Principles of Finance, Postgraduate Certificate

About
The Principles of Finance professional graduate certificate is offered by Harvard University.
Key learning outcomes:
Enhance your knowledge of the tools and analysis methods used in business, finance, and the economy through accounting, finance, and economics.
Learn the accounting principles required for informed managerial decisions, such as cost terminology, cost behavior, cost systems, activity-based costing, budgeting, cost-volume-profit analysis, cost estimating, variance analysis, and responsibility accounting.
Develop knowledge of the agents, instruments, and institutions that make up the financial system of the modern economy, such as bonds, the stock market, derivatives, and the money market.
Develop an understanding of economic principles and methods, such as microeconomic theory, market theory, optimization, bargaining theory, externalities, and how they apply to business and the economy.
Gain expertise in a focused topic area, such as capital markets and investments, investment banking, valuation, risk management, and nonprofit financial management.
Earning the certificate
To meet the requirements for the certificate, you must:
Complete four certificate courses for graduate credit.
Earn at least a B grade in each course.
Complete the courses within three years.