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Overview

Duration

8 hours

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Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

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Corporate Finance Essentials II
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Highlights

  • This Course Plus the Full Specialization
  • Shareable Certificates
  • Graded Programming Assignments
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  • This course picks up where Corporate Finance Essentials left, addressing other corporate finance issues not addressed in the previous course, such as market efficiency, bonds, stocks, capital structure, and dividend policy
  • This course will help participatns to:
  • Understanding the concept of market efficiency
  • Get an overview in issues related to bonds, such as type of bonds, their return (yield to maturity) and default risk
  • Getting to know the valuation of stocks through the method of relative valuation (multiples)
  • Knowing what are the sources that financial companies use to obtain capital for their projects
  • Understanding two of the most critical decisions companies need to make: whether to pay dividends and if so, how much

Corporate Finance Essentials II
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Curriculum

Course overview: A Look Back & a Look Ahead to Corporate Finance Essentials

Professor's Biography

Introduction

Risk and return

Correlation and Diversification

The CAPM and the Cost of Capital

Estimating the Cost of Capital

Project Evaluation

Corporate Value Creation

A Look Ahead to Corporate Finance Essentials II

Syllabus

Market Efficiency

Market Efficiency

Factors determining Market Efficiency

A Myth

Levels of Efficiency

Fundamental and Technical Analysis

Four Important Points

Beating the Market

Investing

The bottom Line

Market Efficiency

Bonds

Bonds. Introduction

Bond Issuers and Bond Types

A Simple Example

Valuation

Valuation. Case Study

The Yield to Maturity

The Yield to Maturity. Case Study

Risk. Default Risk

Risk. Other sources of bond risk

The Bottom Line

The Essential Finantial Toolkit

Bonds

Stocks

The Basics

Multiples. Two critical issues

Multiples. The P/E Ratio

Multiples. Benchmarks

Multiples. The Critical Question

Multiples. The PEG Ratio

Case Study. Part 1

Case Study. Part 2

The Bottom Line

The Essential Financial Toolkit. Multiples

Stocks

Capital Structure

Capital Structure. The Basics

Debt Ratios and Required Returns

Case Study

Reflections

Two Final Points

The Bottom Line

Capital Structure

Dividend Policy

Dividend Policy. The Basics

Relevant variables. Environment

Relevant variables. Clienteles and Growth

Relevant variables. Smoothing

Relevant variables. Signals and Taxes

Share Buybacks

The Bottom Line

Corporate Finance Essentials II: Wrap Up

Dividend Policy

Corporate Finance Essentials II

Corporate Finance Essentials II
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Admission Process

    Important Dates

    May 25, 2024
    Course Commencement Date

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