Financial Analytics with Python

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FINANCIAL ANALYTICS WITH PYTHON
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What is Financial Analytics??

• Financial analytics is a concept that provides
  different views on the business financial data.
  It helps give in-depth knowledge and take
  strategic actions against them to improve your
  business overall performance. Financial
  analytics is a subset of BI (Business
  Intelligence) ERP (Enterprise Resource
  Planning) and has an impact on every aspect of
  your business. It plays a crucial role in
  calculating your business profit. It helps you
  answer every business question related to your
  business while letting your forecast the future
  of your business.

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Financial Analytics with Python

• Python has become one of the most popular skills
  needed in the financial industry due to its
  simplicity and high readability. Python is such a
  language easy to learn (even simpler than VBA in
  Excel). It is a language coming with many matured
  toolboxes, which can help us done the job more
  quickly (maybe elegantly as well). Python is such
  a language just powerful enough for most of our
  daily tasks. It is a high level language. So it
  will abstracts away and handles many details
  automatically, leaving you to focus on what you
  want to accomplish. It is suitable for rapid and
  iterative development. It can be used both for
  prototyping and production code. Moreover Python
  is developed under an open source license making
  it free also for commercial use.

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Key Types of Financial Analytics

• Predictive sales analytics
• Client Profitability Analytics
• Product profitability analytics
• Cash-flow analytics
• Value-driven analytics
• Shareholder value analytics

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Financial Analysis Tools

• Financial Analysis Tools are one of the most
  efficient ways that can be used for ensuring good
  profit from your investments. These financial
  analysis tools are highly helpful in evaluating
  the market and investing in a way so as to
  maximize the profit from the investments made.

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Types of Financial Analysis Tools

• Balanced Scorecard
• Benchmarking
• Ratio Analysis
• Trend Analysis
• Comporative Financial Statement Analysis
• Common Size Statement Analysis or Vertical
  Analysis 

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Why is Financial Analytics important??

• Todays businesses require timely information for
  decision-making purposes
• Every company needs prudent financial planning
  and forecasting
• The diverse needs of the traditional financial
  department, and advancements in technology, all
  point to the need for financial analytics.
• Financial analytics can help shape up the
  business future goals. It can help you improve
  the decision-making strategies for your business.
• Financial analytics can help you focus on
  measuring and managing your business tangible
  assets such as cash and equipment.
• It provides an in-depth insight into the
  organizations financial status and improves the
  cash flow, profitability, and business value.

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Financial Analytics Software Programs

• SAS Business Analytics 
• SAP ERP Financial Analytics 
• MATLAB
• Oracle Financial Analytics
• NetSuite
• IBM Cognos Finance

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About Henry Harvin

• Henry Harvin is a leading career and competency
  development organization with focus on value
  creation. We are into the business of training,
  skill development, assessment centres, content
  services and higher education. Our dream is to
  establish 'Henry Harvin' in line with the vision
  of Mr.Henry Dunster 400 years ago which now
  resonates in the form of a prestigious
  educational institution respected worldwide.

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• If you are interested to know more about the
  financial analytics, join the Financial Analytics
  Certification Training with Python by Henry
  Harvin.