Corporate Finance Essentials
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Corporate Finance Essentials at Coursera Overview
Duration | 13 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Corporate Finance Essentials at Coursera Highlights
- This Course Plus the Full Specialization.
- Shareable Certificates.
- Graded Programming Assignments.
Corporate Finance Essentials at Coursera Course details
- Corporate Finance Essentials will enable you to understand key financial issues related to companies, investors, and the interaction between them in the capital markets. By the end of this course you should be able to understand most of what you read in the financial press and use the essential financial vocabulary of companies and finance professionals.
Corporate Finance Essentials at Coursera Curriculum
Course Overview
Syllabus
Risk and Return
1. What is this course all about?
2. Periodic Returns
3. Arithmetic and Geometric Mean Returns
4. Evidence
5. Volatility
6. Beta
7. A brief recap
About this session
Readings
Intro to Quiz 1
Quiz 1
Correlation and Diversification
1. Recap on the Previous Session
2. Portfolio Risk
3. The Correlation Coefficient
4. The Importance of Correlation
5. Diversification and Correlation Part 1
6. Diversification and Correlation Part 2
7. Diversification, Correlation and Portfolios
About this session
Readings
Intro to Quiz 2
Quiz 2
The CAPM and the Cost of Capital
1. What is the cost of capital?
2. Three ways to think about the cost of capital
3. Components and notation
4. The debt tax shield
5. The cost of debt
6. The cost of equity
7. The CAPM
About this session
Readings
Intro to Quiz 3
Quiz 3
Estimating the Cost of Capital - An Application
1. Recap on the previous session
2. Estimating the cost of capital: Starbucks
3. Estimating the cost of capital: Starbucks; A Few Rounding Comments
About this session
Readings
Intro to Quiz 4
Quiz 4
Project Evaluation
1. What is this all about?
2. Introduction to the Net Present Value (NPV)
3. The Net Present Value (NPV)
4. The Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
5. Shortcomings of the IRR
6. Evaluating an investment opportunity
7. Discount rates across countries or divisions
8. Discount rates over time
About this session
Readings
Intro to Quiz 5
Quiz 5
Corporate Value Creation
1. Corporate value creation
2. Growth and return on growth
3. Economic value added (EVA)
4. EVA: Two examples
5. EVA levels versus EVA changes
6. Brief wrap up
About this session
Readings
Intro to Quiz 6
Quiz 6
Final Quiz
Final Quiz Corporate Finance Essentials
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