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.
Este curso forma parte de Programa Especializado - Business Foundations
Introduction to Corporate Finance
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Habilidades que obtendrás
Discounted Cash FlowDecision-MakingCorporate FinanceCash Flow Analysis
Programa - Qué aprenderás en este curso
Semana
1Week 1: Time Value of Money
Welcome to Introduction to Corporate Finance! This first module will introduce you to one of the most important foundational concepts in Finance, the time value of money. Before diving into the Video lectures, I encourage you to take a look at the brief pre-reading for the course. Specifically, have a look at “Big Picture Course Motivation,” for additional motivation and context for the course, “Time Value of Money Overview,” for a motivation and context for our first topic, and “Quiz Problem Answer Input.” This last note is particularly important to avoid confusion with the problem sets. Then, go to the Video Lectures and start learning Finance!
4 videos (Total: 41 min), 6 readings, 4 quizzes
6 lecturas
Syllabus20m
Big Picture Course Motivation15m
Time Value of Money Overview15m
Quiz Problem Answer Input10m
Lecture Slides10m
Finance Matters: additional information about the field of Finance10m
4 ejercicios de práctica
Problem Set 1: TVM: Intuition Discounting45m
Problem Set 2: TVM: Compounding45m
Problem Set 3: TVM: Useful Shortcuts45m
Problem Set 4: TVM: Useful Shortcuts45m
Semana
2Week 2: Interest Rates
In this module, we wrap up the Time Value of Money topic with a discussion of inflation before moving on to our second topic, Interest Rates, and introducing our third topic, Discounted Cash Flow Analysis. By the end of this module, you should feel comfortable with discounting and compounding arbitrary cash flow streams in order to value different claims and make better financial decisions.
4 videos (Total: 49 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes
1 lectura
Lecture Slides10m
2 ejercicios de práctica
Problem Set 6: Interest Rates: APR and EARm
Problem Set 7: Interest Rates: Term Structurem
Semana
3Week 3: Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
This module continues our discussion of discounted cash flow analysis by way of a capital budgeting case. (You might want to download or view the Excel file, “Tablet Case Spreadsheet.xlsx,” that I use in the lectures, but it is not necessary for understanding the material.) By the end of this module, you should feel comfortable valuing claims and making financing decisions in which the timing of the cash flows and compounding of interest is arbitrary (e.g., annual, semi-quarterly, monthly, etc.). Having worked through the problems, you should also be more comfortable with real world financial decision making related to retirement savings, home financing and refinancing, auto leases, and other scenarios.
3 videos (Total: 50 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz
2 lecturas
Lecture Slides10m
Tablet Case Spreadsheet10m
1 ejercicio de práctica
Problem Set 9: DCF: Free Cash Flowm
Semana
4Week 4: Return on Investment
This module closes out our discussion of discounted cash flow analysis and caps off the course with a discussion of return on investment. By the end of this module, you should feel comfortable with the notion of free cash flow and the ability to apply a set of forecast drivers to project free cash flows into the future. These are some of the elements of a basic financial model, which we will use to come to a decision about the tablet project and to analyze the assumptions behind our valuation.
3 videos (Total: 48 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz
1 lectura
Lecture Slides10m
1 ejercicio de práctica
Problem Set 14: Return on Investmentm
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por LL•Oct 22nd 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!
por KK•Jan 4th 2016
Having spent the most of my 20 year career full time in corporate finance i was pleasantly surprised to have new perspectives and takeaway points on key aspects on the subject. Highly recommended
Instructor
Michael R Roberts
William H. Lawrence Professor of Finance, the Wharton School, University of PennsylvaniaFinance
Acerca de University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn) is a private university, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. A member of the Ivy League, Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and considers itself to be the first university in the United States with both undergraduate and graduate studies.
Acerca del programa especializado Business Foundations
In this Specialization, you’ll develop basic literacy in the language of business, which you can use to transition to a new career, start or improve your own small business, or apply to business school to continue your education. In five courses, you’ll learn the fundamentals of marketing, accounting, operations, and finance. In the final Capstone Project, you’ll apply the skills learned by developing a go-to-market strategy to address a real business challenge.
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