Corporate Finance Institute (CFI) on-demand courses are designed for finance professionals and industry practitioners who want to master the art of corporate finance and supporting skillsets. 
After registering for a CFI On Demand Course, CPA Saskatchewan will send you information on how to access the course within 2 business days.
On completion of the CFI courses, CFI will issue a certificate as supporting documentation for CPD audit purposes.
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OBJECTIVE:
CFI has partnered with Machine Learning Edge on a unique course on the foundations of Python for finance professionals. This course will utilize Excel knowledge to learn Python in an intuitive and easy way!
The world of finance is changing and now is the time to invest. The skillsets of investment bankers, asset managers, sales and trading professionals are all rapidly evolving and developing a skillset in Python is essential if you want to progress. Python is crucial for analyzing big data, and it’s the foundational software used by data scientists for machine learning. Knowing Excel provides an understanding of the fundamental concepts of programming and computer science.
Learn how to apply these Excel concepts to the Python language. The course starts by teaching participants the basics of Python Programming, which are used to transition to more advanced topics.

WHO WILL BENEFIT:
Professionals and beginners who are new to programming and want to learn the foundations of Python. 

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Key concepts the course is going to cover are:

• how to set-up Anaconda and Jupyter Notebooks for Python,
• Python Native Data Types (Strings, Booleans, Integers, Lists, Tuples, and Sets),
• input/output formatting,
• how to build custom functions,
• for loops and conditional logic, and 
• using the Numpy and Pandas Package.