Why Non-Finance Professionals Should Know Finance? Let’s say you’re an IT professional or a mechanical engineer. Do you really need to pick up finance skills? Yes, you do. Just because you’re a non-finance professional is no excuse for you not to learn finance.Every day, non-finance...

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Noticed those smartly dressed men and women on CNBC, Bloomberg and Fox Business? They are financial analysts, and among the best paid professionals in the industry. So you want to become a financial analyst too? Great! Here’s what you can expect. What Does a Financial Analyst Do? As a financial...

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Is Value Investing Still Important? At a time when the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and the NASDAQ are hitting new highs almost every day, it’s so easy to say that traditional value investing does not matter. Indeed, Goldman Sachs, the world’s biggest investment bank, actually said that “value...

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Why Millennials Require Continuous Learning? Millennials are the best educated generation ever. Most young people these days have a college degree; many have a Masters in their chosen field, some have an MBA and a few even have PhDs. An average Millennial by the time he or she is 32, will have...

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The range of technologies that a good data analyst must be familiar with is huge. It spans myriad tools, platforms, hardware and software. There are both basic and advanced data analysis and visualization tools. See below for a list of such tools. The basic tools included knowledge of...

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Financial literacy is absolutely essential for entrepreneurs and business founders. Most entrepreneurs are aware of this, but as a survey by Intuit Canada shows, there is a big gap between what entrepreneurs should know about finance and what they really know. At SKILLFIN LEARNING, we work...

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On a cold January morning, the CAT (Common Admission Test) results were declared and there were celebrations in some households, while some others were feeling dejected. Most, who scored between 90 to 98 percentile were unsure whether they should be happy or not and whether they would get...

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Have you ever seen a Financial Statement of a company and left wondering what is it all about? For professionals who don’t come from an accounting or finance background, it can be quite overwhelming as such. Basic terminologies may sound quite un-familiar. Well, we will dive into some of the...

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PowerPoint Slide Elements A slide in PowerPoint is the fundamental building block of a Presentation. A PowerPoint presentation is simply a collection of different slides arranged in a logical manner to effectively communicate a story. So then, what are the main components of building a slide?...

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In one our earlier blogs, we discussed how to create an Index/TOC sheet in an Excel workbook. Don’t recall? No worries, read it again here. Got it now. Great! Now, a lot of our readers came back and asked a rather intuitive follow-up question. They asked, “But, how do we navigate between...

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