Must Know Financial Concepts and Terms for IT Pros Course

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Course overview

The MUST KNOW Financial Concepts and Terms for IT professionals is a short, non-certification to augment the knowledge, competencies, and capabilities of IT professionals (and even non-IT professionals) concerning financial terms and concepts.

This course will be useful for any IT professionals who will do design decisions based on customers' requirements and constraints and understand the business and financial jargon as well.

TABLE OF CONTENT

• Lesson 1: What is Finance? • Lesson 2: Importance of Finance • Lesson 3: Types of Finance • Lesson 4: Principles of Finance • Lesson 5: What is Finance for IT • Lesson 6: What is CAPEX? • Lesson 7: What is OPEX? • Lesson 8: What is a Budget? • Lesson 9: Total Cost of Ownership • Lesson 10: What is RFI? • Lesson 11: What is RFP? • Lesson 12: What is LOI? • Lesson 13: Purchase Order • Lesson 14: Service Level Agreement • Lesson 15: SWOT Analysis • Lesson 16: Forecasting • Lesson 17: What is ROI? • Lesson 18: Return on Sales • Lesson 19: Conflict of Interest • Lesson 20: Due Diligence • Lesson 21: Cost of Capital • Lesson 22: Net Present Value (NPV) • Lesson 23: Revenue Growth • Lesson 24: Gross Margin • Lesson 25: Benefit-Cost Ratio • Lesson 26: Risk Tolerance • Lesson 27: Cash Flow • Lesson 28: Warranty and Guarantee • Lesson 29: Developing an IT Budget. • Lesson 30: Key Performance Indicator (KPI). Also, as with all our other courses, students of this course are placed in our Study Group. So, when you have any technical questions, you can ask the Instructors directly, which is one of the biggest benefits of our courses. It is not a Forum, it is a Live, Study Group with thousands of people!

What is the target audience for this course

IT professionals or even non-IT professionals

What will i learn?

The main objective of this short course is to familiarize people with financial concepts and terms, which usually pose a problem for IT professionals (IT managers, Chief Information Officers, CIOs, IT project managers, and IT engineers), and even non-IT professionals.
Additionally, after completing this course, you should be able to: • Understand financial and business concepts to improve your career
Fully understand how to apply financial concepts in IT and in other aspects of life.
Take advantage of the trainer’s extensive experiences leading projects, managing IT departments, and dealing with finance, investments, and other financial vehicles
Know the various definitions of financial concepts and terms
Know some key formulas. and Benefits from various illustrations, statistics, and examples.

Requirements

Willing to Learn

Modules

31 Lessons 08:50:29 Hours

Must Know Financial Concepts and Terms Course Introduction

1 Lessons 00:07:07 Hours

MUST KNOW Financial Concepts and Terms - Intro
Preview 00:07:07

Must Know Financial Concepts and Terms Course Videos

30 Lessons 08:43:22 Hours

What is Finance
Preview 00:19:38
Importance of Finance
00:15:31
Types of Finance
Preview 00:20:02
Principles of Finance
00:22:46
What is Finance for IT
00:18:28
What is CAPEX
Preview 00:20:39
What is OPEX
00:23:03
What is a Budget
00:22:48
Total Cost of Ownership
00:21:30
What is RFI
00:14:33
What is RFP
00:17:35
What is an LOI
00:21:40
Purchase Order
00:16:55
Service Level Agreement
00:19:25
SWOT Analysis
00:17:41
Forecasting
00:13:56
Net Present Value (NPV)
00:18:10
Revenue Growth
00:18:09
Return on Sales
00:15:37
Return on Investment (ROI)
00:15:38
Conflict of Interest
00:20:40
Due Diligence
00:14:54
Cost of Capital
00:09:06
Gross Margin
00:11:05
Benefit-Cost Ratio
00:11:52
Risk Tolerance
00:16:44
Cash Flow
00:12:55
Warranty and Guarantee
00:09:12
Developing an IT Project Budget
00:16:39
KPI - Key Performance Indicator
00:26:31

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About instructor

James Ntui

5 Courses

27 years of Industry Experience. PMP, ITIL, Agile and Scrum Instructor.