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Corporate Finance: A Beginner’s Guide by Futurelearn
Master the fundamentals of corporate finance as you learn how to use tools and techniques to increase the value of your business.
Course Highlights
- Apply key financial analysis tools and techniques (reformulations, ratios, …) to understand a firm overall performance over time and across comparables.
- Apply the concepts of time value of money, present value, future value, and other basic tools of corporate finance.
- Calculate net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), payback period, profitability index to evaluate projects.
- Interpret the basic trade-off between risk and return in corporate finance and estimate the cost of capital.
- Evaluate a firm’s capital structure, determine the optimal debt-equity position and dividend policy
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
5 Topics
Introduction to the course
Reformulation choices
Ratio analysis
Cash flow statement
Wrapping it up!
4 Topics
Time value of money
Annuities and perpetuities
Interest rates
Wrapping it up!
4 Topics
Types of risk
Risk and return
The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
Wrapping it up!
5 Topics
Investment decisions
Cashflow construction
Cost structure
A classic case of investment decisions
Wrapping it up!
4 Topics
Funding alternatives
Modigliani-Miller propositions
Dividend policy
Wrapping it up!
Corporate Finance: A Beginner’s Guide
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