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professional education (CPE) credits for their live participation without the added cost typically charged by accredited institutions. Although tailored for finance professionals, the hour-and-a-half long presentations were also designed so that CEOs and other key company leaders could gain a deeper understanding of the financial functions of their businesses. The continuation of the series in 2025 will explore advanced methods and tools for data analytics and how


Although tailored for finance professionals, the hour-and-a- half long presentations were also designed so that CEOs and other key company leaders could gain a deeper understanding of the financial functions of their businesses.


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finance can benefit from information technology (IT) and machine learning (ML)/AI. The first course will cover using descriptive analytics to enhance data-driven decision making. Participants will learn about the types of data analytics, the basics of exploratory data analytics, data profiling with central tendency, and associative descriptive analytics and correlation techniques. The class will include multiple analyses of companies that are effectively using descriptive analytics to improve business performance.


Recent Gartner studies found that 39 percent


of organizations were already using machine learning (ML) or AI in their finance functions, with many relying on the technology to eliminate time- consuming manual tasks. Still, without a baseline, it can be challenging to know how to get the most out of these newfangled intelligent systems. The second course in FEDA’s 2025 finance series aims to provide finance professionals with a substantive understanding of the fundamentals of ML and AI, key characteristics of ML models, supervised


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