In this course you will learn how to use key finance principles to understand and measure business success and to identify and promote true value creation. You will learn how to use accounting information to form key financial ratios to measure a company’s financial health and to manage a company's short-term and long-term liquidity needs. You will also learn how to use valuation techniques to make sound business investment and acquisition decisions. Finally, you will learn how to incorporate risk and uncertainty into investment decisions and how to evaluate the performance of existing investments.
This course is part of the Financial Management Specialization

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- Mergers And Acquisitions (M&A)
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Course Overview
Module 1: The Objective and Language of Corporate Finance
Module 2: Financial Planning
Module 3: Making Investment Decisions
Module 4: Mergers and Acquisitions, Risk, and Performance Evaluation
Course Conclusion
Reviews
- 5 stars81.11%
- 4 stars15.34%
- 3 stars1.39%
- 2 stars0.74%
- 1 star1.39%
TOP REVIEWS FROM CORPORATE FINANCE I: MEASURING AND PROMOTING VALUE CREATION
The finance series are some of the best business classes I have taken. Professor Almeida does a fantastic job in teaching Corporate Finance. Highly recommended!
Good coverage of basic concepts of Corporate finance. Not much suitable for professionals / CA looking out for advanced knowledge as we have already studied 90% of what is being taught here.
This course has almost too much information to grasp all the concepts in a four week period. It is a lot of work! I thought it was taught very well for the most part.
Very impressive course with immediate applicable knowledge. I will be using NPV to calculate everything including whether to get Solar for my home or not ;).
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