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Finance Industry Reports

Sourced research on the Finance fields our courses prepare you for, from the work itself to the standards and skills behind it.

Micro-Degree Financial services and professional finance: accounts receivable management, col...

Accounts Receivable Management: Market Structure, Automation and Collection Risk in the United States

Accounts receivable (AR) management covers invoicing, cash application, collections, dispute handling and receivables reporting. This report focuses on the United...

  • United States, with North American public company data and global vendor survey data where stated
  • Latest available data
  • 10 min read
Micro-Degree Financial services and professional finance

Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory: Market Structure, Competition and Outlook

Global M&A advisory activity is concentrated in a small number of large banks, specialist boutiques and legal advisers. Reported deal value recovered strongly in the...

  • Global, with US-target and regional references where cited
  • Latest available data
  • 9 min read
Micro-Degree Financial services: investment banking, capital markets and professional finance

Investment Banking and Capital Markets: Market Structure, Competition and Regulatory Outlook

Global investment banking fees were US$60.5 billion in the first half of the latest reporting period, down 1%. A vendor tracker reports full-year investment banking...

  • Global, with US and UK/EU regulatory detail where the evidence is jurisdiction-specific
  • Latest available data
  • 9 min read
Micro-Degree Finance and professional advisory: business valuation and transaction due dilige...

Business Valuation and Due Diligence: Industry Report

Demand for business valuation and due diligence follows deal activity. Published estimates put the due diligence market at about 1.89 billion to 8.82 billion US dollars...

  • Global, with US standards and regulator material where noted
  • Latest available data
  • 9 min read
Micro-Degree Financial services: digital banking, neobanking, payments and fintech investment

Digital Banking and FinTech: Market Structure, Economics and Risk

Digital banking and fintech combine payments, neobanking, digital banking platforms and related lending and investment activity. The available evidence shows heavy...

  • Global, with US and UK/EU neobank examples where company or research disclosures in the source pack apply
  • Latest available data
  • 10 min read
Micro-Degree Finance: accounts payable processing, AP automation, AP outsourcing and early-pa...

Accounts Payable Management: Industry Report on Costs, Automation, Outsourcing and Fraud Risk

Accounts payable (AP) management covers invoice receipt, matching, approval, exception handling and supplier payment. Cited benchmarks put the median cost of processing...

  • Global for cost and market data, with United States regulatory and fraud-reporting sources
  • Latest available data
  • 10 min read
Micro-Degree Finance: financial reporting and accounting standards

Financial Accounting and Reporting Standards (IFRS/GAAP): Industry Report

This report covers financial accounting and reporting standards, principally IFRS Accounting Standards and US GAAP set by the FASB, with a global scope and the United...

  • Global, with US GAAP (FASB) and IFRS jurisdictional adoption as reference points; figures are as reported by each source and not harmonized
  • Latest available data
  • 11 min read
Micro-Degree Financial services: private markets (private equity and venture capital)

Private Equity and Venture Capital: Market Structure, Fees, Funding Flows and Regulation

This report examines private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) at global scale, with US regulatory references. The latest available data show concentrated fundraising...

  • Global market data; US regulatory references (SEC private fund adviser rules)
  • Latest available data
  • 10 min read
Micro-Degree Financial services: securities trading and derivatives markets

Securities Trading and Derivatives: Industry Report

Exchange-traded and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives are large and still growing in the latest available releases. Worldwide exchange-traded volume was 13.75 billion...

  • Global, with Japan (Bank of Japan data) and United States (Cboe data) examples where noted
  • Latest available data
  • 10 min read
Micro-Degree Financial services and professional finance

Investment Banking Analysis: Global Market Structure, Competition and Regulation

Global investment banking (IB) revenue reached 102.9 billion US dollars in the latest full calendar year, up 15% year on year on a Dealogic basis. Deal activity drove...

  • Global, with United States and regional breakouts where the source provides them
  • Latest available data
  • 8 min read
Micro-Degree Finance: professional accounting, bookkeeping and related services

Financial Accounting and Bookkeeping: Market Structure, Technology and Regulatory Outlook

Financial accounting and bookkeeping services form a large and fragmented global market, and its estimated size depends heavily on how each publisher defines the scope...

  • Global for market estimates; United States for employment and establishment data; North America and United States for survey evidence, as labelled
  • Latest available data
  • 10 min read

Updated Oct 2026

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