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EDUCBA
Comparable Company Valuation – Core Concepts & Methods
This course equips learners with the knowledge and analytical skills to interpret, calculate, evaluate, and apply key concepts in comparable company valuation (COMPS). Beginning with the foundations of enterprise value and extending through debt and equity adjustments, share price insights, and balance sheet interpretation, participants will analyze profitability metrics, compute growth measures, assess sector-specific performance, and implement advanced valuation techniques such as LTM calculations, calendarization, and currency management. Across four structured modules, learners will apply industry-relevant methodologies to real-world financial data, compare operational and profitability measures across companies, and integrate adjustments for accurate, period-aligned, and currency-adjusted analysis. By the end of the course, participants will be able to evaluate company performance within a comparable framework and construct consistent, reliable valuation models for informed decision-making.
The University of Edinburgh
Intellectual Humility: Practice
We live in a polarised world where all too often people talk past each other. But do you know when to believe what others say? For example, how quick should we be to accept something that someone else tells us is true, and what should we be looking out for when assessing a person's trustworthiness? Meanwhile, what should we do when we encounter disagreements with people who seem to be our equals? How and when should we adjust our beliefs, and how does the appropriate response vary depending on the evidence? These challenges may be especially important in the arena of religious disagreements. How should we weigh the evidence for and against various theistic and atheistic stances? Experts in psychology, philosophy, theology and education are conducting exciting new research on these questions, and the results have important, real-world applications. Faced with difficult questions people often tend to dismiss and marginalize dissent. Political and moral disagreements can be incredibly polarizing, and sometimes even dangerous. And whether it’s Christian fundamentalism, Islamic extremism, or militant atheism, religious dialogue remains tinted by arrogance, dogma, and ignorance. The world needs more people who are sensitive to reasons both for and against their beliefs, and are willing to consider the possibility that their political, religious and moral beliefs might be mistaken. The world needs more intellectual humility. In this course. we will examine the following major questions about applied issues surrounding intellectual humility: • Should you believe what people say? • How should we handle disagreement? • What is the role of evidence in resolving religious disagreements? All lectures are delivered by leading specialists, and the course is organised around a number of interesting readings and practical assignments which will help you address issues related to humility in your daily life. This course can be taken as a part of a series which explores the theory, the science and the applied issues surrounding intellectual humility. Before, we considered how to define and measure intellectual humility, what intellectual virtue is, whether we are born or can become humble, and what cognition and emotions can tell us about intellectual humility. If you are interested, complete all three courses to gain a broader understanding of this fascinating topic. Look for: • Intellectual Humility: Theory - https://www.coursera.org/learn/intellectual-humility-theory • Intellectual Humility: Science - https://www.coursera.org/learn/intellectual-humility-science Check out our trailer to hear more - https://youtu.be/x_CWjrYxKZU. Learners can apply for Financial Aid directly with Coursera to assist with the cost of accessing the full course and gaining a certificate for successfully completing the course.
Tally Education and Distribution Services Private Limited
Basics of Statutory Compliance and Taxation
This course is for those interested in starting a career in bookkeeping. The course builds on the knowledge and skills covered in the first two courses in this professional certificate to dive deeper into concepts related to taxation. You will apply those concepts in scenarios using the TallyPrime software.The course includes several real-life business scenarios, charts, images, observations, solved illustrations, and practice scenarios on TallyPrime. By the end of the course, you will be able to: - Apply the concept of goods and services tax (GST) - Configure tax deducted as source (TDS) - Manage business data - Manage data across companies No prior experience in bookkeeping is required. To be successful in this course, you should have completed the first two courses in this program, Fundamentals of Accounting and Reporting (course 1) and Principles of Accounts Payable and Receivable Management (course 2), or have the equivalent skills and knowledge.
EDUCBA
Master Unity: Design & Develop a Gem Collector Game
By the end of this course, learners will be able to analyze game concepts, design interactive mechanics, implement scoring systems, and develop a fully functional Gem Collector game in Unity. Starting with the basics of environment setup and animation, participants will gradually advance into scripting raycasting, claw mechanics, and collision detection. Learners will then refine gameplay by creating and editing a score manager, managing object spawning, and integrating complete game logic for dynamic and interactive play. This course is ideal for aspiring game developers who want to build practical Unity skills through hands-on projects. Unlike generic tutorials, this course emphasizes step-by-step implementation where each concept builds directly into the game you create. The Gem Collector project offers the perfect balance between simplicity and depth—allowing learners to strengthen their Unity fundamentals while delivering a playable and polished result. Whether you’re new to Unity or looking to expand your portfolio, this course ensures you gain the confidence, coding skills, and project experience needed to create engaging games from scratch.
IBM
Get Started with Cloud Native, DevOps, Agile, and NoSQL
Would you like to explore the complete process of developing cloud-native applications from inception to implementation? This course covers essential cloud concepts such as Cloud Native Applications and CNCF and their impact on cloud application developers. You'll delve into specific tools and techniques for building cloud-native apps. Next, you'll discover how to enhance your organization's culture through DevOps. You'll ensure consistent behavior and maintain high code quality by experimenting with various approaches, such as test-driven and behavior-driven development. Furthermore, you will explore the benefits of implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices alongside Agile methodologies and Scrum practices and how aligning teams and promoting autonomy contributes to developing superior systems. The course also covers critical MongoDB principles, offering an in-depth understanding of its characteristics. Additionally, you'll gain insights into IBM Cloudant, exploring its architecture, technologies, advantages, and everyday use cases. Finally, you'll undertake a final project where you'll deploy and modernize an application, create user stories, enhance functionality, and redeploy using CI/CD. This project will be an excellent addition to your portfolio, displaying your newfound skills.
Northeastern University
Engaging in Improving Patient Experience Through Analytics
This course is best suited for individuals currently in the healthcare sector, as a provider, payer, or administrator. Individuals pursuing a career change to the healthcare sector may also be interested in this course. This is the second part in a two-part course exploring concepts and topics related to improving the patient experience and reducing pain points in healthcare processes through analytic and decision support frameworks. In this course, you will survey the kind of data that is used to make effective decision support choices, following up with information on how to use the data to predict outcomes. Throughout this course, you will be given the opportunity to apply the course concepts to operational improvements in your own organization.
Packt
Nmap for Penetration Testing: From Beginner to Advanced
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. In this comprehensive course, you will embark on a journey through the fundamentals and advanced techniques of Nmap, a critical tool for network scanning and penetration testing. Starting with an introduction and the setup of your working environment, you'll quickly move into compiling Nmap from source and understanding its significance in network scanning. This course is meticulously updated for 2021, ensuring you are equipped with the latest knowledge and techniques. As you progress, you'll delve into networking fundamentals, exploring port scanning, the OSI model, and the intricacies of the network and transport layers. The course then guides you through host discovery methods, including various ping scans and traceroute techniques, ensuring a robust understanding of how to identify live hosts on a network. Each module builds on the last, with a dedicated section on advanced scanning techniques where you’ll learn about different scan types, operating system detection, and aggressive scanning strategies. The final sections cover essential skills for penetration testers, including firewall detection and evasion, scan timing, performance optimization, and the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE). Service enumeration modules will provide hands-on experience in identifying and analyzing various network services, enhancing your capability to detect vulnerabilities and assess network security comprehensively. By the end of this course, you will have a deep and practical understanding of Nmap, positioning you as an adept network security professional. This course is designed for cybersecurity professionals, network administrators, and IT enthusiasts who want to deepen their knowledge of network scanning and penetration testing using Nmap. Basic understanding of networking concepts is recommended but not mandatory.
Imperial College London
What Are Viruses And How Do We Work With Them?
This course describes the basic nature if viruses and basic concepts of how they replicate. It looks at traditional methods for propagating and assaying viruses as well as methods to identify and follow them in individuals and populations. It will also look at how we can use molecular genetics to learn how viruses work in molecular detail. On successful completion of the course, learners will be able to: 1. Recognise unifying principles but diversity of virus structure and function 2. Illustrate how we can detect, identify and track viruses in individuals and populations 3. Recognise the importance of traditional and molecular genetics to understanding viruses This is an intermediate series of courses intended for both clinical and non-clinical scientists who want to update their skills for work in clinical, academic, and pharmaceutical/bioscience industries, and is developed and delivered by experts working on viruses and novel vaccines. To be successful in this series of courses, you should have basic knowledge in biology, genetics, microbiology or related fields.
University of Michigan
JSON and Natural Language Processing in PostgreSQL
Within this course, you’ll learn about how PostgreSQL creates and uses inverted indexes for JSON and natural language content. We will use various sources of data for our databases, including access to an online API and spidering its data and storing the data in a JSON column in PostgreSQL. Students will explore how full-text inverted indexes are structured. Students will build their own inverted indexes and then make use of PostgreSQL built-in capabilities to support full-text indexes.
Coursera
Excel for Beginners: Sorting, Filtering, Data-Validation
This 1-hour, project-based course is an introduction to spreadsheets. We’ll be using Excel on the Web in this project, which is the free spreadsheet program offered by Microsoft. However, all of the concepts that you will learn in this project will be applicable to other spreadsheet programs, such as LibreOffice Calc and Google Sheets. We will cover the following concepts in a hands-on manner: - Sorting tables of data - Filtering data for faster access to key information - Data-validation for minimising human error Please Note: If you don't have a free Microsoft account, you will need to create one to be able to complete the content.
Amazon Web Services
AI Fundamentals and the Cloud
Begin your AI journey by understanding fundamental concepts and ethical considerations of artificial intelligence in the cloud. This course introduces you to AI technology, focusing on how different models work and their practical applications. You'll learn to distinguish between Large Language Models (LLMs) and Foundation Models (FMs), understand responsible AI practices, and gain hands-on experience with Amazon PartyRock. Through practical exercises and real-world examples, you'll develop essential prompt engineering skills and learn how AI can enhance productivity across various job roles. The course concludes with an exploration of key AWS AI services, including Amazon Bedrock, Q Developer, Q Business, and SageMaker, providing you with a solid foundation for AI solution development.
Packt
Windows Terminal Skills
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Master Windows Terminal, the powerful terminal application for Windows. You’ll begin by learning how to install it using two simple methods and customize its appearance, startup settings, and color schemes. You’ll also explore interaction settings to optimize your terminal experience and create custom keyboard shortcuts for efficiency. Next, you’ll dive into profile management, learning how to reorder, hide, and modify profiles to suit different tasks. The course also covers advanced features such as working with panes to run multiple shells in one window. Finally, have fun by creating a retro-themed command prompt. This course is perfect for beginners and intermediate learners who want to harness the full potential of Windows Terminal. No prerequisites are required, although some familiarity with the command prompt is beneficial.
Arizona State University
Hardening, Polymers, Properties
This course will introduce age hardening and how to use a phase diagram to identify an alloy that is eligible for age hardening. The key factors that affect nucleation and crystal growth will be investigated. In addition, an introduction to polymer science will be given. The key differences between thermoplastic and thermosetting polymers will be introduced. Strengthening mechanisms will be introduced. We explore what happens to the properties of a polymer as you increase or decrease the extent of cross-linking. major polymer synthesis methods will be shown. We will review polymer selection for various applications. In addition, how structural properties vary with temperature will be presented. We explore the significance of the glass transition temperature of a polymer to its thermal and mechanical properties.
Coursera
ChatGPT for Beginners: SciFi Writing with Dall-e
This 1-hour long project-based course is for anyone interested in exploring the capabilities of cutting-edge AI technology. In it you will learn how to effectively communicate with OpenAI's ChatGPT and DALL-E models, practice creative writing, and produce visually stunning images. To achieve this, we will work with ChatGPT and Dall-e, co-writing a sci-fi inspired story, and generating images to bring the story to life through a series of tasks including setting up an OpenAI account, interacting with ChatGPT, practicing effective AI communication. This project is unique because it offers hands-on experience co-creating with advanced AI models, allowing you to explore the limits of such a technology and develop your creative writing skills. In order to be successful with it, you will only need basic computer skills and an interest in science fiction and creative writing. This project will provide you with step-by-step guidance through instructor-led videos. Unlike some other projects on Coursera, this experience will not utilize a virtual machine. Instead, learners will complete the project on their own browser or device. *June 2023 Update*: Dall-e 2 no longer provides free introductory credits. Learners are welcome to pay for credits for Dall-e or use a free alternative such as Bing Image Creator, Stable Diffusion, or Craiyon. Some features may be different, but the prompting methodology is still valid.
Google Cloud
Visualizing Data with Google Data Studio
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. This lab demonstrates how to use Google Data Studio to visualize data stored in Google Cloud SQL.
École Polytechnique
Physics of silicon solar cells
The first MOOC “Photovoltaic solar energy” is a general presentation of the solar photovoltaics technologies in the global energetic context, without extensive details. In particular the description of the solar cell operation is restricted to the ideal case In contrast this second MOOC allows a deep understanding of the properties of solar cells based on crystalline semiconductors. It consists in a general presentation of the physics of the photovoltaics devices with a particular emphasize on the silicon technology that currently represents more than 90% share of the market. Photovoltaic applications of III-V semiconductors are also mentioned. Indeed from a fundamental point of view, a solar cell can be considered as a semiconductor device (a diode) exposed to the sunlight. An introduction to the semiconductor physics is given, followed by the electron transport phenomena in a diode device. A detailed description of the solar cell operation is then provided, including the conversion efficiency limitations. A description of the solar spectrum and the optical properties of the cells are also presented. Finally the crystalline silicon technology is described from the bulk crystalline growth up to the preparation of heterojunctions combining crystalline and amorphous materials.