XLRI - Xavier School of Management

Executive Development Programme in Financial Analytics

XLRI - Xavier School of Management

Finance

About Programme

Nearly every industry is generating vast amount of data and nearly every business leader today understands the importance of making sense out of that data to drive business strategy. Companies need more from Finance than just accurate financial statement analysis. They need predictive insights which can improve their real time day to day decision making. Finance analytics enables to combine internal financial information with external information by using social media and big data to provide predictive insights. Whether it is with respect to stock market prediction or customer profitability, finance analytics enables to provide a direction in predicting all. This course blends easy to use statistical tools with complex machine learning tools and algorithms to equip the participants the requisite skill sets in analyzing data. By the end of this course, the participants should be able to perform the required financial analysis using powerful tools like R and Python.

Programme Content

Module No.

Module Topics

1

Introduction to the Course, Installing the software

2

Introduction to R

3

Introduction to Python

4

Introduction to Finance

5

Accounting Data Analysis

6

Understanding data in finance, sources of data, cleaning and pre-processing data

7

Understanding Machine Learning

8

Building Models Using Accounting Data

9

Fraud Analytics

10

News Analytics and Sentiment Analysis

11

Valuation Analytics

12

Time Series Analysis in R/Python

13

Understanding stock price behaviour

14

Introduction to Technical Analysis

15

Back-testing Trading Models

16

Valuation of Options

17

Portfolio Analytics

18

Building stock price forecasting models using Machine Learning and Deep learning

19

Introduction to Fintech

20

Introduction to Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies

21

Case Studies of some successful Fintech companies

Capstone Project Work

Indicative hands-on activities during live sessions

Decision Trees and other ML tools for Credit Scoring

Open AI / Generative AI Applications in Financial Analytics

Neural Network (NN) Models for Stock Price Prediction

Building a Trading Model and performing Back Testing

Value-at-Risk (VaR) Estimation

Back Testing of Portfolio Models (Modern Portfolio Theory)

Sentiment Analytics (text Analytics) using NLP or LLM

Valuation Analytics

ML model to analyse and identify financial fraud

Pedagogy

The primary method of instruction will be through LIVE lectures that will be beamed online via Internet to student desktops/laptops or classrooms. The pedagogy will comprise lectures by XLRI faculty and will be taught with the help of presentations, exercises and general discussions. Being an applied course, most of the sessions will be conducted as a workshop. By the end of the program, the participants will be better able to use Python and R to build advanced financial models and perform exploratory and predictive analysis in Finance.

Programme Audience

Finance professionals aspiring to enter into the field of application of analytics tools in Finance
Practitioners whose role requires dealing with voluminous and complex financial information
Analysts who need to deploy tools to aid in the financial decision-making process
Eligibility
For Indian Participants - Graduates (10+2+3) or Diploma Holders (only 10+2+3) from a recognized university (UGC/AICTE/DEC/AIU/State Government) in any discipline. ·
For International Participants - Graduation or equivalent degree from any recognized University or Institution in their respective country.
Working professionals with a minimum of
2 years of work experience
as on the Programme start date i.e., Technical Orientation date

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