The Fundamentals of Business Intelligence (BI): What it Does and Why it's so Essential 1 CPE

This course isn't exactly what I thought it would be but it is very informative & eye opening. I have taken several courses offered by Ms. Louis and she is a great instructor.

Excellent course i learned today about the best Wild, then you.com, and all other claude. I can see is a new world we are in and happy to be part of this transformational Journey. This course opened my eyes

Great course. Went by quickly and had a lot of useful information.

Great course, many valuable tips. I recomnde the course.

Lovely and energetic delivery. He did a fine job and his experience shows.

Good course. Informative. Well=paced. The instructor kept the course entertaining, while infoI like informative.

Ethical issues are sometimes downrated, what is not correct. Great presentation.

I like to read the slide decks in the pdf format. The pdfs for this course were not sufficient to learn the content.

This course provided a nice overview of safety and ergonomics in the workplace, including many best practices and tips. Several good takeaways that I can easily implement. Supporting materials were also helpful and aligned with the content presented during the course.

Good discussion but I don't think the answer for the first review question is correct.

Of the many, many courses I have taken on the Illumeo platform, this was definitely one of the best and most insightful. I have always found elements of "behavioral finance" to be fascinating and powerful in planning, strategy, and business performance. Mr. Stephens has bundled the leading theories and presented them as a unified new "dimension" for planners and leaders to factor in. He has done so in a manner that CFO's and other business leaders will undoubtedly find easy to digest, replete with useful examples. The consideration of these concepts will undoubtedly add value via improvement decision-making and more enlightened risk assessments. Thank you for such a quality contribution to the Illumeo portfolio!!

I hope this could be a recording course. It took me a white to read this material. It may be easier if the instructor can show us how the formula works.

Rob does an outstanding job of effectively teaching the Key Performance Indicators and KPI Dashboards. The course was well-structured, providing a comprehensive understanding of KPIs and their critical role in measuring and driving business performance. The content was insightful and easy to follow, with a perfect blend of theory and practical examples. The section on creating KPI dashboards was particularly valuable, offering hands-on guidance on designing and implementing effective dashboards that provide real-time insights into business performance. The instructor was knowledgeable and engaging, making complex concepts accessible and relevant. The interactive elements and practical exercises helped reinforce the learning and provided me with the confidence to apply these concepts to my own work. Overall, this course is a must for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of KPIs and enhance their ability to track and manage performance effectively. I highly recommend it!

Great overview, clear and concise presenter, good value for your time

It's hard to distill the entire history of ethical thought down into a 2 hour business course, but I give credit to the instructor for making the effort.

This course helped me to allocate the duties between controller and subordinates.

The excitement of the content combined with the enthusiasm and insight of Mr. Wasny make this course, along with those he presents on AI, the most inspiring and motivational I've experienced on this platform.

I believe that there is some audio repetition about half way through. Great course, might just want to take a look at that.

Very knowledgeable instructor with many years of experience. Appreciated the inclusion of strategies for every person involved as well as examples of risk factors.

Well done. Instructor was knowledgeable and presented the materials in an understandable manner.

The material is dense and detailed. Be prepared to read and reread to fully comprehend.

This course had very good examples and case studies. Overall good overview and thought provoking.

The title is misleading, I thought the instructor was going to talk more about the concern of the CFO in running the organization, new technology adoption etc.

Both summary and detail examples were very helpful to introduce this power tool.

Its just an introduction, you wont learn practical uses of gpt in accounting, he just give us a bunch of example and why this tech is so life changing

Pretty good, although wish there was a bit more color added to slide text.

Love Blair's webinars! Definitely wish there were more available on Illumeo. He is one of my facotire presenters!

Broader than payroll, also includes general accrual accounting steps

I thought this was a thorough and helpful course as a manager who deals with many different types of personalities on a daily basis.

This course was a good refresher. This course is ideal for people not as familiar with accounting. Thank you.

This was a great course to introduce me to features of excel that I have never used to give me a great understanding of how they might be used in practical everyday applications of Excel.

Excellent refresher course and reference for future use. Instructor and materials are also excellent.

I especially appreciated the David Foster Wallace commencement speech at the end.

Presenter is easy to listen to but, the course needs real world examples - not just reading tax brackets.

Great course covering many important concepts and history behind evolution of current accounting standards

Excellent course. Valuable information. Just the right speed. However, section 10 regarding overpayments could have been better. It was a little hard to follow.

Instructor is effective at delivering the concepts and is also entertaining

This course teaches you to how to think about thinking. Excellent how the presenter (who is excellent) explained the concepts using not just general but accountant specific problems.

Interesting and informative course with relevant information to understand the controllership function. Easy to follow and understand.

Good information that should be revisited frequently.

The instructor spoke a little slow for my taste. I had to speed up the video to help me follow along. Good course, though.

Excellent! I really enjoyed listening to all of the real-life examples provided in this course.

This course provides some great information. The topics covered are very helpful as well.

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Well structured overview of the course by instructor

Super clear instructions with excellent examples provided to work through.

Thank you for providing an informative opportunity to complete my ethics cpe requirement.

This is a very comprehensive overview of the IPO process from the CFO perspective. It is particularly helpful to know the flow of the process from beginning to end, what parties are involved and their respective responsibilities during the IPO process as well as what one needs to pay attention and any related rules should be considered.

Key concepts, good material available and good tips

This a trending topic in current industries and gaining more focus for its use cases and utilization. The course provided a good introduction to this topic.

This is an area of the tax law that is very complicated. This course provided a good general overview of the rules in an organized fashion.

Great review of cash flows. The presenter does a great job of explaining, in an intuitive and common sense manner, the "Whys" of the trickiest financial statement.

I love this course! Practical and motivating, actionable advice to drive your business forward. Implementing advice right away.

This was a great refresher on keeping healthy boundaries & helps identify types of boundary issues. Great class! Thanks!

Love the outline in the beginning of what is going to be covered and, thanks for bonus of the real life tips!

It's amazing how many differences there are between different versions of Excel. The teacher did a good job of identifying the nuances between the different versions and the functions each has.

I liked the easy explanations and the quality of the supporting materials. Having an excel workbook with quality examples is a huge plus. Thank you!

This course provided an excellent overview of cyber security. I would recommend this course for anyone, especially those newer to the field of cybersecurity.

I found this course to be alright at most. There was so much being said and too much information on the slides, it made my head hurt trying to learn just the principles

Having a calculator to practice with, embedded in the course would be most helpful

Great review of the basics! Great questions in the review and final exam!

Very simple and effective. Learned so much that I took for granted. Your approach in using simple examples to focus on the feature and function is very practical.

Great information available in this course, will recommend to others.

The examples are very detailed, but if a simplified example could be shown, including the how the calculations are done, it would be very helpful.

Great course - I highly recommend listening to the "This is Water" video. I found a 23 min version on you tube... wrapped this course up nicely!

I am very satisfied with the introduction of this course.

Might be too much information in once course, but it is great stuff.

Lynn, the generational divide is an important concept to understand when hiring. This class helps me to understand the challenges in how I must lead the different members on my Team. The biggest challenge is in group meetings and in Team building. This course is very helpful. Thank you, Larry

Good presenter! Provided beneficial summary of common/preferred stock basics.

materials are 6 years old. Google algorithms have changed and continue to change. Course should be updated. Would have liked to have seen discussion abour White Hat and Black Hat SEO.

This is a high-level overview of how to organize data analytics efforts and sell these services to the business.

Excellent suggestions for making your PPT Presentations unique and impactful

I'm not really in the mood to write a review right now, but if I must I guess I'll say the course was good. Was that 50 characters?

Great Course. Very Motivating. Makes you think about what kind of leader you want to be.

Thankful for the lessons provided. The content was dynamic and practical and makes good points. Thanks

A little dated. Needs to be updated to current outlook. some of the strategies go beyond outlook software and these are useful.

this is a good course for anyone who wants to get involved in the fp&a process

The best ethics course that I have taken. Thank you!

I liked this course as I found that it was very informative and a great refresher on all the many methods and ways in which fraud can occur and be prevented as well.

Your courses have all been so wonderful, so informational, and so thorough--in short, greatly appreciated by me! Thank you for sharing your expertise, your wealth of knowledge, your inclusion of examples! I have greatly enjoyed reading and listening to all of your lectures thus far.

effective course for entry level email writing. course could show how to avoid so many emails to start with

Good course it has some useful tips. My only issue is this course seems to be outdated (2014?) for the new functions of Outlook

Great class- one of the better ones! As someone who has a published book, I can attest to the importance of editing.

What is this question ? The Altman Z statistic measures the efficiency of a firms marketing efforts over the past: The Altman Z score is about the probability of bankruptcy in the next two years... It has nothing to do with measuring marketing efforts .. How is this an exam question ?

Excellent, is a great introduction to start and put hands on the data and work with it.

I am somebody that hopes and believes that crypto will be the future of payments and investing. The one thing I do not like is how scared people get when you mention the word crypto. People are also very misinformed a lot of times or just do not care to be informed. So my only critique would be the fact that the risks of cryptocurrencies are comparable to investing in stocks or holding cash in a bank account. Illegal acts have been happening since the dawn of man and cryptocurrency has a fraction of wrongdoing on its RAP sheet compared to cash and other financial tools. Just trying to make crypto seem less scary. Change is good.

A very good course for providing best practices on how to run a presentation along with the actual research to back them.

A very good course to meet the Ohio PSR requirement

It was presented in a very clear and understandable way.

Useful beginners info on Google Sheet and introductory usage for Google drive.

Clear and Concise course. Learned a lot about analyzing data.

Though the material in this course was well thought out and presented, I found it distasteful and unpatriotic to include a former president, not just as an example of an amoral/immoral leader, but also the answer to an exam question. Keep your politics out of my professional learning materials...

Clearly a very thorough series of courses and the speaker brought a lot of personal experience to the courses. A young grad wishing to climb the ladder would benefit from this series. I wish the final exam could have been taken in pieces as I progressed through the series as opposed to doing all 61 questions after listening to the 8 courses.

This is a good, quick refresher course to get your mind going during Covid isolation.

This course did a really nice job with individual case studies and footage of historical figures to illustrate the contrasts in leadership.

Depending on the student's knowledge of Excel this may be a little basic. However, there are several little tricks to incorporate. This instructor performs a double presentation of the material, it is great if you are unfamiliar with what is being taught, it can be redundant if you are more knowledgeable about the subject; but as a general approach I feel it is helpful.

Excellent information in this course but your exam was so far off base and there is no way, even though you say there is, to review missed answers on the exam.

This course was very helpful. new tools for me to practice and master. If you work with data and excel this is the right course. take it and you will find that worth more than you imagine.

Very good class, informative materials and well presented

This course could have been really cool, but I couldn't follow the Excel directions....

I appreciate all of the practice. Lot's of problems help to develop proficiency at speed.

if you ever have to explain basic accounting concepts to someone, this is an excellent example on how to do it - introduction of accounting to novices done perfectly - very clearly, methodically and encouragingly.

Fraudulent expense disbursements may happens at any kind of organization. This course will provides interest and necessary knowledge about the most common fraud type, also provides the techniques on how to identify it. Good course for everyone in professional organizations.

I found this second module to be more instructive/informational than the first with more actionable information.

This course was really interesting because I learned about some of the new things I can do with 365. Definitely recommended. However, digging into the differences between various versions of Excel is not too interesting.

Good review course. This was a solid refresher for something I have been away from for some time.

Great content! Lots of takeaways that can be applied immediately.

Great, quick, and handy guide for finance managers to keep in mind regardless of role. First Illumeo PDF slide deck I've saved for the reminders.

the final exam questions are not clearly addressed in the slides.

Very well done explaining job costs. I have been in manufacturing for 30+ years and highly recommend this to anyone just entering this sector.

Awesome course. I finally understand what the Blockchain is and does. Many thanks

I found that the power point did not have the take aways from the course.

There should be a handout which can be referred to with more information that assists with the exam. This took longer than 3 hours.

Explanation/presentation was very conversational and provided a lot of insight based on real experience with the legislation.

I wish I saw this training at my previous job. What a good, straightforward approach to managing the situation.

This course is very easy to follow and the tip to get the budget template is great.

Great course for being introduced to the Blockchain world

The course itself was fantastic. I would take pieces of it again as refreshers. Given the final exam is 160 questions, I would have been better suited to take the classes in two hour chunks with credit after each class. It was also incredibly frustrating to answer the same question numerous times in the final exam.

Decent information, but editing of commentary could be better.

The course has no insight but just reading off the slides word for word.

Recommended for anyone who needs a refresher on auditing or anyone who is about to go through an audit!

Learned a lot from this course. EJ did a great job and he constantly engages his audience. Would recommend this course to others to learn more about Cybersecurity.

An exceptionally well-thought-out agenda for this session.

Fraud: Focus on Internal Controls to Prevent and Detect Fraud is a good overview course. The instructor used good examples and highlighted good outside resources.

Great info! Informative and easy to understand. I liked that it was broken up into smaller chunks.

This course was a good introductory to blockchain technology.

I am a little surprised at how poorly this course is taught. It is a whole lot of information jammed into excessively long discussions and readings. There should be a lot more examples.

This course is 6 stars out of 5 - the best and most thought provoking I have taken on Illumeo. I really enjoyed the links to psychological literature, and the action-oriented strategies and recommendations to improve these Executive traits. Take this course!

Great tips for Excel! Instructor has a very energetic and entertaining style!

An important aspect that companies forget to look at because cyber attacks are seldomly experienced by them. Great refresher on how to react to cyber attacks

Business Intelligence - Data Collection and Cleaning gives you a good grasp of gathering data and processing.

This course is very practical. The instructor made the topic very relatable and provided simple, easy to implement tools for connecting. Excellent!

well thought out and acceptable for cpe review purposes

Outstanding course! Learned a ton in a short amount of time.

The course is great for refreshing the skills in Pivot Tables. It is very informative and detailed. The presenter discusses the topic in a step-by-step procedure making it very clear and easy to understand.

It was a good overview of the new lease accounting standard. Thank you.

Great stuff that every financial person should understand.

Very helpful to learn of the different styles and their characteristics

The hands-on part of this module was effective, but the final exam had some grammatical errors that made it more esoteric than necessary.

Just advanced enough to be understandable and useful. My favorite in this course so far.

Great overview of the cash flow statement. Instructor was very good!

I notice that most audits are not using this risk based auditing mentality, so learning about it now makes me want to find a way to implement it into my firm!

Great introduction to Blockchain and how it can be used for business. I hope that this catches on and that businesses will use block chain in day to day business.

Presenter gave an effective overview of the topic, including benefits and applications. Briefly discussed why it has not yet "arrived," but explains the potential.

Good course and interesting material presented. Would recommend to anyone interested in blockchain.

This course was informative and will be useful in my day to day work.

The hands-on application of regression analysis, though simplified, was helpful in understanding how to interpret the results

Sussman is excellent. He was one of my MBA professors so I was excited to see him on this platform. If he's teaching a class, you want to take it.

Great class as always Michael. Easy to follow along with and good job explaining.

Great stuff as always, Michael. Thanks to Grant Thornton for making this available.

After having been away from auditing for many years, this was an excellent refresher course.

Seems silly to have an exam on this topic, probably because I watched the video after completing 10 Illumeo courses. :-)

The course is general enough for most audiences, but doesn't expand on topics enough for those who work in a cyber-related role.

This was a nice comprehensive overview of blockchains and their uses.

This course was great. The material was clear to understand.

Would have been nice to see what we should be doing in Excel. Hard to know if we did it right.

Although I thought the examples to be very helpful, I felt a little confused throughout this one.

It is interesting to learn about how to choose variables and how to look out for omitted variables.

Good course, I would like to expand more and go through some sample leases to learn to read the lease language that way as well.

Course was informative and easy to navigate. I would recommend it to a colleague.

The course did a very nice job and explained important, relevant information in a manageable and easy-to-digest manner. The instructor was efficient and broke down the topics in an understandable way.

This course was informative and provided the basics beyond using regressions for forecasting.

The real life examples were helpful to walk through

Gives you just enough information to be dangerous, but not enough to be reliable.

This site and the courses are easy to follow and easy to use.

Great course, always insightful content. Learned a bunch of new regression material

Great course, the documents are relevant are properly explain the material covered. I would argue that some of it is outdated and should consider tools available to be used with Excel. Some of the questions in the test need to be reviewed too.

Many supporting materials didn't open. Many supporting materials didn't open.

I highly recommend this course. It was probably my most favorite course thus far. The presenter was well-spoken and impactful. His stories also help to keep you interested and wanting more.

I do not think that this explained block chain well

good refresher course for auditors who may not have manufacturing clients regularly

this was good. it seemed similar to the last course i took, but it was good to learn.

Seeing how it is used by businesses is interesting. Would like to see more of "how" it is done.

This course provides a good general overview of how to structure data appropriately. The emphasis on financial ratios and metrics seems overly specific to one domain, but makes sense given the instructor's background.

The course had a large amount of overlap between the Data Collection and Cleaning course

I liked this course's description of BI tools like Tableau and data analytic tools like R.

great content, relative and provides in a clear and concise manner

Liked the next steps section especially that concisely illustrates what is to come in analytics. Very straightforward course in general and easy to understand.

Great overview of Big Data, now understand the foundation to continue learning.

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this course was my first introduction into data analytics. I liked the material, organization of the program and Mike's insight as a person who actually works in the field.

good presentation and level of detail. additional examples of application to perhaps different industries would be helpful.

Very nice - I like the course and the image of the flat file...as it is probably similar to what a lot of people are seeing.

Good overview of and introduction to BI. compared what one would expect of decision making process to how BI actually works

Was very interesting, especially helpful were examples that were given.

The modules were very helpful to understand the material.

I appreciated how the instructor took his time in explaining definitions and how to manipulate the data.

Blockchain is a very complex technology to understand...at least for me. I was very pleased with the somewhat simple explanation of how blockchain works and how it may apply in my industry of accounting.

This was an excellent overview of fundamental excel functions. I love the multiple uses of examples.

Great introductory course. Love how the presentation was well prepared.

I found the theoretical information interesting; however, struggled to pick up the excel examples in the webcast format.

Decent look into regression, sample size of the data was unrealistically small which took away from the learning possibilities.

Michael made it easy to understand the importance of fixed effects in advanced analytics

Regression in excel is very helpful to analyze dummy data. I would like to recommend this course to anyone who is working on analyzing data. By learning this skill is helpful to increase work efficiency.

I thought this course was helpful because there was a real-life example used.

Great course. wish there was more time to learn. had hard time following along.

This course did a very good job of going in depth with its explanations of regression analysis.

Thanks for putting the course together. It was very helpful.

This is a good discussion on finding opportunities to use big data in making future business decisions.

Good review course. Fairly simple accounting concepts.

Nice to learn about DA. It is truly changing the industry and how the businesses strategize in the marketplace

Loved the in-depth analysis and theoretical application of blockchain in business today.

I found this module somewhat confusing and abstract compared to previous modules. Hands-on examples would've helped distill your points.

Very informative and organized in an easy to follow method. Enjoyed the training.

Manipulating the data and walking through step by step is very helpful

I thought it was pretty good. A lot was review for me, but I'd never heard of the Monte Carlo test, so that was interesting.

Does a good job of showing different ways that we can put big data to use and not just the terminology.

This course had enough detail to explain blockchains without getting too complex. He used good analogies to help explain the concepts.

One of the more concise basic walkthroughs of crypto I've seen. Would recommend.

I think it's a widely held belief that in order to be considered smart just throw the word bitcoin around. I think I can hang in there now.

This is a relevant topic today, but it is surprising that the data in this presentation on Data is more than 5 year old

This course was short, sweet, and straight to the point. The material was interesting and it was easy to stay engaged throughout.

I found this course to be helpful. This material was new to me and interesting to learn about.

Great Comprehensive review of this decision to those unfamiliar with SALT concepts.

this one, although hands on, was dry and difficult to hold my attention the entire time

This exam was more challenging than the others! Good to see.

It says that theory is easy but applying is hard. We are doing theory....

This was a very interesting course. Blockchain was a mystery to me prior to this session.

This course was easy to follow along with the instructor.

This course provided a good framework. Pace was good. I think its a good start to understanding analytics

Very informational course. The mid-section can be a bit bland, but it's very useful knowledge.

Good content for intro and helped to get acquainted with the material.

The speed of the presenter when talking was way too fast. We were learning about presenting to non financial managers and I could not keep up with the flow of information. Way too fast and way too much.

This was a good but examination of ethics starting with various scandals and ethics violations to COSO standards to the best practice policies in creating an ethical culture from the top down at a company.

Good discussion on recognizing revenue under the new revenue standard.

Great refresher for terms and ideas I learned in college. Also helped me find more practical applications of each topic

excellent high level analysis of what BI is all about

depending on experience could be entry level, probably good for those who have no used BI before

Good insight in personalities and leadership. Excellent explanations of human behavior

Continues to build on the past courses well. I look forward to the next courses

Very informative and easy to understand from an executive level

Very informative class on accounts payable and what they exactly do!!

A bit of overkill, given that the platform is pretty easy to understand.

Very thorough on how to use statistical analysis and other types of analysis for analyzing different types of data. Excellent job tying the information back to real-world application.

Informative, I don't know if some of the exam questions were critical to demonstrating mastery of the course topic.

easy to follow and understand. log in was troublesome at times. wish hand out material did not have a color/dark background to save on print toner.

Ok program, doesn't fully address the fraud aspect from a practical standpoint.

I was surprised by how broad the potential uses are for data analytics.

I wish there were more examples rather than just slides.

It was a good training and gave the insight on BI. It covered the material to give us insight

This course was very helpful on data analytics. The instructor was very knowledgeable.

Everything about this course was absolutely fantastic.

It was very helpful to see a live excel demonstration of how data can be analyzed in real time.

the system is easy to navigate, kind of a waste of 10 minutes.

Very general. I would have liked to see actual application of concepts to delivery of services vs. business decisions of an organization.

Great introduction to the topic. I highly recommend to someone just getting started with the topic.

Excellent overview of Big Data opportunities. Creates a strategic mindset and different ways of approaching client discussions--raising issues that our clients and their executives wrestle with but ones that we as auditors and tax advisors don't normally think to raise and discuss

Quick & easy to follow. I was able to get in, watch the video, and discover all of the illumeo tools without issue.

excellent overview of opportunity for business to use big data analytics. I look forward to reviewing the more detailed courses.

This was a nice and clear overview of how to navigate the site.

Very interesting and insightful course on new data analytics techniques.

I feel as though I could apply these lessons to my job. While I feel like I knew most of the material beforehand, this was a good refresher.

Good course.... does a good job of introducing basic concepts.

Great introductory course covering data gathering, merging large data sets, and data cleaning.

This was a good overview of Business Intelligence. It was well organized and clearly presented.

Good course, I learned a lot. The case study was a bit lengthy and the format made it a little difficult to read and stay engaged.

This course was very helpful in enabling me to understand the changes to the tax law. This will enable me to teach some of the relevant aspects of the law to my client base.

This course was very useful. It was a good follow up to the Business Intelligence: What is it and why course.

course is boring, too focused on slides, not attention grabbing. need way to may more interactive before quiz

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I thought the course was fine for a basic level of knowledge on what BI was as well as some of the advantages and disadvantages.

I appreciated the use of current and relevant topics to help explain concepts, such as the use of the Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks examples.

Another great course. This course utilizes a case study to really give you deep insight into real world evaluations of the big data revolution.

Good general overview, would be better if a little more interactive

Good introduction and overview of data collection and cleaning.

Thank you so much for this great learning experience. I look forward to continueing with the CDAP program.

The course explained the importance of learning about using appropriate data to achieve predictable results and how to obtain data that will satisfy those conditions.

Breaking up the information into easy to digest modules is a great way to really digest this information

Interesting that we have a PwC case for a mandatory GT training.

great course!!!!!!! going to show my grandkids this course one day so they can learn all this rockin information too!!!!!

This course helped me prepare for a training. I really feel like I got a good foundation.

very good introduction into an area I've never studied

It met all the stated objectives. I thought it was more interesting than the previous two sections.

The course made complex concepts very easy to understand.

Very good background! Very good breakout of the steps that need to be taken to collect, clean, merge, and analyze final data.

The instructor did a good job of explaining the concepts

Slides could be updated and more visually stimulating

Effective course! I now have a better understanding why BI is so important.

the course was clear and very informative, i look forward to implementing this in my every day work life.

Thank you for the course. Learned about interpreting data and analyzing data. Helpful course.

This course was a good course for someone who is not familiar with business intelligence as a whole.

The course material was good and simple. I would suggest adding more examples at each level.

The course highlights some key strategies to "clean" your data. Before this course, I did not know the importance of cleaning data. I now feel that I can take these strategies and directly improve my analysis.

I think this was a good introduction to Business Intelligence.

I like the hands on learning with the case study since it allows me to go through the motions instead of just writing down steps.

I thought the course provided good detail on a number of the tools available to use for analytics. The time allotted was also very reasonable.

this was a very engaging webcast and I think I will be able to use this going forward

this course was a great learning experience for tax professionals

I think the questions given were applicable to the training and although tricky I considered them useful.

This informational video achieved its objectives. It was very thorough in its instructions and examples.

Pretty interesting, especially the stuff on benfords law

I liked the relatability to the industry. This day in age, business is driven by data analysis and using that information to become more efficient.

I enjoyed the presenter, he seemed very educated and excited to inform others on the fundamentals of business intelligence. I think this is a great starter course for anyone looking to learn more in this field.

This course provides an informative foundation to BI.

Great final course to take that sums up data and analytics. good examples

A little hard to follow if you have never done a regression analysis. Having an easy sample regression and walking through all the steps would help.

Very informative and easy-to-follow course. Great instructor. Look forward to other lessons offered by this instructor

This was a quality course related to Data Collection and cleaning 0- I thought that the information provided was very relevant.

some interesting facts here. also learned a few things

Big data is a big deal and I am well-informed now.

Although shorter and more applicable than the last course I completed (Business Intelligence), the case study seemed to be more a repeat of the slides, as opposed to a case study under the academic definition.

Video was very helpful in getting feel for the platform.

Good overview of BI and different ways to use it. Beneficial to understand how companies are using this for predictive analysis

I felt the valid test data question was confusing, but other than that, it was a good course!

It was pretty basic. Only 20% of the information shared in this course was new. Everything else is pretty common knowledge. I was looking for more practical, hands-on approach.

it was helpful how I could see how this is used in my everyday life via Amazon and Netflix

As an introductory course this was beneficial in understanding the original concepts of Business Intelligence and some of the fundamentals and related terminology. I look forward to digging into the concepts in future sessions

Interesting course with a lot of specific examples which help to illustrate the practicality of the subject.

Straight to the point and well organized. Great way to get some high level knowledge of business intelligence.

Very in depth overview of TCJA. This really helped my understanding of which tax items have been modified or kept.

Some of the review and exam questions were irrelevant or out right wrong. The bullet points could have been organized better to be more communicative and concise. The course failed to bring up that there might be any ethical concerns regarding big data and instead expected us to drink the "kool aide" without introducing that there might be any critical analysis regarding the topic.

The course offers a good overview of the practical implications of big data and how to convey its ROI to a client / internal management.

This was a good overview to understanding BI and offered basic tools to implement.

Helpful overview and not too tedious course introduction to the platform. Moves quickly enough.

The questions seems to be very simple and can easily answer by anyone with a quick glance through of the course material.

I liked that the course was concise. There was a lot of good information, and it was presented in a matter that was easy to comprehend.

The course was extremely long for the amount of information presented.

I thought the review was thorough and introduced the site very well.

Exactly what I needed, added many of the missing pieces for me. I like the format, showing what to do then, doing it. My only gripe is that the exam has questions on charts when no charts were in the course material.

The course is excellent, it adds a different perspective in the function of the CAE as part of the company.

Information provided in the instructor's comments was not necessarily included in the presentation materials.

Too simple. I learned this as a sophomore in college - not necessary once you are a CPA.

Great course! Very informative! Learned a lot about the importance of ratio analysis and various ratios used to compare companies to their competitors

very interesting and I would suggest this course to a college student.

The course is well structured and the instructor presented the material very professional. I have a good understanding of the whole concept. Enjoy it very much!

I like how the course was broken up, and how you are able to access the slides.

This was a very informative video to help me learn more.

A good introduction to blockchain and cryptocurrencies for those without too much tech-talk.

Really enjoy how Marc & Paul present together - engaging!

Good overview of models and high level theories, but would have liked to see some of the examples actually done in Excel or another tool.

Good job logically laying this out. The use of video to demonstrate the technique was excellent. The instructor would be easier to listen to if he didn't end every sentance with "right?"

good, easy to follow instruction with lots of examples

I love how you used very clear and specific examples! Thank you Leslie!

Good overview of the Segregation of Duties method of review and of why its important

The text in the spreadsheet was too small to follow the instructor on a 17 inch monitor

great overview for non-sales tax experts. Great examples to support the rules.

The instructor explains the concepts with relevant examples which makes it easy to understand and apply. The course is well structured and detailed to provide step by step procedure for creating RBIA approach.

This was excellent, I had no idea how much Excel could do.

Interesting real life cases.

I really enjoyed learning about the different ways to collect, merge and validate data. I thought is was very interesting and useful to know that there is an excel add-in where you can get data from the Federal Reserve (Fred) as well as data from the U.S. Census, and Google Trends.

Great course in understanding the IT and Finance relationship.

A bit hard to follow in some places but overall, another very good presentation

Great Course

Some more error rectification technique may be included in this course.

excellent course on a much needed topic

A very interesting topic, another one they don't teach you in school.

Course had nothing to do with the title

Solution for problems - if you can show via formulas with data input or in excel that would be very helpful

Very comprehensive and extremely thorough.

Right level for beginners. Couldn't tell if this course material was current. I thought this was good at laying down a foundation to start from - getting grounded in BI. I have an interest in learning more about this topic.

Didn't realize QB was this powerful. Good overview.

seems like a good class for today's environment

Great Course

Very helpful

Very informative course!

Tough overall but a great course

Tough course

Great course.

Good overview of Digital Marketing.

Easy content, presented nicely.

Short, but very well put together and very informative, nicely done!

Instructor was effective at presenting the content, as well as introducing new ideas

It is a little challenging to listen to this presenter. She seems very repetitive. I also was discouraged that every time she referred to a leadership position, she used the term "he."

Good course

Difficult but enjoyable

Amazing. You should try being a professor because I think you would do well

Great refresher on financial statement analysis

Great time.

Great Course!

Good course.

Very interesting information, good course

detailed and informative

Slides were extremely helpful to review, concepts laid out very plainly but informatively

Fantastic Course

Great course. Even better teacher. Sorry it's late.

Excellent course about Business Intelligence and the components it entails.

Pictures in the powerpoint were helpful for understanding the information.

Nice

Interesting stuff

A+

interesting, lot of material

Good course

Great overall course, wish I watched this sooner!

I worked as an accounting professor for a few years and had a similar style to teaching. It is extremely effective. Nice review sir.

Great class will implement the information on subtotal tomorrow will look for more of these

This course covered some seemingly basic concepts that are huge time savers if you are unaware of them.

I appreciated that the course talked about CPAs in business not just in public accounting.

What about online identity theft companies? What do they do and are there worth the money? What are the steps to take if you have your identity stolen?

More information on analytics to identify misuse.

Great tips!

Great overview

Excellent course

Enjoyed it.

Excellent overview about risks and things to look into.

Great course!

I enjoyed how informative and positive the speaker was during the Session. He provided real life small examples to help understand some terminology.

Good intro. Looking to see what the next course shows me.

Some great tips.