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McMaster University

Finance For Everyone: Value

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.

Status: Financial Modeling
Status: Decision Making
Course10 hours

Featured reviews

SS

5.0Reviewed Jul 24, 2020

It was a great course to have insights into how to value a project in industry. Everything is explained in a great way.

MB

5.0Reviewed Jun 1, 2020

Really a good course, everyone have to acquire knowledge in this field

SK

4.0Reviewed Jul 9, 2018

An important crash course on business idea valuation.

AG

5.0Reviewed Nov 30, 2020

Very lucid explanations for complex ideas. Prof Ahmad have really made this course immensely interesting to revisit the topics.

AL

4.0Reviewed Mar 11, 2025

Goes over basics of business and stock valuation. Doesn't cover qualitative methods of estimating valuation. And valuation is not an exact science.

MA

5.0Reviewed Jun 13, 2020

I have learned more concept by attending this course, it was useful to improve my knowledge in finanace

JJ

5.0Reviewed Jul 31, 2017

It is very helpful and interesting course. But you need to understand math. ;)

SS

4.0Reviewed Jun 26, 2020

Productive time spent by learning the course. A helpful course like the topic explains itself.

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