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Mini-Course: Financial Modeling
In this series you'll learn the fundamentals of modeling and modeling best practices in Excel. This AFP Mini-Course is complimentary for AFP Members.
This AFP Mini-Course has been approved for 0.6 CTP & FPAC recertification credits. Once you have watched all the videos in the course you will see a link below to complete the quiz. In order to claim the credit for recertification you will need to pass the quiz.
This AFP Mini-Course has been approved for 0.6 CTP & FPAC recertification credits. Once you have watched all the videos in the course you will see a link below to complete the quiz. In order to claim the credit for recertification you will need to pass the quiz.
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Bill Hu, PhD, CFA, CTP
Professor of Finance
Arkansas State University
As a recipient of the Excellence in Teaching award from the Neil Griffin College of Business at ASU, Dr. Hu keeps his classes current and relevant by reaching out to the finance industry onsite and online covering topics such as Revenue Forecasting, Financial Modeling, Integrated Financial Statements, Data Analytics and Visualization, Simulations, Big Data, and Excel. Over the years, he has trained thousands of finance professionals on these topics.
Dr. Hu's research includes pricing strategies, market microstructure, behavioral finance, etc. When writing doctoral essays in 2008, Dr. Hu applied machine learning (ML) to classify stock spam emails and disseminated the impacts of spam messages on financial markets in multiple research papers. Recently, he has started projects related to cryptocurrencies. Prior to the study of finance, Dr. Hu was a nanotechnologist and had a variety of scholarly articles and patents in the field of chemistry.
Dr. Hu's research includes pricing strategies, market microstructure, behavioral finance, etc. When writing doctoral essays in 2008, Dr. Hu applied machine learning (ML) to classify stock spam emails and disseminated the impacts of spam messages on financial markets in multiple research papers. Recently, he has started projects related to cryptocurrencies. Prior to the study of finance, Dr. Hu was a nanotechnologist and had a variety of scholarly articles and patents in the field of chemistry.
Sneak Peek
- Model building best practices including the Separation of inputs, calculations, and outputs
- Documentation in financial modeling
- Financial modeling with Excel: Setting the stage
- Modeling optimization problems with multiple constraints
- Presenting model output