This course provides a brief introduction to the fundamentals of finance, emphasizing their application to a wide variety of real-world situations spanning personal finance, corporate decision-making, and financial intermediation. Key concepts and applications include: time value of money, risk-return tradeoff, cost of capital, interest rates, retirement savings, mortgage financing, auto leasing, capital budgeting, asset valuation, discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, net present value, internal rate of return, hurdle rate, payback period.
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Skills you will gain
- Discounted Cash Flow
- Decision-Making
- Corporate Finance
- Cash Flow Analysis
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week 1: Time Value of Money
Week 2: Interest Rates
Week 3: Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
Week 4: Return on Investment
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- 5 stars69.37%
- 4 stars22.12%
- 3 stars5.74%
- 2 stars1.60%
- 1 star1.15%
TOP REVIEWS FROM INTRODUCTION TO CORPORATE FINANCE
Having spent the most of my 20 year career full time in corporate finance i was pleasantly surprised to have new perspectives and takeaway points on key aspects on the subject. Highly recommended
This is a nice introductory course but it seems very light on material, especially what you are paying for. Believe it should be more thorough and cover more topics. Michael Roberts was great.
Course was good to understand the overall concepts, however few terms like from where exactly the discount rates come from, concept of cost of capital, how the assumptions in values are made etc
Concepts are explained really well! And I appreciate the helpful hints during the module tests - they really help to connect the practical examples and language to the respective equations.
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