Mergers and acquisitions courses can help you learn valuation techniques, negotiation strategies, financial modeling, and due diligence processes. You can build skills in assessing market conditions, structuring deals, and understanding regulatory implications. Many courses introduce tools like Excel for financial analysis and software for project management, that support tracking progress and ensuring compliance throughout the acquisition process.

University of Michigan
Skills you'll gain: Interviewing Skills, Leadership, Business Leadership, Leadership Development, Organizational Leadership, Leadership and Management, Professional Development, Team Building, Recruitment, Team Management, Talent Management, Coaching, Communication
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Coursera
Skills you'll gain: Reconciliation, Ledgers (Accounting), Auditing, Accounting Records, General Ledger
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Microsoft
Skills you'll gain: Productivity Software, Administrative Support, Sales Process, Customer Service, AI Personalization, Sales Management, Sales, Customer Relationship Building, Verbal Communication Skills, Sales Enablement, Account Management, Microsoft Copilot, File Management, Communication, Brainstorming, Scheduling
Advanced · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks
Skills you'll gain: System Monitoring, Technical Communication, Incident Management, Application Performance Management, Cloud Applications, Continuous Monitoring, Software Visualization, Anomaly Detection, Real Time Data, Software Installation
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Coursera
Skills you'll gain: Audit Working Papers, Document Management, File Management, Accounting Records, Financial Auditing, Auditing, Document Control, External Auditing, Organizational Skills, Quality Control
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Erasmus University Rotterdam
Skills you'll gain: Security Management, Intelligence Collection and Analysis, International Relations, Public Safety and National Security, Safety and Security, Risk Management, Cybersecurity, Threat Detection, Governance, Cultural Diversity
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Skills you'll gain: Balance Sheet, Financial Statements, Management Accounting, Performance Measurement, Income Statement, Financial Statement Analysis, Cost Accounting, Capacity Management, Financial Reporting, Asset Management, Organizational Strategy, Performance Analysis, Financial Accounting, Financial Analysis, Budgeting, Operational Analysis, Business Metrics, Accounting, Budget Management, Small Business Accounting
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Dashboard, Data Preprocessing, Apache Airflow, Star Schema, Data Storytelling, Process Mapping, Extract, Transform, Load, Data Transformation, SQL, Data Pipelines, JSON, Apache Kafka, Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, Pandas (Python Package), Business Intelligence, Data Validation, Data Quality, Performance Improvement, Python Programming
Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, AI Personalization, Customer Insights, Selling Techniques, Sales Process, Generative AI, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software, Sales Presentations, Workflow Management, Verbal Communication Skills, Product Knowledge, Sales Prospecting, Microsoft Copilot, Customer Relationship Management, Sales Enablement, Communication, Sales Strategy, Personalized Service, Calendar Management, Business Process Automation
Advanced · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Marketing Automation, AI Personalization, Marketing Effectiveness, Marketing, Content Marketing, Marketing Strategies, MarTech, Advertising Campaigns, Agentic Workflows, AI Enablement, Marketing Analytics, Customer Relationship Management, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Social Media Management, Customer experience improvement
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Anthropic
Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, AI Workflows, Agentic Workflows, Model Context Protocol, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Anthropic Claude, Application Programming Interface (API), API Design, Tool Calling, Embeddings, Vector Databases, Model Evaluation
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: User Centered Design, User Experience Design, Responsive Web Design, User Interface (UI) Design, Web Design and Development, Prototyping, Graphic and Visual Design, User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design, Figma (Design Software), Web Design, Wireframing, Typography, Layout Design, Interactive Design, Web Applications, Mobile Development
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks