Online Course – Google Certified Professional Internship in Financial Management

Master the fundamentals of finance for businesses. Build financial models, use data to make decisions.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת בניהול פיננסי של Google

Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Expanding financial knowledge
  • Asking better questions
  • Problem identification
  • Making better decisions
  • Increasing influence in the organization
  • Applying financial analysis techniques
  • Cash flow management
  • Risk assessment
  • Solving practical problems such as improving liquidity
  • Evaluating investment opportunities
  • Creating comprehensive business cases
  • Practical experience in making financial decisions
  • Strategic planning

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Non-financial managers
  • Professionals looking to strengthen their financial skills
  • Business people who want to improve their business liquidity
  • Project managers interested in evaluating investment opportunities
  • Negotiators who need financial understanding
  • Business consultants who want to deepen their financial knowledge
  • Marketing managers who need to understand the financial aspects of marketing decisions
  • Operations managers who want to improve cash flow management processes

Internship – a series of 7 courses

Expand your financial knowledge to ask better questions, identify problems, make better decisions, and increase your impact within your organization. Duke Corporate Education has partnered with Professor Joe Perpetti, who has vast real-world knowledge and industry expertise, to create an online finance program for non-finance executives.

Designed for:

  • Managers or non-financial professionals
  • Interested in strengthening their financial skills

No prior experience in finance is required, but basic knowledge of business operations and strategic thinking will be useful.

Hands-on Learning Project

In this specialization, learners will apply techniques of financial analysis, cash flow management, and risk assessment in real business scenarios. This will enable them to:

  • Solve practical problems such as improving liquidity
  • Evaluate investment opportunities
  • Create comprehensive business cases

Each course includes practical cases designed to reinforce key principles by providing practical experience in financial decision-making and strategic planning.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Creating business value

Course 1

Duration: 4 hours

What you’ll learn:

  • Identify and explain the four elements of value creation and their impact on long-term business success.
  • Review and utilization of key value drivers to improve company value.
  • Analysis and evaluation of value creation strategies using practical, real-world examples.

Skills you will acquire:

  • Applying financial principles
  • Operational efficiency
  • Financial integration
  • Business strategies
  • Creating value for shareholders
  • Cash flow management

Course 2

Duration: 3 hours

What you’ll learn:

  • Assessing a company’s financial health using return on investment (ROIC) and free cash flow (FCF) metrics.
  • Review and optimization of cash conversion cycle components.
  • Implementing cash flow management techniques to improve liquidity and operational efficiency.

Skills you will acquire:

  • Financial analysis
  • Investment evaluation
  • Operational efficiency
  • Strategic decision making
  • Cash flow management

Course 3

Duration: 3 hours

What you’ll learn:

  • Analyzing income statements to assess a company’s revenues, expenses, and profitability.
  • Interpretation of balance sheets to assess financial stability and capital structure.
  • Developing comprehensive business cases that align with strategic goals and financial justifications.

Skills you will acquire:

  • The time value of money
  • Profitability analysis
  • Investment evaluation
  • Net present value
  • Financial forecast analysis

Course 4

Duration: 3 hours

What you’ll learn:

  • Identifying and mitigating various types of financial risks to protect and create value.
  • Building compelling business cases with strategic and financial justifications.
  • Applying the principle of the time value of money in financial decision-making.

Skills you will acquire:

  • Business concepts
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Key value drivers
  • Strategic decision making
  • Value proposition

Course 5

Duration: 3 hours

What you’ll learn:

  • Applying the principle of the time value of money to evaluate investment opportunities.
  • Calculation and interpretation of net present value (NPV) to assess the value creation potential of projects.
  • Performing a break-even analysis to determine the financial viability of projects.

Skills you will acquire:

  • Income statement
  • Financial statement analysis
  • Balance sheet analysis
  • Cash flow analysis
  • Financial performance assessment

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