Financial Analytics & Decision Science

About this course

Build practical skills in financial analytics, quantitative methods, and decision science to analyze data, optimize decisions, and evaluate financial performance. Learn statistics, probability, operational research, and finance-focused analytics through spreadsheet-based tools and real-world business examples. This specialization helps learners develop job-ready analytical capabilities for finance, investment analysis, operations, consulting, and business decision-making roles. You’ll learn how to analyze financial datasets, calculate key statistical measures, interpret probability distributions, assess portfolio risk, evaluate investment returns, and apply spreadsheet functions for practical financial analysis. You’ll also explore operational research techniques such as assignment models, transportation methods, CPM, PERT, decision trees, payoff tables, and queuing theory to solve resource allocation, scheduling, logistics, and service optimization problems. By the end of the specialization, you’ll be able to apply quantitative reasoning to financial and business problems, interpret uncertainty, optimize decisions, and support data-driven strategies using statistical, financial, and operational analysis techniques.