Business Finance
offered by International Institute for Management Development

Private University
1 Campus
Estd. 1990

Business Finance
at
IMD
Overview

Understand the key concepts that underpin accounting

Duration	5 weeks
Total fee	₹1.56 Lakh
Mode of learning	Online
Course Level	UG Certificate

Business Finance
at
IMD
Highlights

Earn a certificate of completion from IMD Switzerland
Learn from 30 videos, 3 business cases

Business Finance
at
IMD
Course details

Skills you will learn

Excel Budgeting Valuation Capital Budgeting Accounting Corporate finance Forecasting

Who should do this course?

For non-financial manager
For business executives

What are the course deliverables?

Assess risk and investment opportunities accurately
Discover better ways to mitigate risk when structuring capital projects
Improve your organization's operational and financial performance

More about this course

Business Finance gives you a clear understanding of your own company's financials - and the impact you can make on them
You will become comfortable with financial statements and financial analysis, and able to make valid risk assessments of competing expenditures and cost-reduction projects
Equipped with a new financial tool-set, you will formulate strategies that maximize value for your organization

Business Finance
at
IMD
Curriculum

Unit 1: Financial statements: The language of business

Understand key accounting concepts

Obtain an overview of main financial statements

Apply theory to financial statements

Unit 2: Financial analysis, ratios and return on invested capital

Learn how to evaluate company performance

Discuss managerial implications of financial analysis

Unit 3: Risk, return and weighted average cost of capital

Examine the relationship between risk and return

Acquire knowledge about capital asset pricing, credit spreads and company beta

Calculate weighted average cost of capital (WACC)

Unit 4: Capital budgeting and project valuation

Understand project valuation criteria

Assess investment options

Forecast cash flows in real projects

Develop project valuation models in Excel

Perform sensitivity analysis

Unit 5: Capital structure and financing strategies

Evaluate different capital structures, associated risks and benefits

Explore implications for raising capital and valuation

Business Finance
at
IMD
Faculty details

Salvatore Cantale

Salvatore Cantale is Professor of Finance at IMD. His major research and consulting interests are in value creation, valuation, and the way in which corporations build structure liabilities and choose financing options.