Business Essentials

Business Essentials turns business from confusing to readable. Across three self-paced modules you'll learn to name a company's goals and stakeholders, run a strategy gap analysis, and read its financial statements and key ratios — then pull it all into a one-page Business Snapshot. Built for beginners in plain language, it teaches you to use AI as your analyst for the fast work while you keep the judgment that only a person can make. Finish the capstone at a READY verdict and earn the AI-Powered Business Essentials badge. A single running case study — Riverstone Coffee, a small roaster and café — threads through all three modules so every idea is shown in action before you apply it to your own business.