This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Someone shows you a P&L and asks what you think. The honest answer, for most managers, is that they have no idea. Here are 295 tools to change that: 190 ready-to-use procedures, question lists, templates, checklists and formulas, 96 models and methods, 7 services shown on screen and 2 working files.

Open a lecture, take the template or the formula, and apply it to your own numbers.

What is going wrong right now

You run a function, you own a budget, and the financial conversation happens somewhere above you. Reports arrive, you scan for the number that concerns you and move on. KPIs are chosen because they are easy to count, and when the budget is cut, you cannot show what your function contributes.

What changes after this course

You read the statements and understand how the business makes and loses money. You set goals, build a simple budget and design KPIs that drive the right behaviour. You choose metrics for people processes and analyse them with segmentation, funnels, regression and experiments, so your proposals arrive with numbers.

What is inside: 295 tools, counted lecture by lecture

You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.

• 47 downloadable resources: lecture presentations plus 2 working files, an operating margin sheet and an employee survey results workbook
• 190 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
• 51 step-by-step procedures: operational cash flow forecasting, strategic option evaluation, total rewards budgeting, performance indicator definition
• 38 question lists and scripts: financial health review, risk assessment, measurement cost-benefit assessment, business problem diagnosis
• 35 templates and sample documents: income statement, balance sheet, HR initiative ROI calculation, performance indicator database
• 29 checklists: KPI quality, dashboard design, salary budgeting, recruitment costs
• 22 formulas and metric sets: financial health metrics, financial KPIs, HR initiative cost-benefit analysis, median salary calculation
• 15 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: risk probability and impact, opportunity analysis, SWOT analysis, salary increases
• 96 models and methods explained with examples: net present value, internal rate of return, cash conversion cycle, accrual accounting
• 7 services shown on screen: Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Google Forms, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Yahoo Finance and a people analytics dashboard

Where the tools are

The business and its environment (2 sections, 39 tools). The organisation, competition, regulation, the global economy and social trends.

Strategy, statements and business models (5 sections, 61 tools). The three statements, operating models, where money leaks, goals and budgeting.

KPIs (3 sections, 64 tools). What a KPI is, critical success factors, designing, displaying and implementing indicators.

People metrics (2 sections, 65 tools). Recruitment, brand, motivation, pay, development and retention metrics.

Analytics (3 sections, 103 tools). Segmentation, lifecycle, funnels, performance analysis, regression, forecasts and experiments.

Who is teaching

I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe. I am also a founder and lead the strategy of my own academy.

I am an economist and financier by education: I studied corporate and bank finance and accounting, and I still think the logic of the balance sheet was designed by someone who could not explain it. I have also seen companies talk about money very differently: at Preply and Wargaming employees saw growth charts without numbers, while at iDeals people were told openly how much the company earned.

How to use the course

Start with the financial statements and KPI sections, then use the metrics and analytics sections for your own function. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

• 46 lectures across 16 sections, 25 hours
• 47 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and 2 working files
• 295 tools across the lessons, including 7 services shown on screen
• Lifetime access to all materials
• Active instructor support in the Q&A section
• A Udemy Certificate of Completion

Where to start

Ask for your company's last P&L, open the financial statements lecture and find the three lines that depend on your function. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.