This Guided Project 'Financial Analytics in RStudio: Identify Profit Drivers' is for Supply Chain and/or Operations Analysts. In this 2-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to determine operational & financial performance, calculate Operating Margin (OM), and plot OM waterfall chart showing OM variance drivers.
Financial Analytics in RStudio: Identify Profit Drivers
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level
Recommended experience
2 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level
Recommended experience
2 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
What you'll learn
Import operational and financial raw data, and perform exploratory analysis of operational and financial performance.
Analyse the cost components, calculate the Operating Margin (OM) by period, and determine the factors driving the OM.
Calculate OM variance to plan & variance between periods. Determine factors driving OM variance. Plot OM waterfall, and identify corrective actions.
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Welcome to "Financial Analytics in RStudio: Identify Profit Drivers". This is a project-based course which should take under 2 hours to finish. Before diving into the project, please take a look at the course objectives and structure. By the end of this project, you will learn how to determine operational & financial performance, calculate Operating Margin (OM), and plot OM waterfall chart showing OM variance drivers.
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2 readings1 assignment1 ungraded lab1 plugin
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