Finance For Everyone: Value

Finance For Everyone: Value

This course is part of Finance for Everyone Specialization

Instructor: Arshad Ahmad

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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1 week to complete

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There are 4 modules in this course

In Value, you will explore the most powerful generator of value in the world – ideas. Ideas are the engines of productivity, both in the private and public sectors. You will learn about the universal frameworks that determine how ideas and money interact, leading to the allocation of financial resources. We will identify components of cash flow for any project, business or venture as the most essential ingredients of value. We also assess the investment techniques used to give life to some ideas while killing others. This course will help you understand pricing, diversification, uncertainty and even behavioural approaches to dealing with risk. Using Nobel Prize-winning insights, you will learn how to measure the size of the risk premium and build valuation models. We’ll even connect evidence-based science with common-sense analysis to give you better tools for understanding why values are what they are, and for positioning yourself more effectively to participate in financial markets. You will be immersed in case based learning to integrate some of the powerful frameworks introduced in Value.

Welcome! This first week will engage you in investigating how value is created, distributed and destroyed, and will enable you to utilize different techniques for assessing the value of existing or potential investments. You will make connections between Value and concepts in the prior two courses of this Specialization, share (potentially valuable!) good ideas with your fellow learners, and communicate your new insights with the world.

What's included

3 videos6 readings3 assignments2 discussion prompts

3 videos Total 41 minutes

Trailer: World Events, Turbulence, and Your Money 4 minutes
Introduction to Finance for Everyone: Value 11 minutes
Investment Techniques 26 minutes

6 readings Total 60 minutes

F4E Specialization Snapshot 10 minutes
Course Outline 10 minutes
Where are our learners from? 10 minutes
Keeping a Learning Portfolio 10 minutes
LearnSmart: What it is and how to use it 10 minutes
LearnSmart: Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria (optional) 10 minutes

3 assignments Total 90 minutes

F4E: Value Introductory Survey 30 minutes
Investment Techniques 30 minutes
Making a Difference 1 30 minutes

2 discussion prompts Total 20 minutes

Participant Introductions & F4E Insights 10 minutes
What's the Big Idea? 10 minutes

This week, we investigate cash flows! By week’s end, you will be able to explain its wide-ranging importance, employ critical assumptions to make decisions about potential investments, and utilize components used to analyze an existing or proposed idea. Furthermore, you will apply these skills to the first case of this Specialization and engage with your peers in discussion to collaboratively work through this scenario!

What's included

3 videos3 readings3 assignments2 discussion prompts

3 videos Total 55 minutes

Cash Flow Assumptions 14 minutes
Cash Flow Components 26 minutes
Introduction to the Mini-Case 15 minutes

3 readings Total 30 minutes

LearnSmart Chapter 10: Making Capital Investment Decisions (Strongly Recommend) 10 minutes
Cash Flow Components Chart - Before and After 10 minutes
Mini-Case Challenge 10 minutes

3 assignments Total 90 minutes

Cash Flow Assumptions 30 minutes
Cash Flow Components 30 minutes
Making a Difference 2 30 minutes

2 discussion prompts Total 20 minutes

Failed Ideas 10 minutes
Mini-Case Challenge Discussion Thread 10 minutes

In week 3, you will begin to explore the big picture themes of market perfection and market correction. Within the context of these broad themes, you will contrast financial theory with financial practice, explain price convergence and divergence, and discern between the roles of risk and uncertainty in valuation. You will also take up the solution to the mini-case presented in week 2!

What's included

2 videos1 reading1 assignment1 discussion prompt

In this final week of F4E: Value, you will continue exploring market perfection and correction. You will interpret financial data, determine your opinion on the possibility of an upcoming market correction, and identify strategies you can use to protect yourself from turbulence. You will also reexamine your big idea from week 1, share your biggest takeaways from the course, and look ahead to F4E: Debt.