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UBCx: Introduction to Corporate Finance

Learn how to make better corporate investment decisions to create value for your business.

Introduction to Corporate Finance
6 weeks
3–5 hours per week
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
This course is archived
Future dates to be announced

About this course

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This course will provide a general understanding of financial valuation, quantitative analysis of individual and corporate financing, and savings/investment decisions.

You will learn how to evaluate what an asset is worth, and how a variety of tools can help investors and managers make investment decisions. These tools include:

  • Models such as the Gordon Growth Model and the 2-stage Dividend Discount Model;
  • Programs such as Excel and a financial calculator;
  • Formulas such as annuity, perpetuity, and growing perpetuity.

You will explore the time value of money and learn how investors value streams of cash flows that arrive at different times.

We will also discuss risk and return characteristics of different marketable securities, consider what it means for an investment to be risky, and examine methods of valuing assets.

At a glance

  • Language: English
  • Video Transcript: English
  • Associated skills:Cash Flows, Investment Decisions, Annuities, Corporate Finance, Quantitative Analysis, Securities (Finance), Investments, Dividend Discount Models, Time Value Of Money

What you'll learn

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  • How to evaluate the financial benefits associated with investment decisions
  • How investors value streams of cash flows that arrive at different times
  • What an asset is ‘worth’ and what tools you need to make the best investment decision about it
  • How firms evaluate and compare capital investment projects

Who can take this course?

Unfortunately, learners residing in one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. edX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.

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