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About the Course

How can you put data to work for you? Specifically, how can numbers in a spreadsheet tell us about present and past business activities, and how can we use them to forecast the future? The answer is in building quantitative models, and this course is designed to help you understand the fundamentals of this critical, foundational, business skill. Through a series of short lectures, demonstrations, and assignments, you’ll learn the key ideas and process of quantitative modeling so that you can begin to create your own models for your own business or enterprise. By the end of this course, you will have seen a variety of practical commonly used quantitative models as well as the building blocks that will allow you to start structuring your own models. These building blocks will be put to use in the other courses in this Specialization....

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AP

Jun 15, 2019

Very clear and articulate explanation of the concepts. He doesn't skip a step in the sequencing ideas, drawing comparisons and differences, and illustrating both visually and story-telling. Excellent.

SS

Nov 30, 2020

for the beginer like me i have experience in banking of 8 years still for me this fundamentals are new specially quantitative modelling.Kindly provide banking related examples in here too.

thanks

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By Paulo D F

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Nov 25, 2017

Excelent! So well exemplified concepts that is possible to understand. Should have exercises to do.

By Cesar D T H

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May 1, 2020

I would like to see exercises solved because the log model I got a little confused

Excellent course

By Tapani L

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May 6, 2017

Not enough examples and how to calculate problems. The quiz questions should have answers as well.

By keren c k t

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Feb 21, 2020

the course outline was clearly stated, explanations were basically understood with great examples

By Chris A w

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Feb 5, 2020

Very informative. Would've liked to had that correct answers to the quiz questions that I missed.

By Anupriya

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Dec 15, 2018

It was a good learning experience.Though usage of more examples would have been more beneficial .

By SAURABH A

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Nov 28, 2017

The course provides a sound background and framework on Quantitative Financial modelling process.

By DHAVAL B (

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Apr 1, 2023

good course.it provide me a vast knowknowledge of different kind of models and core information.

By Omar A R T

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Jun 30, 2022

There should be more hands-on excercises, but course content was very interesting and educating!

By Baichen Y

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Jul 26, 2020

A little easy for a statistics Bachelor, but enough general for starter in Quantitatice finance.

By Manya a

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Aug 5, 2022

The voice of the teacher is vry low. Sometimes, it is very difficult to hear what he is saying.

By Kyle W

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Jan 28, 2020

Straight and too the point. Worth the time watching the videos for the ability to put on resume

By Wonuola S

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Feb 21, 2018

Fantastic tutor and very relevant to what I was trying to understand about quantitative models.

By Jamison H

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Jan 26, 2020

Not enough explanation on the calculations, especially considering they were used in the tests

By ssekiwanda B

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Nov 24, 2019

The learning offers the best experience. the videos are clear and the content is what i needed

By Manuel G

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Jan 11, 2023

In my opinion, it was precise and easy to follow. I wouldn't say it is for begginers, though.

By Andrés B R

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Jul 18, 2020

Excelente me gusto como se explicaron los conceptos, quisiera que incluyan ejemplos en excel.

By shivani a

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May 27, 2020

Thankyou coursera for providing me chance tolearn such a useful course with excellent faculty

By katherine b

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Feb 19, 2017

Good overview. However, much of this information was even more basic than I had anticipated.

By Thu T P

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Nov 4, 2016

Great Course. However, It is a little too basic for me.

I think It best fits for someone new.

By Tejas L

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Feb 17, 2023

Great course, got to learn a lot of new things.

Hope to see more such courses in the future.

By Sriram V

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Sep 6, 2020

Very basic course - a little too easy. The questions & assignments could have been better.

By Ana B

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Feb 10, 2020

Really nice. But some practical examples would be helpful to really integrate the course.

By Jair L L

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Mar 14, 2016

Me pareció un bueno curso, sin embargo considero que deberían de otorgar casos prácticos.

By Rounak A

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Dec 26, 2022

Please show and explain the correct option in the quizzes if we choose the wrong answer.