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.
Acerca de este Curso
4.8
909 calificaciones
Habilidades que obtendrás
Corporate FinanceFinancial RiskEvaluationInvestment
Programa - Qué aprenderás en este curso
Semana
1Course Overview
Overall Syllabus
1 reading
1 lectura
Syllabus10m
Semana
2Risk 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 videos (Total 66 minutos), 3 readings, 1 quiz
7 videos
2. Periodic Returns9m
3. Arithmetic and Geometric Mean Returns10m
4. Evidence9m
5. Volatility11m
6. Beta10m
7. A brief recap8m
3 lecturas
About this session10m
Readings10m
Intro to Quiz 110m
1 ejercicio de práctica
Quiz 116m
Semana
3Correlation 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 videos (Total 63 minutos), 3 readings, 1 quiz
7 videos
2. Portfolio Risk10m
3. The Correlation Coefficient13m
4. The Importance of Correlation3m
5. Diversification and Correlation Part 17m
6. Diversification and Correlation Part 213m
7. Diversification, Correlation and Portfolios8m
3 lecturas
About this session10m
Readings10m
Intro to Quiz 210m
1 ejercicio de práctica
Quiz 216m
Semana
4The 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 videos (Total 78 minutos), 3 readings, 1 quiz
7 videos
2. Three ways to think about the cost of capital8m
3. Components and notation7m
4. The debt tax shield7m
5. The cost of debt16m
6. The cost of equity10m
7. The CAPM17m
3 lecturas
About this session10m
Readings10m
Intro to Quiz 310m
1 ejercicio de práctica
Quiz 316m
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comenzó una nueva carrera después de completar estos cursos
39%
consiguió un beneficio tangible en su carrera profesional gracias a este curso
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consiguió un aumento de sueldo o ascenso
Principales revisiones
por JB•Jul 31st 2017
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.
por SP•Oct 7th 2018
Way better than expected. The best thing about this course is the supplementary notes that comes along with each session, dwells deeps into the topic and gives a tight grasp on each session
Instructor
Javier Estrada
Professor of Financial ManagementDepartment of Financial Management
Acerca de IESE Business School
For over fifty years, IESE, the graduate business school of the University of Navarra, has been at the forefront of management education, developing and inspiring business leaders who strive to make a deep, positive and lasting impact on the people, companies and society they serve.
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