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Wharton Business and Financial Modeling Capstone

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Course Features

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Duration

12 hours

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Limited Access

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Accessibility

Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Intermediate

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

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Video Content

12 hours

Course Description

This Capstone will assist you in developing a business strategy using the data model you have created. To implement quantitative models in spreadsheets, you will need a Wharton Research Data Services dataset. This will allow you to identify the most promising chances for success and minimize risk. Your newly acquired decision-making skills will be used to organize a decision and present the course for action in a professional PowerPoint presentation. This presentation will include data analysis and data from quantitative models.

Wharton Research Data Services, the world's most trusted data platform and business intelligence tool, is Wharton Research Data Services. It is used by more than 30,000 clients, including academics and government officials from 33 countries. WRDS allows users to access over 200 terabytes of data in multiple disciplines such as Accounting, Banking, Economics and Finance, Statistics, Marketing, and ESG.

Course Overview

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Virtual Labs

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International Faculty

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Case Based Learning

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Post Course Interactions

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Case Studies,Instructor-Moderated Discussions

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Case Studies, Captstone Projects

Skills You Will Gain

What You Will Learn

Work with historical financial data to calculate individual returns and summary statistics on those returns.

Work with a historical data set to calculate performance data and to provide summary statistics on that data.

The Capital Asset Pricing Model, or CAPM

Course Instructors

Richard Lambert

Professor of Accounting

Professor Lambert’s research examines topics within financial and managerial accounting. In particular, he explores how information is related to the cost of capital in firms and how firms use inform...

Robert W. Holthausen

Instructor

Professor

Don Huesman

Managing Director, Wharton Online

Dr. Huesman is the Managing Director of Online Learning at the Wharton School. Previously, Don held positions at Wharton as Managing Director of the Innovation Group, supervising technology support f...

Richard Waterman

Professor of Statistics

Richard Waterman has been teaching at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania since 1993, first as a tenure track professor and subsequent to founding Analytic Business Services as an Ad...

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