About this 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.

Created by: University of Pennsylvania

Taught by: Michael R Roberts, William H. Lawrence Professor of Finance, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Finance

Basic Info	Course 4 of 6 in the Business Foundations Specialization.
Commitment	4 weeks of study, 4-7 hours/week
Language	English
How To Pass	Pass all graded assignments to complete the course.

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Week 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-re...

4 videos, 6 readings

Graded: Problem Set 1: TVM: Intuition Discounting

Graded: Problem Set 2: TVM: Compounding

Graded: Problem Set 3: TVM: Useful Shortcuts

Graded: Problem Set 4: TVM: Useful Shortcuts

WEEK 2

Week 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...

4 videos, 1 reading

Graded: Problem Set 6: Interest Rates: APR and EAR

Graded: Problem Set 7: Interest Rates: Term Structure

WEEK 3

Week 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 ...

3 videos, 2 readings

Graded: Problem Set 9: DCF: Free Cash Flow

WEEK 4

Week 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...

3 videos, 1 reading

Graded: Problem Set 14: Return on Investment

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