This course is designed to show you how use quantitative models to transform data into better business decisions. You’ll learn both how to use models to facilitate decision-making and also how to structure decision-making for optimum results. Two of Wharton’s most acclaimed professors will show you the step-by-step processes of modeling common business and financial scenarios, so you can significantly improve your ability to structure complex problems and derive useful insights about alternatives. Once you’ve created models of existing realities, possible risks, and alternative scenarios, you can determine the best solution for your business or enterprise, using the decision-making tools and techniques you’ve learned in this course.
Este curso forma parte de Programa Especializado - Business and Financial Modeling
Decision-Making and Scenarios
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Habilidades que obtendrás
Cash FlowFinancial StatementBalance SheetInvestment
Programa - Qué aprenderás en este curso
Semana
1Evaluation Criteria: Net Present Value
This module was designed to introduce you to the many potential criteria for selecting investment projects, and to explore the most effective of these criteria: Net Present Value (NPV). Through the use of concrete examples, you'll learn the key components of Net Present Value, including the time value of money and the cost of capital, the main utility of NPV, and why it is ultimately more accurate and useful for evaluating projects than other commonly used criteria. By the end of this module, you'll be able to explain why net present value analysis is the appropriate criteria for choosing whether to accept or reject a project, and why other criteria, such as IRR, payback, ROI, etc. may not lead to decisions which maximize value.
6 videos (Total 73 minutos), 2 readings, 1 quiz
6 videos
1.1 Introduction: Criteria for Evaluating Projects6m
1.2 Time Value of Money19m
1.3 NPV Analysis of Projects16m
1.4 Other Evaluation Techniques15m
1.5 The Cost of Capital10m
2 lecturas
PDFs of Lecture Slides10m
Excel Spreadsheets: Module 110m
1 ejercicio de práctica
Evaluation Criteria: Module 1 Quiz20m
Semana
2Evaluating Projects
In this module, you'll learn how to evaluate a project with emphasis on analyzing the incremental after-tax cash flows associated with the project. You'll work through a concrete example using alternative scenarios to test the effectiveness of this method. You'll also learn why only future cash flows are relevant, why to ignore financial costs, include all incidental effects, remember working capital requirements, consider the effect of taxes, forget sunk costs, remember opportunity costs, use expected cash flows, and perform sensitivity analysis. By the end of this module, you'll be able to evaluate projects more thoroughly and effectively, with emphasis on how to model the change in the company’s after-tax cash flows, so that you can make more profitable decisions.
5 videos (Total 63 minutos), 1 reading, 1 quiz
5 videos
2.2 Analyzing Incremental After-Tax Flows - Operating Phase12m
2.3 Analyzing Incremental After-Tax Flows - Terminal Phase6m
2.4 Example: New Production Machine12m
2.5 Key Considerations in Evaluations19m
1 lectura
PDFs of Lecture Slides10m
1 ejercicio de práctica
How to Evaluate Projects: Module 2 Quiz22m
Semana
3Expressing Business Strategies in Financial Terms
This module was designed to give you the opportunity to learn how business activities, transactions and events are translated into financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements. You'll also learn how these three statements are linked to each other, and how balance sheets and income statements can help forecast the future cash flow statements. By the end of this module, you'll be able to explain how accounting systems translate business activities into financial terms, and how to use this to better forecast future cash flows, so that you can express your business strategies in these financial terms, and show "the bottom line" for your proposed plan of action.
3 videos (Total 52 minutos), 1 reading, 1 quiz
3 videos
3.2 Balance Sheets and Income Statements15m
3.3 Cash Flow Statements17m
1 lectura
PDFs of Lecture Slides10m
1 ejercicio de práctica
Financial Statements and Forecasting: Module 3 Quiz20m
Semana
4New Product Value
In this module, you'll apply what you’ve been learning to an analysis of a new product venture. You’ll learn how to map out a plan of the business activities, transactions and events that need to happen to implement the new venture, including their timing. You'll also learn how to set up a spreadsheet to help with forecasts, and to re-calculate things automatically as we re-think our plans. You'll see how to forecast out the implied financial statements, and calculate the Net Present Value (NPV). By the end of this module, you'll be able to use spreadsheets to explore different risks a venture may face, and analyze the implications of these scenarios for NPV, so that you can make the most profitable, data-driven decision possible.
6 videos (Total 51 minutos), 2 readings, 1 quiz
6 videos
4.2 Forecasting Future Cash Flows11m
4.3 NPV and IRR Calculations5m
4.4 Formulation and Evaluation of Alternative Scenarios15m
4.5 Expanding Beyond the Time Horizon9m
Course Conclusionm
2 lecturas
PDFs of Lecture Slides10m
Excel Spreadsheets: Module 410m
1 ejercicio de práctica
Calculating Value: Module 4 Quiz20m
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comenzó una nueva carrera después de completar estos cursos
83%
consiguió un beneficio tangible en su carrera profesional gracias a este curso
20%
consiguió un aumento de sueldo o ascenso
Principales revisiones
por SR•Apr 23rd 2017
The course material and examples are very useful. I really like the CF spreadsheet at the end of week 4 as this is very organized CF model and I can use this as reference to build my own. Thank you!
por AS•Jun 6th 2018
Thank you for the wonderful course. It gave us substantial information to evaluate a project based on NPV and IRR. The sensitivity analyses and the consequent scenarios were spelt out lucidly.
Instructores
Richard Lambert
Professor of AccountingAccounting- Wharton School
Robert W. Holthausen
ProfessorAccounting
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Acerca del programa especializado Business and Financial Modeling
Wharton's Business and Financial Modeling Specialization is designed to help you make informed business and financial decisions. These foundational courses will introduce you to spreadsheet models, modeling techniques, and common applications for investment analysis, company valuation, forecasting, and more. When you complete the Specialization, you'll be ready to use your own data to describe realities, build scenarios, and predict performance.
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