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About the Course

In this course, you’ll learn the basic fundamentals of corporate finance. Based on the pre-term qualifying courses for Wharton MBA students, Professor Jessica Wachter has designed this course for learners who need a refresher in financial concepts, or for those who are learning about corporate finance for the first time. You’ll identify foundational concepts in corporate finance, such as NPV, Compound and Simple Interest, and Annuities versus Perpetuities. You’ll also learn how to apply the NPV framework to calculating fixed-income valuation and Equity, using hypothetical examples of corporate projects. By the end of this course, you’ll have honed your skills in calculating risk and returns to optimize investments, and be able to assess the right set of financial information to achieve better returns for your firm....

Top reviews

RB

Mar 17, 2024

The teacher is very knowledgeable but sometimes passes some topics too fast and its hard to grasp the concept and the idea. The quizzes are not according to the classes that are given.

CB

Mar 21, 2022

The notes for this course were excellent, and the lectures were concise and easy to follow. Prof. Wachter is easy to listen to and is relaxed and helpful in her explanations.

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By Giselle L

Apr 18, 2023

Too many of the interesting concepts in the course were skipped over and designated as optional for my preference e.g. CAPM. Instead there was an over emphasis on number crunching in the quizzes.

By Alsgren

Dec 13, 2023

Great info, but the questions are notoriously difficult and hard to understand. Most questions arent directly discussed but you have to find the right approach to the questions yourself.

By Connor C

Mar 26, 2022

The rounding for the answers needs to be more clear for certain questions. Also, there are spelling and formatting mistakes in the written notes. But overall, OK

By Lace B

Oct 4, 2022

Classes and notes cover very little of what is actually in the quiz. As it is more difficult to ask questions online I would expect more thorough videos.

By MA X

May 22, 2022

the course itself is great, but sometimes the term used in the video isn't match the one present in the question, which really causes some confusion

By Vaishnavi B

Sep 18, 2021

The lectures were not very comprehensive. In addition, there seem to be quite a few errors in the quiz questions, which create a lot of confusion.

By Erin M

Feb 25, 2022

Smart professor, but not the best at teaching. She just goes through the motions without explaining. Does not seem like an intro course either.

By Antoine F

Mar 7, 2024

Very technical with limited real life example that would be good to highlight the potential for such mathematical load and terminologies.

By ENRIQUE E R T

Apr 7, 2022

The course is good but it could improve some details. Sometimes it get confused in some terms and formulas. But it in general is good.

By Jayesh K

Apr 2, 2024

Missing a feeling of intuition for the Finance and lacking a well structured course delivery/content.

By Agung B S

Sep 26, 2021

Kurangnya soal case yang berat sehingga bagi calon murid baru akan sangat kesusahan memahami.

By Eeshan M

Mar 15, 2021

more real life examples (as in quizzes) should have been explained in the module

By Sourav K

Jun 22, 2021

The content is very nice but the explanation in the videos is not good at all.

By Atin W

Apr 13, 2024

can be improved. difficulty understanding the instructor at several times.

By Yiqi J

Feb 7, 2021

Understand basic concept of corporate finance but not very in-depth.

By Rishit T

Jun 19, 2022

Way too many calculations and the handwriting was sloppy

By Emelia B

Feb 13, 2022

Very hard to follow.

By Elliot L B

Mar 17, 2024

As a beginner I feel as though the concepts were not fully explained by the professor. It would also have been more beneficial if we went through examples of the questions together with the teacher in the videos. In addition, I feel as though the videos were short and rushed. I often found myself having to teach myself the keywords. It was interesting to learn about it, but I am not going to complete the rest of the specialization due to this first course. I believe that this course would be more suited to an intermediate level.

By Terika R

Oct 6, 2022

Compared to the other finance courses within Wharton, this one seemed to over complicate simple concepts and focused too much on theory rather than practical application. I don't think people a really interested in the derivations, just how to use the concepts.

By Renee L

Nov 2, 2023

Class speaker is dry, content is all written and difficult to follow, quizzes have many open ended answers which can cause incorrect responses if not entered exactly to two decimal places.

By Brian K

Feb 14, 2023

Basic concepts are decent but it needs to be 3-4x as long because all the interesting material is in the optional week 5 and constitutes nothing but "additional readings".

By Santiago “

Feb 3, 2024

Broken Courses, No responses in Forums. 2 Stars because there is some content that provides information. Can't advance through though.

By Omri G

Jul 29, 2022

for the unexperience like myself it required a lot more outside research and practice to learn the material.

By Matab M

Aug 3, 2022

How is this beginner ? I actually had knowledge of some concepts and formulas and this course only CONFUSED ME and muddled my knowledge. The notes are terrible and useless. Quiz questions are irrelevent to what is in the videos and the explanantions provide no insight o depth about the concepts. Handwriting is horrible to follow with and the slides are worse. Howe is one to study or review and prepare for thge quizzes that do not make sense and also why are they all written ???? Worst online courses I ever did along with the fact that I did a whole 4-years college degree online.

By Isabella

Aug 7, 2022

Not really for beginners, the lecturer assumes we already know many terms and the formulas are just thrown at the student. The exercises are way too difficult, the lectures are not enough to solve the exercices, I could not finish the course given there is no support or explanation for the exercises and the class notes are not helpful.