Corporate Finance Essentials will enable you to understand key financial issues related to companies, investors, and the interaction between them in the capital markets. By the end of this course you should be able to understand most of what you read in the financial press and use the essential financial vocabulary of companies and finance professionals.
Corporate Finance Essentials
IESE Business SchoolAbout this Course
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Subtitles: English, Korean, Chinese (Simplified)
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Corporate FinanceFinancial RiskEvaluationInvestment
Learner Career Outcomes
39%
started a new career after completing these courses
37%
got a tangible career benefit from this course
Shareable Certificate
Earn a Certificate upon completion
100% online
Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
Flexible deadlines
Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
Approx. 11 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: English, Korean, Chinese (Simplified)
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IESE Business School
For over fifty years, IESE, the graduate business school of the University of Navarra, has been at the forefront of management education, developing and inspiring business leaders who strive to make a deep, positive and lasting impact on the people, companies and society they serve.
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
10 minutes to complete
Course Overview
10 minutes to complete
1 reading
1 reading
Syllabus10m
2 hours to complete
Risk and Return
Welcome to Session 1 In this session we will discuss some basic but essential financial concepts such as mean return, volatility, and beta. We will also learn how to apply them in order to assess the performance of selected equity markets over the last decade. The learning objective is to understand the basic, essential, and widely used financial concepts.
2 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 66 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz
7 videos
2. Periodic Returns9m
3. Arithmetic and Geometric Mean Returns10m
4. Evidence9m
5. Volatility11m
6. Beta10m
7. A brief recap8m
3 readings
About this session10m
Readings10m
Intro to Quiz 110m
1 practice exercise
Quiz 116m
2 hours to complete
Correlation and Diversification
To understand diversification, an issue at the very heart of most investment decisions, and the role that correlation plays in determining the gains from diversification.
2 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 63 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz
7 videos
2. Portfolio Risk10m
3. The Correlation Coefficient13m
4. The Importance of Correlation3m
5. Diversification and Correlation Part 17m
6. Diversification and Correlation Part 213m
7. Diversification, Correlation and Portfolios8m
3 readings
About this session10m
Readings10m
Intro to Quiz 210m
1 practice exercise
Quiz 216m
2 hours to complete
The CAPM and the Cost of Capital
In this session we will discuss how companies assess their cost of debt, their cost of equity, and ultimately their cost of capital. We will also discuss why this last concept is at the heart of many of the most important corporate decisions.
2 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 78 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz
7 videos
2. Three ways to think about the cost of capital8m
3. Components and notation7m
4. The debt tax shield7m
5. The cost of debt16m
6. The cost of equity10m
7. The CAPM17m
3 readings
About this session10m
Readings10m
Intro to Quiz 310m
1 practice exercise
Quiz 316m
Reviews
TOP REVIEWS FROM CORPORATE FINANCE ESSENTIALS
by VMJul 12, 2019
Being a non-finance background, this course has cleared so many basics and fundamental. Videos are very useful, instructor has tried to make all the concept very simple and easy to understood. Thanks.
by NSMay 22, 2020
The course was very well driven by Javier sir. It was explained in a very simple manner and the complimentary readings and quizzes were very well designed. Enjoyed and learned lots..Thank you!
by ROMar 15, 2019
Professor Estrada has a great ability to break down corporate finance theory in plain language and give practical examples to grasp the essential knowledge that required by a general manager.
by JBJul 30, 2017
This course is an effective and quick way to review the essentials on corporate finance and a good starting point for a more indepth study of the material. Well taught with excellent pacing.
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