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About the Course

This course provides a brief introduction to the fundamentals of finance, emphasizing their application to a wide variety of real-world situations spanning personal finance, corporate decision-making, and financial intermediation. Key concepts and applications include: time value of money, risk-return tradeoff, cost of capital, interest rates, retirement savings, mortgage financing, auto leasing, capital budgeting, asset valuation, discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, net present value, internal rate of return, hurdle rate, payback period....

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ZZ

Sep 26, 2021

An excellent course overall. I really enjoyed the learning experience and look forward to more courses from Wharton. Special thanks to professor Michael Roberts for providing great value in 1 course.

LL

Oct 21, 2016

The professor is very patient, he spends a lot of time making sense of the equations and the calculation process, which helps me comprehend the concepts and their application really a lot. Thank you!

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By Alexander V

Nov 17, 2022

Good course in combination with the accounting course also offered by Wharton. There was some overlap between topics but I actually enjoyed that aspect since it tied some elements together. Some of the videos need some light editing but the over content was straight-forward and to-the-point.

By Camille H

Oct 15, 2017

I've learned a lot and am now more aware of some technical aspects of finance. I was however expecting more general knowledge (more like a beginner's class) rather than tool to use on an everyday basis.

At the end it does become quite a bit hard to follow and agregate all the formulas together.

By Sri

Aug 5, 2016

Material was interesting and engaging. Sometimes the professor skips over material assuming the learner to understand where he is coming from and uses terms without defining them. Could be improved with more examples and more practice so it is not so abstract, especially in the last module.

By Din-Magomed I

Apr 15, 2021

I liked the instructor and the course overall. However, there are issues on the quizzes - some answer options listed in the quizzes are incorrect. Hence, you can't get the higher grade even if you know the right answer. Please fix those technical issues. Other than that, all is good.

By Iqra T

Nov 3, 2021

The course provided a comprehensive introduction to corporate finance and the instructor illustrated the concepts very well. However, I have issues with the quizzes. In the quizzes of almost every module, some mcqs did not have the correct answer as option, which affected my grade.

By Patrick R

Aug 6, 2017

Great, informative class that I felt as though I learned a lot of theoretical and practical applications. My only criticism is that the problem sets were short and did not test the concepts in much depth and when an answer was incorrect, did not receive any feedback regarding why

By Jevgenija P

Mar 15, 2021

Very good and informative course. For the quiz questions - it seems that some of the multiple choice answers are wrong, and there are no responses in the Forums from faculty to help answer these. Otherwise, very practical course and directly relevant for my job. Thanks for this!

By Claude S

Nov 28, 2020

Overall solid introductory course to corp finance. Pity that multiple choice quizzes seem to have several instances where all answers are wrong, and then to top it off, the final specialization certificate has grammar error/typo. Expected a bit more from Wharton certification!

By Raymond E

Nov 30, 2020

This course was helpful in understanding business analysis processes, but the quiz quality (numerous questions had NO correct answer options, including two on the final quiz) should be addressed. These were reported by numerous students and really impacts the class quality.

By Victor C F

Sep 9, 2021

The explanations from the professor are really good and for those of use without a finance background, the lessons are simple to follow. I would only increase a bit the difficulty of the exercises to make them more challenging, but in the end, the concepts are proven.

By KUMAR V 1

May 21, 2020

The content of this course is very useful and you get to know many knowledgeable tools of finance in corporate worlds and investment banks. I personally feel if the explanation was more inclusive and easy, it would have eliminated confusions and time consumption.

By Lu L

Nov 13, 2018

Useful tool, though I think we need to extend the length of the course or combine this course with Financial Accounting. Financial accounting is a basis for corporate finance, however without the real application of financial accounting, that course is so boring.

By Mukhtar A

Mar 8, 2022

It's a great course and the professor is engaging. I wish that in the second last lecture he went over how to use spreadsheets a bit more in detail, or had a lecture dedicated to the tutorial. The annoying thing about the course are the errors in the quizzes.

By Priyank D

Jun 17, 2020

The last week was very exciting and I was expecting to see more complex problems in the quiz but unfortunately quiz isnt very challenging. The same is true for all the quiz. It would be great to have addition optional advance quiz like "honors optional"

By Ajit S

Apr 17, 2016

The course is named appropriately as it only gives an introduction and not a detailed view. But there is only one course about finance in this specialization, therefore it could be made more rigorous to cover-up for the lack of advanced followup course.

By Xintian S

Feb 5, 2018

It would be nice if the quiz has detailed solutions, since you wouldn't know how you did that wrong at the end. But the forum session is definitely helpful. Week 4 material is kind of jumped too much from previous ones. great course for beginner.

By Antoine F

Mar 7, 2024

Great course that explains the key corporate finance concepts. Quizzes are very easy and the course would benefit from a quizz with a more in depth example like the one presented for the tablet compared to calculate quickly many very basic NPVs/IRRs.

By Sumedha G

Oct 27, 2021

The course was excellent with good quality videos and slides. The content was easy to understand and enriching. However, the quizzes after each module have incorrect answers to few questions and should be verified to reduce inconvenience to students.

By Cornelis H

Feb 17, 2021

The teacher used clear sheets and explained the material well. Unfortunately, there was a lot of overlap with the first course of the 'Introduction to Finance and Accounting Specialization' and the difficulty of the material was not very high for me.

By Veeral M

Mar 6, 2016

Having minimal financial background, this course helped me understand certain principles that i come across as a consultant in my day to day life. I would highly recommend this course for anyone who wants to understand the basics of DCF, NPV and IRR

By Abigail H

Dec 20, 2020

The learning videos are clear. On Quiz 3, it is necessary to reference previous questions to calculate the answers and that was not clear. It took me a while to figure it out, and there should be something that said "From question 1, calculate...".

By Jean-Philippe M

May 7, 2020

I wish the sensitivity analysis and return of investment were followed with some more in depth excel teaching on how the examples results were generated. Furthermore I would have enjoyed some practical exercises associated to that topic as well.

By Nienke T

Nov 1, 2017

Corporate finance is not one of my strengths and I find the material a bit dry at times, but with your clear explanations I passed all my problem sets with 100% (even if sometimes it required a second try and studying again). Thank you!

By Thomas T

Oct 10, 2021

Good introduction to corporate decision making, basic formulas, compounding, discounting, NPV, IRR, sensitivity analysis at a high level, quizzes are fairly easy and straight forward and he tends to ask the same question repeatedly.

By Alessio P

Nov 11, 2017

Very clear exposition of the material and pdf slides extremely helpful as a reference. Great build up from the initial basic subjects to the final ones on decision making.

Very clear to understand and get the main concepts clearly.