In this course, will look at industries and economic sectors that neatly define an economy. We will also introduce you to fundamental concepts involved in a company’s annual statements such as balance sheets, cash flows and its income statement, plus explore popular fundamental values used to filter vast amounts of corporate stocks. And finally, we’ll examine mutual funds and ETFs as alternatives to individual stocks for investing.
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Previous investment experience is helpful although not required.
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Try Coursera for BusinessWhat you will learn
Acquire skills and understanding related to stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and mutual funds
How to perform basic fundamental analyses
Learn how to examine investment benefits and risks
Gain hands-on know-how through practical demonstrations of certain online trading methods
Skills you will gain
- Sectors
- Mutual Funds
- Fundamental Analysis
- Stocks
- Business Cycle
Previous investment experience is helpful although not required.
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Stocks & the Business Cycle
Fundamental Analysis
Funds
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vary nice course, deliver with great explenations.
I found this course very useful to learn how to use new features in comparing stocks to sectors and indexes.
Such a great course! I'm looking forward to revisions and pursuing new courses related to this topic.
Really the fundamentals but with interesting deep-dives, too.
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