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Exploring Product Finance
This course will teach you how to leverage product finance concepts and frameworks to manage the finanical health of your organization’s products and services.
What you'll learn
Once an organization has finalized its strategy and vision and has its product sales function in place, Product Managers are tasked with understanding the mechanics of financial statements to manage product performance. Product Managers contribute to the financial forecasting process as well as defining product pricing using industry and competitive information. In this course, Exploring Product Finance, you’ll discover tools and frameworks used to support the organization in managing product finance. First, you'll see how to define and practice understanding financial statements including the income statement and balance sheet. Next, you'll learn how to define forecasting terms and explore a practical forecasting model. Finally, you'll explore pricing models and considerations that will impact your forecasting and financial statements. At the end of this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of exploring product finance needed to contribute to strategic discussions with business leaders.
About the author
Curtis Webb is senior director of global money movement commercialization/product management at a financial services payment card network. His organization aspires to be the best way to be paid by everyone everywhere. The product Curtis’ team manages is a service that enables money movement use cases domestic and cross-border. Curtis has joined to lead commercialization of money movement use cases including account funding transactions, account-to-account transfers, and person-to-person payments. Curtis’ payment areas of focus include acquiring, tokenization, bill payments, and faster payments. In the past, Curtis served in a variety of product management leadership roles at banks and another payment card network. Curtis holds a Master of Business Administration from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Science in Management from Saint Francis University. Curtis is also a licensed Private Pilot with the US Federal Aviation Administration.
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