his MOOC identifies and explores a number of challenges to the finance professional arising from the ever changing business environment. Increasingly, financial decisions must take account of strategic consequences.
The first module, Exploring Strategic Position, Choice and Action helps in doing that – setting a strategic context for planning for, monitoring and controlling projects and activities. An on-going set of challenges is found in the evolution of International Reporting Standards.
The second module focuses on some recent changes in Standards, identifying the drivers for changes, and examining evolution in controversial areas such as leasing and goodwill.
The third and final module, Corporate Governance, examines issues which are causing people to re-assess the nature, purpose and scope of corporate governance, and challenges to making governance function effectively. Key issues here are the move to include a broader range of stakeholders, the perennial challenge of agency theory issues, shareholder activism, changing Board structures, and challenges to internal control to better manage risk.
This MOOC will be right for you if you are interested in engaging with some of the challenges facing finance professionals, even if you are not one yourself. If you are thinking about returning to study this will provide a taster of academic endeavours through reading articles, critiquing ideas, and blending theory with reality
WEEK 1
Welcome to Keeping up with Change: Issues for the Finance Professional
WEEK 2
Exploring Strategic Position, Choice and Action (Part 2)
WEEK 3
International Reporting Standards (Part 1)
WEEK 4
International Reporting Standards (Part 2)
WEEK 5
Corporate Governance (Part 1)
WEEK 6
Corporate Governance (Part 2)- Making Governance Work
Dr Sarah Warnes, Teaching Fellow
School of Management, UCL
Dr Alan Parkinson
Enseigné par : Dr Alan Parkinson, Deputy Director (Education), School of Management
UCL, University of London
Mr Suman Saha
Enseigné par : Mr Suman Saha, Visiting Academic
UCL School of Management
Coursera est une entreprise numérique proposant des formation en ligne ouverte à tous fondée par les professeurs d'informatique Andrew Ng et Daphne Koller de l'université Stanford, située à Mountain View, Californie.
Ce qui la différencie le plus des autres plateformes MOOC, c'est qu'elle travaille qu'avec les meilleures universités et organisations mondiales et diffuse leurs contenus sur le web.