role of judgmental forecasting when more quantitative forecasting methods have limitations and you need to generate further business insights. You will be exploring some structured methodologies to create judgmental business forecasts using Business Indicators, Subjective Assessment Methods, and Exploratory Methods. For each of these methods, you will look at how you can use Excel to help you in achieving these judgmental forecasts and how Excel can help you visualize your forecast findings. Being judgmental forecasting methods, they will also look at the role of biases in Business Forecasting,

This course offers:

• Earn a Certificate upon completion
• 100% Online
• Flexible Schedule
• Intermediate Level
• Approximately 4 months to complete
• Subtitles: English

Coursera rating: 4.8/5

Enroll here: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/excel-skills-for-business-forecasting