15 Best Budgeting Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Budgeting courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $79.00. 8 come from a named university or institution, including IBM, Google and University of Pennsylvania. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $49.00 – $79.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "budgeting" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $49.00 to $79.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Budgeting & Driver-Based Planning
Offered by IBM
By the end of this course, you'll be able to design, document, and defend a credible, business-aligned budget — one that earns sign-off from leadership and genuine buy-in from the departments that have to deliver it. Mos...
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Master Automobile Budgeting: Analyze Financial Performance
Offered by EDUCBA
Build practical budget modeling and financial performance analysis skills through a structured automobile industry scenario. You’ll begin with business fundamentals, operational processes, supply flows, cost structures,...
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Apply Budgeting and Forecasting Fundamentals
Offered by EDUCBA
Learners will analyze budgeting frameworks, apply cost classification techniques, evaluate financial forecasts, and prepare budgeted financial statements to support effective business decision-making. By the end of this...
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Advanced Budgeting Across Automobile, IT & Banking
Offered by EDUCBA
This Specialization equips learners with advanced budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance analysis skills across the automobile, IT, and banking sectors. Through structured, industry-aligned courses, learners b...
$49.00listed price -
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Budgeting: Apply Inflation & Approaches
Offered by Coursera
Budgeting is more than forecasting numbers—it’s the foundation of sound financial planning. In this intermediate-level course, you’ll learn how to recognize and apply core budgeting approaches used in business today, inc...
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Planejamento de projetos: Como reunir tudo
Offered by Google
Esse é o segundo curso do programa Certificado de Gerenciamento de Projetos do Google. Neste curso, você vai ver como mapear um projeto na segunda fase do ciclo de vida do projeto: a fase de planejamento. Você examinará...
$49.00listed price -
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Exploring Renewable Energy Schemes
Offered by University of Pennsylvania
What do you picture when you hear the term “renewable energy?” Do you imagine fields of solar panels, giant windmills, or huge hydroelectric dams? Those are all examples of large-scale, grid-tied systems. In this course,...
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Accounting for Business Decision Making: Strategy Assessment and Control
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Accounting information is the lifeblood of the organization, as it facilitates and influences operational and strategic decisions intended to achieve organizational goals. Organizations benefit from three decision-orient...
$79.00listed price -
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Finance for Technical Managers
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
In Finance for Technical Managers, you will explore the fundamental principles of financial management. Topics include understanding and interpreting a company’s financial statements, the time value of money and its role...
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Financial Analysis - Skills for Success
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
In an era of thriving businesses, both small and large, it is crucial to possess a wholistic understanding of the financial building blocks of a successful organization. Through this 3-course Specialization in Financial...
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Fundamentals of Accounting
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Accounting is the “language of business.” Being able to understand this language allows individuals both inside and outside of an organization to join the “conversation” about how the organization is performing and how i...
$79.00listed price -
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Project Management Project
Offered by University of California, Irvine
This capstone course enables you to apply the project management knowledge and tools developed throughout the Specialization by producing a coherent set of core planning deliverables for a project of your choice or a pro...
$69.00listed price -
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Healthcare Project Management: Fundamentals to Practice
Offered by Minnesota State University, Mankato
This 3-course Specialization prepares you to lead healthcare projects from initiation through evaluation and sustainment. You will learn how to identify project opportunities, define goals and success measures, analyze s...
$49.00listed price -
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Project Management Principles and Practices
Offered by University of California, Irvine
This specialization is a precursor to the Applied Project Management Certificate. Project management has been proven to be the most effective method of delivering products within cost, schedule, and resource constraints....
$49.00listed price -
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Managerial and Cost Accounting
Offered by University of California, Santa Barbara
Build practical skills in managerial and cost accounting to support stronger business decisions. In this course, you’ll learn how organizations use internal accounting information to plan operations, control costs, evalu...
$49.00listed price
Best Budgeting Courses on Coursera compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $79.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $30.00. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 8 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including IBM, Google and University of Pennsylvania — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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