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Online Finance Classes & Certificate 

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For a limited time, when you purchase any course from Goodwin College’s Online Professional Development Course catalog, you’ll receive the online, self-paced course, Speak With Confidence for free! The link to access Speak with Confidence will be included in your course confirmation email that you receive 24-48 hours after registration.


These online certificate courses introduce non-financial managers to the essentials of finance. Through our corporate finance classes, you become knowledgeable in critical financial terminology, and learn how to calculate key financial management indicators. You also learn how to assess your organization's financial health by reviewing balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flow, and you discover how finance and accounting tools can be used to support informed decision-making within organizations.

Whether you have some finance background or seeking to gain these important skills for the first time, these courses can help you stay ahead of the curve in the latest best practices and research—and gain a promotion or new career opportunity.

These online finance courses can be taken individually or in the bundle certificate package at a discounted rate:

Certificate in Finance Essentials

Add foundational finance skills to your resume and learn how to turn insights into impactful decisions that move the business forward.

  • Length: 19 hours
  • Format: Online
  • Cost: $399

Financial Planning and Control

Learn the financial tools that managers need to be familiar with to make sound, defensible decisions—like cost benefit analysis, break even analysis, and Balanced Scorecard.

  • Length: 3 hours
  • Format: Online
  • Cost: $95

How to Read a Financial Statement

Explore the fundamentals and importance of the income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows, and how they can be used to manage a business. 

  • Length: 3 hours
  • Format: Online
  • Cost: $95

Introduction to Business Statistics

Understand the science of collecting, organizing, and analyzing data in order to make more effective decisions.

  • Length: 4 hours
  • Format: Online
  • Cost: $95

Introduction to Finance

Gain a broad perspective on the responsibilities of financial managers, roles of finance in a typical business organization and relevant financial markets of interest to financial managers.

  • Length: 3 hours
  • Format: Online
  • Cost: $95

Time Value of Money and Risk

Learn the time value of money (TVM) principles, risk and return, the benefits of diversification and the use of the portfolio concept in investing.

  • Length: 3 hours
  • Format: Online
  • Cost: $79

Understanding and Managing Budgets

Discover how budgets are used in organizational settings and how businesses are using different budgeting techniques to overcome operating challenges.

  • Length: 3 hours
  • Format: Online
  • Cost: $95

Finance Course Catalog