Corporate Finance: A Beginner’s Guide

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Corporate Finance: A Beginner’s Guide
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Overview

Master the fundamentals of corporate finance as you learn how to use tools and techniques to increase the value of your business.

Duration	5 weeks
Total fee	₹2,763
Mode of learning	Online
Difficulty level	Beginner
Credential	Certificate

Corporate Finance: A Beginner’s Guide
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Highlights

Earn a certificate from University of Padova

Corporate Finance: A Beginner’s Guide
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Course details

Skills you will learn

Capital Budgeting Budgeting Corporate finance CAPM

More about this course

Understanding the basics of corporate finance is key in making the right financial decisions. Armed with this knowledge, you can identify investment opportunities, attract investors, and increase the value of your organisation.
On this five-week course, you'll gain critical skills to leverage corporate finance tools and techniques to make sound financial decisions.
You'll practise on real-world examples to gain practical skills in financial analysis, investment decisions, and more.
First, you'll learn fundamental financial analysis skills to evaluate profitability, performance, and stability.
This will help you make data-driven decisions using key metrics like revenue growth, profit margins, and cash flow.
Next, you'll explore risk and return models to understand the risk-return tradeoff in corporate finance.
This knowledge will help you estimate the cost of capital as you delve into the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to learn how to optimise a portfolio's returns.
Then, you'll master capital budgeting to help you understand your organisation's cash in flows and cash outflows.
With this knowledge, you'll have the finance skills to make strategic decisions that will increase the value of your organisation.
Finally, you'll explore the different types of funding companies use to grow their business.
You'll learn the difference between debt and equity and how they mix, as well as how different payout policies affect the value of a company.
This knowledge will help you make sound funding decisions.