Data Analysis for Accountants: Statistics
This course explores the various ways you can use statistics and probability to enhance your role as an accounting and finance professional. Gain an understanding of basic probability functions and testing your hypotheses using Excel.
Data Analysis for Accountants: Statistics
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About the course
As accountants, we are all familiar with Excel. However, in a dynamic and ever-changing world, we need to be smarter about how we use the tools we have at our disposal. Using statistics and probability in Excel can help you to enhance your role as an accounting and finance professional. The techniques covered in this course can help you to understand how to use statistics to summarise and properly describe the data with which you're working.
You will cover the basics of probability, so that you can understand how to predict more accurately the likelihood of certain business outcomes. You'll also touch on the various issues you might discover related to sample size and then how to test explanations or hypotheses that you come up with.
