Finance for Everyone: Smart Tools for Decision-Making

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Finance for Everyone: Smart Tools for Decision-Making
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Overview

Learn to apply frameworks and smart tools for understanding and making everyday financial decisions

Duration	6 weeks
Total fee	₹4,916
Mode of learning	Online
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Credential	Certificate

Finance for Everyone: Smart Tools for Decision-Making
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Finance for Everyone: Smart Tools for Decision-Making
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Course details

Skills you will learn

Bonds Risk Management Financial Risk Corporate finance

Who should do this course?

Anyone having basic mathematics concepts knowledge

What are the course deliverables?

An understanding of the financial world, and an appreciation for the beauty and power of finance
Gain the fundamental knowledge, skills, and tools of finance and the ability to apply them everywhere, in personal and professional situations
Different frameworks for decision-making
Acquire skills in using different decision-making tools, and learn to make sound personal and professional financial decisions
The concept of Time Value of Money (TVM) and apply related tools and frameworks to everyday decisions

More about this course

This introductory finance course will be a gateway into the world of finance and will examine multiple applications to apply to your everyday life
You will be able to value the impact of different choices available to you: from renting or buying, evaluating car, home and student loans, or deciding whether to go to college versus pursuing a new idea to simply understanding how the financial world works
Using real world examples, the course will enable you to understand and analyze many personal and professional decisions we confront on a daily basis
You will understand stocks and bonds, learn to allocate scarce resources in a value-add way, and adopt smart tools for making every day decisions

Finance for Everyone: Smart Tools for Decision-Making
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Curriculum

Introduction to Finance

Personal Finance

Investments

Consumer Finance

Financial Risk Management

Finance for Everyone: Smart Tools for Decision-Making
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Faculty details

Gautam Kaul

Gautam Kaul is a Professor of Finance and the Fred M. Taylor Professor of Business at the Ross School of Business (RSB), University of Michigan. Gautam has a Ph.D. from the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago and has published extensively in the top journals in Finance on topics covering a wide spectrum.