Introduction to Corporate Finance

Colleagues, the Introduction to Corporate Finance program introduces the fundamentals of finance, emphasizing their application to a wide variety of real-world situations spanning personal finance, corporate decision-making, and financial intermediation. Key concepts and applications include: time value of money, risk-return tradeoff, cost of capital, interest rates, retirement savings, mortgage financing, auto leasing, capital budgeting, asset valuation, discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, net present value, internal rate of return, hurdle rate, payback period. Gain high-demand skills in Discounted Cash Flow, Decision-Making, Corporate Finance and Cash Flow Analysis. Training modules include: 1) Time Value of Money - This first module will introduce you to one of the most important foundational concepts in Finance, the time value of money. Before diving into the Video lectures, I encourage you to take a look at the brief pre-reading for the course. Specifically, have a look at “Big Picture Course Motivation,” for additional motivation and context for the course, “Time Value of Money Overview,” for a motivation and context for our first topic, and “Quiz Problem Answer Input.”, 2) Interest Rates - with a discussion of inflation before moving on to our second topic, Interest Rates, and introducing our third topic, Discounted Cash Flow Analysis. By the end of this module, you should feel comfortable with discounting and compounding arbitrary cash flow streams in order to value different claims and make better financial decisions, 3) Discounted Cash Flow Analysis -  a capital budgeting case. (You might want to download or view the Excel file, “Tablet Case Spreadsheet.xlsx,” that I use in the lectures, but it is not necessary for understanding the material.) By the end of this module, you should feel comfortable valuing claims and making financing decisions in which the timing of the cash flows and compounding of interest is arbitrary (e.g., annual, semi-quarterly, monthly, etc.),  and 4) Return on Investment - caps off the course with a discussion of return on investment. You will be comfortable with the notion of free cash flow and the ability to apply a set of forecast drivers to project free cash flows into the future. 

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Much career success, Lawrence E. Wilson - Financial Certification Academy