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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....

Top reviews

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 prem

Sep 5, 2017

An amazing course for someone who is a beginner. The main idea for doing this was to get some idea about finance before joining business school since i am from a technical background

By Douglas C

Oct 8, 2020

Dear Professor Michael,

Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with us. It would had been 5 stars if there were exercises to practice each lesson on the Coursera platform.

By Sahil K

Apr 19, 2020

The first 2 modules and the last module was great. Third module can be made bit more interesting and easy to grasp for someone from non finance background. Overall a good course

By Vignesh

Mar 15, 2020

It is very use full for me.and to improve my knowledge about finance.Now i know about some methods in finance like time value money,interest rates,etc. It good platform for me

By Naman B

Mar 9, 2020

The course got a little bit messy during the tablet period. Otherwise, the course is a solid course but, you need to keep brushing up the topics to take the maximum advantage.

By João B S d S

Sep 10, 2021

Course would benefit with the addition of some more example exercises to tie things together; even if just as reading material.

Great Professor with great attention to detail.

By Matteo S

Sep 17, 2018

Great course, would be helpful a bit more coaching for the quizs, would be nice to be able to review the wrong answers and understand what is the right reasoning to apply.

By Roberto V

Jan 3, 2016

Good course but it would be better if we could see the correct answers to the problem sets at some point to see if we got the wrong answer or it was a formatting problem.

By Inga M

Jun 10, 2020

The course is very educational but I wish the professor would explain problems in more detail. It was a bit hard to understand some of the reasoning behind the answers.

By Sparsh J

Aug 7, 2021

Good content, but during week 4 the level rises really fast and it gets hard to understand certain concepts. It would be better to have gradual increase in difficulty.

By SHIVANG G

Mar 4, 2016

Excellent course for the beginners. it introduces us to what all resides in corporate finance and teaches us some very crucial and important terms like NPV, IRR, etc.

By Jeremy R

Jul 15, 2020

The course was very understandable and put together well. It would be nice to have the formulas listed in excel. After all, many forecasts are still done in excel.

By Jain P

Dec 20, 2015

Very well presented course. The professor explained the concepts quite well. I would be interested in doing a course that goes into more depth of Corporate Finance.

By shaik a

Aug 21, 2021

Great content ,Great teacher ,but needed little more elaborated explanation in last two weeks of content(Forecast drivers, decision criteria) for beginners .

By guerezebanga m

Mar 18, 2016

le cours était bien mené.

mon seul regret est que j'aurais aimé plsu d'exercices et d'exemple diversifié .

cependant très bon cour les notion sont assz claires

By Ray

Apr 14, 2016

This is so far the best course I've had in Coursera. Theory is very useful and the teaching method is very clear. All cases are helpful and link to reality.

By Thiago P

Jul 28, 2021

Some of the problems on the tasks did not have the right answer (I hope that is the reason I could not solve some that had the same structure as others :D)

By Daniel H

Oct 16, 2018

Although a bit challenge, the material and its usefulness is valuable. Teacher Michael Roberts presented the course very good and explained things clearly.

By Sam A

Jan 4, 2016

Good course to take. Some times the lectures good into too many details too quickly. Especially lectures on week 3. I recommend the course nonetheless.

By Ricardo R

Jul 22, 2016

Pretty good introduction to Finance. Coverage of CF analysis is pretty good. My only recommendation to improve is to include an intro to financial ratios.

By Saurav B

Jan 1, 2016

it was good...bt too much of technical methods used to make us understand, that can make things more complicated for understanding for an average student.

By Clayton H

Oct 2, 2023

A short course that does exactly what it sets out to accomplish. Introduce learners to corporate finance. Great professor with well-articulated lectures.

By diana o c n

Oct 9, 2016

I learnt a lot. It started with the basic and taught you what are the essential points in this subjet in order to analyze if you should invest or not.

By Erin M

May 26, 2016

Nice course, but would have loved to see the explanation of the financial calculator short cuts...much easier and applicable to real world experiences.

By Pauline T

Feb 16, 2016

Good lectures. Gain good insights on some of the finance terms.

The course could be more effective if the quiz questions are more challenging.

Thanks !