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.
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1完成时间为 10 分钟
Course Overview
Overall Syllabus
1 个阅读材料
1 个阅读材料
Syllabus10分钟
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2完成时间为 2 小时
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.
7 个视频 （总计 66 分钟）, 3 个阅读材料, 1 个测验
7 个视频
2. Periodic Returns9分钟
3. Arithmetic and Geometric Mean Returns10分钟
4. Evidence9分钟
5. Volatility11分钟
6. Beta10分钟
7. A brief recap8分钟
3 个阅读材料
About this session10分钟
Readings10分钟
Intro to Quiz 110分钟
1 个练习
Quiz 116分钟
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3完成时间为 2 小时
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.
7 个视频 （总计 63 分钟）, 3 个阅读材料, 1 个测验
7 个视频
2. Portfolio Risk10分钟
3. The Correlation Coefficient13分钟
4. The Importance of Correlation3分钟
5. Diversification and Correlation Part 17分钟
6. Diversification and Correlation Part 213分钟
7. Diversification, Correlation and Portfolios8分钟
3 个阅读材料
About this session10分钟
Readings10分钟
Intro to Quiz 210分钟
1 个练习
Quiz 216分钟
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4完成时间为 2 小时
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.
7 个视频 （总计 78 分钟）, 3 个阅读材料, 1 个测验
7 个视频
2. Three ways to think about the cost of capital8分钟
3. Components and notation7分钟
4. The debt tax shield7分钟
5. The cost of debt16分钟
6. The cost of equity10分钟
7. The CAPM17分钟
3 个阅读材料
About this session10分钟
Readings10分钟
Intro to Quiz 310分钟
1 个练习
Quiz 316分钟
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5完成时间为 2 小时
Estimating the Cost of Capital - An Application
In this session we will put to work all the concepts discussed in the previous session by estimating the cost of capital of a company. As usual, when putting theory into practice, a few complications arise and we will discuss how to deal with them.
3 个视频 （总计 47 分钟）, 3 个阅读材料, 1 个测验
3 个视频
2. Estimating the cost of capital: Starbucks15分钟
3. Estimating the cost of capital: Starbucks; A Few Rounding Comments13分钟
3 个阅读材料
About this session10分钟
Readings10分钟
Intro to Quiz 410分钟
1 个练习
Quiz 416分钟
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6完成时间为 2 小时
Project Evaluation
In this session we will discuss how companies routinely decide whether or not to invest in projects. We will discuss the two tools most widely used for this purpose, NPV and IRR, and apply them to the evaluation of an investment opportunity.
8 个视频 （总计 76 分钟）, 3 个阅读材料, 1 个测验
8 个视频
2. Introduction to the Net Present Value (NPV)7分钟
3. The Net Present Value (NPV)7分钟
4. The Internal Rate of Return (IRR)15分钟
5. Shortcomings of the IRR9分钟
6. Evaluating an investment opportunity9分钟
7. Discount rates across countries or divisions6分钟
8. Discount rates over time11分钟
3 个阅读材料
About this session10分钟
Readings10分钟
Intro to Quiz 510分钟
1 个练习
Quiz 516分钟
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7完成时间为 2 小时
Corporate Value Creation
In this session we will discuss EVA, a tool widely used to assess whether a company is creating or destroying value. We will also put this tool into practice by estimating the EVA of two companies.
6 个视频 （总计 67 分钟）, 3 个阅读材料, 1 个测验
6 个视频
2. Growth and return on growth12分钟
3. Economic value added (EVA)13分钟
4. EVA: Two examples14分钟
5. EVA levels versus EVA changes11分钟
6. Brief wrap up4分钟
3 个阅读材料
About this session10分钟
Readings10分钟
Intro to Quiz 610分钟
1 个练习
Quiz 616分钟
4.8
285 个审阅36%
完成这些课程后已开始新的职业生涯
34%
通过此课程获得实实在在的工作福利
12%
加薪或升职
热门审阅
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.
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.
讲师
Javier Estrada
Professor of Financial ManagementDepartment of Financial Management
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