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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....

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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 Daniel N

Sep 11, 2017

As an entrepreneur, sometimes you focus too much on the quality of your product but forget to track how your product is creating value. Corporate Finance and Accounting are great additions to a skill set that would help any free-lance or entrepreneur manage their income and expenditure and leverage current assets to create more value for the society.

By David C

Nov 24, 2017

Great foundation. Filled in several knowledge gaps for me by slowly building from foundational principles to linking the principles together in real examples. Useful computational exercises well placed through the lectures to confirm understanding. Problem sets were well connected to the lectures. Eager to continue onto the followup course.

By IMMADI U

May 3, 2020

The Course was absolutely fantastic in the context of what a non-financial person can learn. It helps the learner not just understand the concepts at a surface level, but also go deep into decision making using the concepts in real life problems as well. I highly recommend this course to people who are just starting with finance.

By Jethro A D

Mar 12, 2017

The classes are really easy to follow and the problem sets help in making the course more understandable. I learned valuable lessons and concepts from this course that I could use in almost all of our company's projects. I would like to thank Coursera for providing me this opportunity through their financial assistance program.

By Wenjia L

Jan 20, 2016

As a course of foundation level, it is great. At the end of the 4th week material, Professor Roberts mentions about the fixed income securities. I am looking forward to. And if the next course is as great as this one, I am more willing to get verified. Anyway, many thanks to the great Coursera Team and Professor Roberts.

By Roy K

Sep 1, 2019

This course really helped me get a more thorough understanding of finance, all whilst presenting the topics in a way that made the course feel very easy and interesting to take part in. I would highly recommend this course to anyone wanting to come to grips with the inner workings of financial calculation and reasoning!

By Viswas N

May 27, 2022

Fantastic course, particularly as part of intro to finance and accounting specialization. The first course of the specialization was intimidating and the this second course reinforces the concepts, is a little more applied in that it provides motivation for the concepts instead of focusing much on formula derivation.

By Minh Đ

Aug 3, 2023

The course's content is light and the test questions are not so hard. The lectures are pretty easy to comprehend but if some adjustments regarding the difficulty of the test questions can be moderately adjusted, it would be better. Overall it's a great course that can help you comprehend basics of corporate finance

By Khubaib A

Apr 5, 2020

The instructor is friendly and energetic. The course content is very practical. However, instead of explaining things using screenshots of excel spreadsheet, the instructor could've explained by using a screen recording of the excel model. Barring that, very useful and highly informative for a beginner like me.

By Oriol G A

Jul 13, 2021

Very useful as a law student to analyse companies from an economic and financial scope (if you are interested in commercial and business law). This course has brought me some useful content to participe into the decision making when investing on a company or in a merger & adquisition operation in the future.

By Ahmed M K

Mar 25, 2018

Great course! I really enjoyed learning about corporate finance in this course. I heard about different financial terminologies during my professional career and never knew exactly what they meant. Now I have better understanding. Hope to keep on learning these concepts in greater detail in the future.

By Mrityunjay M B

Apr 1, 2020

Loved the course. The entire course was full of real-life questions and scenarios making it all the more relevant. In the last week especially I gained some really good experience and insights into the concepts of IRR and NPV. Thank you for sharing your knowledge in such a simple yet effective manner.

By Tejas S

Oct 20, 2018

The course is very comprehensive yet lucid and simple. Prof. Michael Roberts were very energetic and showed lots of enthusiasm in teaching. I learned a lot from the course which has total relevance in investment decisions. Thanks again to Prof. Michael and the Coursera team for the opportunity. Best.

By maryam e

Apr 21, 2020

I thoroughly enjoyed the course . The course content was just too appropriate for this introductory course. The instructor was too patient . He explained each and every concept in very depth ,Moreover he also recalled previous lecture in every new lecture. Everything was just too perfect.

By Nguyen L

Aug 8, 2023

Introduction to Corporate Finance enhance my knowledge and help me prepare for my Finance major. Since this is an introduction course, I find the homework section a little easy. The video is short, but if you pause and try to understand thoroughly, it provide useful Finance knowledge.

By Pascal J

Mar 26, 2018

Best course I have ever taken. Well organized and balanced with right amount of theories and practices. The examples reflect real business scenarios that help understand the concept better. I am looking forward on taking more classes like that. Great job Professor Michael R. Roberts!

By Nadeem K

Jul 15, 2023

The Corporate Finance course was great for learning about how companies handle money. It taught me important concepts like how to analyze financial statements, make investment decisions, and manage risks. The instructors were helpful, and I would definitely recommend this course.

By Kunj D

Jun 22, 2020

Corporate finance was quiet easier than other kind of courses. it has been improved my financial skills and i might getting interest in the course of finance. i enjoyed a lot while working with these course and i feel great while they are the giving the option of resubmitting.

By Donovan K

Jul 31, 2020

I thought this course was very easy to follow, and very well structured. Professor Roberts did a really good job explaining his examples, and also try to add real life finance applications here and there. Homework were reasonable as long as you pay attention to the videos.

By Christopher N

May 27, 2017

The professor makes these concept very interesting and the enthusiasm you hear in his voice amplifies that. Great course that's clear cut for understanding and very applicable to real world scenarios. Will lever look at a bank's interest rates listings the same again!

By Francis L

Sep 25, 2016

Very clear and delivered in an entertaining way (which, we have to admit, can be quite a challenge for this sort of topic). The problems in the quizzes are forcing you to understand the proper application of the formula rather than staying at the theoretical level.

By Kanchinadham S V

Feb 10, 2016

Really enjoyed the way the prof. explains each concept.I'm a student from non finance background and scored 92% in just one month.Requires only few hours a week probably 2-3.Good course as you can be on track with personal life as well.Michael Roberts is the best.

By AngelStream 0

Mar 24, 2021

An amazing with course with a wonderful approach as well as an incredible teacher. There's nothing more to say but thank you! I ensure you that you're gonna learn everything you need to understand cash flows through a variety of tools given to you in this course.

By Prakhar J

Aug 13, 2022

It was a very pleasant learning experience. It was my first course related to finance, therefore being naive I really felt the course and quizzes were designed in learning-friendly and stimulating manner. Looking forward to more learnings from Wharton's courses.

By Chris D

Jul 26, 2021

This was exactly what I was looking for in an intro to corporate finance. I have used some of the calculations previously in CPA courses but this is much more specific and also gave a much better understanding of the decision making process following the calcs.