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Bundle Overview

Our Business Essentials bundle will teach you Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills, as well as business communication skills, data visualization skills, and an understanding of corporate strategy. Whether you’re an analyst, salesperson, consultant, or manager, these courses will prepare you with the essentials to take the next step in your career.

Program Overview

1 courses

1 Required Courses

40 - 50 Hours

Average completion time

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Your Road to a Business Essentials Certificate

This specialization consists of hands-on courses delivering practical, real-world data analysis and visualization skills using the latest tools and techniques

Step 1.

1 Required Courses

This comprehensive bundle consists of 17 courses to deliver practical, real-world business skills.

Fundamentals of Data Analysis in Excel
4.8 (343 Ratings)
3h 30min
3h 30min
Fundamentals of Data Analysis in Excel - Case Study
4.9 (32 Ratings)
1h 5min
1h 5min
Power Query Fundamentals
4.9 (300 Ratings)
2h 41min
2h 41min
Power Query Fundamentals Case Study
4.9 (58 Ratings)
46min
46min
Intermediate DAX & Time Intelligence
4.9 (18 Ratings)
2h 55min
2h 55min
Power BI Case Study – CFI Capital Partners
4.9 (17 Ratings)
1h 4min
1h 4min
Tableau Fundamentals
4.9 (126 Ratings)
4h 12min
4h 12min
Tableau Fundamentals Case Study
4.8 (9 Ratings)
59min
59min
Data Visualization & Dashboards - The Basics
5 (16 Ratings)
1h 16min
1h 16min
SQL Fundamentals
5 (138 Ratings)
2h 54min
2h 54min
SQL Case Study - WOWI Sales Analysis
5 (18 Ratings)
56min
56min
Regression Analysis - Fundamentals & Practical Applications
4.9 (89 Ratings)
2h 29min
2h 29min
Getting Started with Python
4 (1 Ratings)
1h 28min
1h 28min
Data Analysis With Python
5 (2 Ratings)
2h 53min
2h 53min
Portfolio Optimization with Python - Case Study
5 (8 Ratings)
38min
38min
Data Analysis in Power BI
4.8 (4 Ratings)
2h 52min
2h 52min
Visuals and Design in Power BI
2h 28min
2h 28min
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CFI’s course bundles are designed to build your skills in a wide range of tools and topics that cut across many industries.Business Essentials will help build your business acumen and prepare you for faster professional growth.

Business Essentials Learning Objectives

1
20%
Data Visualization
2
20%
Business Communication
3
17%
Microsoft Excel
4
17%
Microsoft PowerPoint
5
11%
Microsoft Word
6
9%
Strategy
7
6%
Ethics
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2
3
4
5
6
7
  1. 1.
    20%
    Data Visualization
  2. 2.
    20%
    Business Communication
  3. 3.
    17%
    Microsoft Excel
  4. 4.
    17%
    Microsoft PowerPoint
  5. 5.
    11%
    Microsoft Word
  6. 6.
    9%
    Strategy
  7. 7.
    6%
    Ethics

Microsoft Excel

  • Apply tips, tricks, shortcuts, functions, and formulas you need to become an Excel power user
  • Build a strong foundation in Excel for any industry and professional career path
  • Familiarize yourself with industry-leading Excel best practices

Microsoft Word

  • Utilize the most important functions and tools for document structure and design
  • Create clean, simple, and professional Word documents
  • Understand the design principles you should apply to different types of business documents

Microsoft PowerPoint

  • Practice using functions and tools that will make you a distinguished PowerPoint user
  • Create measures and metrics that help quantify the most important trends
  • Visualize concepts with Microsoft PowerPoint

Business Communication

  • Capture attention with proper business writing best practices
  • Deliver messages with clear, concise, and clean communication
  • Improve the chances of your recommendations being accepted

Data Visualization

  • Focus your readers attention, tell stories, and drive narratives with data
  • Implement design principles into your charts and graphs
  • Build dashboards and visualize data in Microsoft Excel and Power BI

Strategy

  • Understand strategic analysis and how it helps decision-makers identify optimal strategic alternatives
  • Perform external analysis by examining the forces affecting a company and internal analysis by understanding a company’s core competencies and competitive advantages
  • Explore tools used by decision-makers to evaluate and select optimal strategic alternatives

Ethics

  • Describe the elements of business ethics
  • Apply professional ethics and the moral principles of integrity
  • Use an ethical decision making framework

Taught by Industry Experts

Tim Vipond

Tim is the Chair of the Board of CFI Education with an extensive background in entrepreneurship, financial analysis, and investment banking.
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Lisa Dorian

Lisa Dorian is Co-Founder, and formerly Chief Risk Officer and Managing Director, of CFI. As a finance executive, she gained extensive experience in governance, risk, and compliance, as well as business process and strategy.

Victor Ho

Victor is a Senior Financial Analyst at CFI. He graduated with an honors degree in finance, has earned his FMVA®, and is pursuing his CFA designation. He has worked in both the private sector for a large natural resources producer and the public sector for government agencies.
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Kyle Peterdy

Kyle is VP, Commercial Banking & Credit with CFI. Kyle’s background is in commercial lending, including real estate transactions and construction project financing, where he spent significant time assessing physical environmental risks.

Advance your career

  • Sales Skills

    Sales Skills

    Improve your communication and presentation skills to develop better pitches to clients and win more business
  • Relationship Management Skills

    Relationship Management Skills

    Communicate more effectively with clients and be more efficient in delivering presentations and reports
  • Consulting & Advisory Skills

    Consulting & Advisory Skills

    Master spreadsheet functionality; design and deliver better presentations and written reports
  • Business Analysis Skills

    Business Analysis Skills

    Work with data more effectively in order to identify trends and actionable insights
  • People Management Skills

    People Management Skills

    Improve your understanding of business strategy and the role of ethical decision making in your organization

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What Our Students Say

Over 75% of CFI learners report improved productivity or competency within weeks.

I highly appreciated the steps and demonstration in building a either corporate or business strategy.

Aly Diallo

The course is focusing on the most important skills that are needed in real life and they open up the mind to understand the world of strategic analysis.

Daniel Munyangeri

The Monic case study demonstrated a clear and practical way to apply the theoretical concepts of strategy to a business.

Dwight Duplessis

I liked how the Instructor spoke slowly, and clearly, and articulately. Really gave time to absorb everything throughout the interaction.

Jennifer Essandoh

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