Coding with Python: Workshop for Accounting and Finance Professionals (synchronous E-Learning)

Participants will be able to:

• Setup a coding environment to write and run code in Python.
• Load and aggregate data from commonly available sources (pdf, csv, xls)
• Write algorithms to manage, process and optimise data.
• Create data visualisations for analysis and reporting.

What You'll Learn

This course introduces basic coding skills to participants through a series of hands-one exercises to solve accounting and finance problems using Python. Participants will be able to: set up a coding environment to write and run code in Python; create simple scripts using Python, load and aggregate data from commonly available sources (pdf, csv, xls); download data from the web via APIs and scraping; write algorithms to manage, process and optimise data; and create data visualisations for analysis and reporting.