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Fundamentals of Finance for the Technical Executive
 at 
MIT University 
Overview

This program will help transform a technical manager's ability to manage and advocate

Duration

3 days

Total fee

3.12 Lakh

Mode of learning

Online

Course Level

UG Certificate

Fundamentals of Finance for the Technical Executive
 at 
MIT University 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management
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Fundamentals of Finance for the Technical Executive
 at 
MIT University 
Course details

Who should do this course?
  • For CIOs
  • For Chief technologists
  • For Head scientists
  • For R&D and product development directors
  • For Engineering and manufacturing vice presidents
  • For Corporate strategists
  • For Project managers
  • For Systems information managers
What are the course deliverables?
  • Understand how funding decisions are made and how they can influence those decisions by applying financial principles to project evaluation and resource allocation
  • Learn how to assess projects for their potential economic value
  • Conduct discounted cash flow (DCF) valuations
More about this course
  • Course curriculum focuses on the fundamentals of finance and financial principles for project evaluation, funding, and resource allocation, helping leaders to work more effectively with financial decision makers and apply the principles of finance to short-term and long-range goals
  • Today's technical executive must be able to use finance to persuade corporate financial officers to fund projects as well as use financial tools to address senior management's concerns about risk
  • This course provides senior technical managers with the financial concepts, strategies, and tools needed to deal more effectively with corporate financial management
  • Students will learn how funding decisions are made and how they can influence those decisions by applying financial principles to project evaluation and resource allocation
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Fundamentals of Finance for the Technical Executive
 at 
MIT University 
Curriculum

DAY 1

Introduction to Corporate Finance

Basic concepts of finance

Review of accounting basics

Financial statement analysis and forecasting

Introduction to Project Valuation

Fundamental principles of finance

Discounted cash flows (DCF)

Arbitrage and market efficiency

Present value and asset valuation

DAY 2

Project valuation, free cash flows

Estimation of free cash flows with accounting data

Molycorp mini-case: project valuation and sensitivity analysis

Project Financing

Projecting future funding needs

The concept of sustainable growth; the tension between product-market strategy and financial policies.

Case: Wilson Lumber

Project Financing, continued

Capital Budgeting and Management

Alternative capital budgeting rules: IRR, payback, multiples

DCF versus the alternatives: pros and cons

Bringing it together: the Airbus A3XX case

Project Financing in an Uncertain World

Incorporating uncertainty: real options

Sensitivity and scenario analysis

Investment staging and management

Case: Genzyme/Geltex joint venture

DAY 3

Project Financing in an Uncertain World, continued

Genzyme/Geltex case, concluded

Wrap-up and adjournment

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Fundamentals of Finance for the Technical Executive
 at 
MIT University 
Faculty details

Paul F. Mende
Paul Mende is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Mende co-founded, co-owned, and served as director of research from 2002 to 2010 for Fort Hill Capital Management, LLC, a hedge fund specializing in equity derivatives and dedicated to quantitative research, trading, and risk management.
Leonid Kogan
Leonid Kogan is the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Professor of Management and a Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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