Online Course – Google Certified Professional Internship in Project Management, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

A course to learn about developing excellent organizational leadership. Learners will be able to develop a deep understanding of business fundamentals and better manage organizational development, change, and projects.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת בניהול פרויקטים של Google

Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

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Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Understanding the basics of analyzing balance sheets and cash flow statements
  • Understanding how accrual accounting works and basic accounting principles
  • Developing strategies to facilitate organizational growth
  • Developing solutions to common management challenges
  • Exploring different project planning models and understanding when each is most effective
  • Understanding how to manage and review progress in a discriminatory project approach, alongside a flexible approach to project management

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Project Manager
  • Accountant
  • Financial Analyst
  • Business Manager
  • Management consultant
  • Organizational Growth Manager
  • Project planner
  • Operations Manager
  • Finance Manager
  • Strategic Manager

Internship – 6-part course series

In an era where small and large businesses are thriving, it is important to have a deep understanding of the foundations of a successful organization. Building, growing, and maintaining a successful business requires a broad knowledge of various fields. In this course series, focused on business value and project management, you will gain a comprehensive background in three key aspects of business – financial accounting, project management, and organizations.

Course topics

  • Understanding the basics of analyzing balance sheets and cash flow statements
  • Understanding how accrual accounting works and basic accounting principles
  • Developing strategies to facilitate organizational growth
  • Developing solutions to common management challenges
  • Exploring different project planning models and understanding when each is most effective
  • Understanding how to manage and review progress in a discriminatory project approach, alongside a flexible approach to project management

Hands-on Learning Project

A central premise of these courses is that achieving comprehensive expertise in multiple aspects of business is essential for successful growth and maintenance. Each topic will be accompanied by an in-depth application and analysis exercise.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Courses

Course 1: Financial Accounting: Fundamentals

Duration: 12 hours
Rating: 4.7 (4,420 ratings)

  • What you will learn:
    • Accounting information and how it is used by various participants in the capital market
    • Recording financial information and producing key financial statements
    • Basic accounting concepts and revenue recognition criteria
    • Accounting management of short-term assets
  • Skills you will acquire:
    • Financial Accounting
    • accounting
    • accumulation
    • Financial statements

Course 2: Financial Accounting: Advanced Topics

Duration: 11 hours
Rating: 4.7 (1,683 ratings)

  • What you will learn:
    • Maintain fixed asset accounting
    • Understand the accounting of liabilities
    • Estimate the shareholders’ equity portion of the balance sheet
    • Understand the preparation of information in a cash flow statement
  • Skills you will acquire:
    • project management
    • Risk management
    • Resource management
    • Project initiation skills
    • Stakeholder management
    • Project Management Fundamentals
    • Budget and cost management
    • Scope management

Course 3: Organization Design

Duration: 13 hours
Rating: 4.7 (1,635 ratings)

  • What you will learn:
    • Identify and explain the challenges in organizational design
    • Apply theory and principles in organizational design
    • Analyze the effectiveness of design choices in different organizations
    • Recommend organizational design to improve efficiency
  • Skills you will acquire:
    • Organizational design
    • Strategic management
    • Organizational structure
    • Organizational theories

Course 4: Organizational Management

Duration: 12 hours
Rating: 4.7 (1,399 ratings)

  • What you will learn:
    • Analyze management challenges and develop solutions
    • Using power effectively for organizational change
    • Understand the fundamentals of organizational culture
    • Navigate decision-making pitfalls and ethical challenges
    • Apply organizational management principles to challenges

Course 5: Project Initiation and Planning

Duration: 21 hours
Rating: 4.7 (116 ratings)

  • What you will learn:
    • Describe the concepts of project management
    • Develop a project management plan

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