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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....

Top reviews

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 Guru V

Feb 7, 2020

Provides excellent grasp over basic and intermediate finance theories and delves into the real life applications of said concepts.

By Moonsun Y

Feb 23, 2020

It was fantastic. I have learned a lot. The lectures are clear and solving exercises was very helpful to funderstand the lectures

By Vikrant D

Oct 11, 2016

Fabulous course. Really simple language explaining complex concepts. Helpful in understanding fundamentals of corporate finance.

By ARVIND S

Aug 23, 2018

Excellent course though I would lay more stress on financial calculators and excel rather than solving through tedious formulae

By Michael A

Jan 28, 2022

Easy to understand with step by step explanation. Truly an enjoyable course for me. Cleared the 4 weeks section within 3 days.

By Julian R P

Oct 26, 2016

For someone who was terrified of finance, I actually managed to enjoy it through this course.

That on its own deserves 5 stars.

By Vijaya S

Feb 26, 2020

Lectures by Prof Roberts are lucid and easy to understand. This is the best introduction to corporate finance I have had yet.

By ying

Feb 22, 2016

Very appreciated. Learned a lot of basics, which I find they are very intuitive and effecient tools to analysing a corporate.

By Ziltan C

Oct 25, 2018

thanks professor, those functional finance knowledge is quite helpful to understand the strategy of company investment plan

By kenji s l

Jan 10, 2022

Great specialization for anyone that is looking to gain further knowledge on the world of business on a short term basis!

By Muhamad F

Jul 14, 2021

very informative and easy to understand. Hoping I will be finance analyst so I could practice the lesson into real cases

By Sayo A

Jun 3, 2020

Introduction to Corporate Finance was great! It was very easy to understand; it made the abstract concepts very relevant.

By Sean H

Nov 19, 2016

Awesome course! I learned a lot about fundamentals of corporate finance and the lectures are thorough and very valuable!

By LATEEF T

Apr 1, 2020

World class learning platform. Facilitator is outstanding, site is awesome and learning materials are learner friendly

By Aman M

Jul 19, 2019

Amazing course to recap what we do daily in our professional lives but with more precision and more clarity of thoughts

By Mona S

Mar 8, 2017

I'm learning so much! It helps me analyze and plan my own finances, and I'm sure this will be useful for future work!

By Rajat G

May 30, 2020

The basics were taught really well and the pace of the course was also kept such that it could be comprehended well.

By 杨佳微

Nov 7, 2019

Thanks for these lecture videos and reading materials, get to know some basic but useful terms and tools in Finance.

By Juan C C A

Mar 26, 2018

Fast and informative. Perhaps towards the end doing some work over the Tablet case would have been more instructive.

By Faig K

Nov 20, 2017

Excellent course, perfect professor! I liked his teaching style. Very informative and easy learning method.

Thank you

By Tatiana F

Oct 2, 2016

Up to now and from all that I have completed, this is the best and the most useful online course offered by Wharton!

By Devon P

Mar 25, 2020

I enjoyed the class very much! The lectures were engaging and the cousera software made it very easy to take notes.

By Aditya G

Aug 15, 2018

The course helped me understand decision making in finance world by widely considering topics like NPV, DCF and IRR

By Darwin A

Mar 2, 2019

The professor Roberts is excelent, his explanations are awesome. Thanks a lot Professor Roberts and Wharton School

By jeff

Feb 3, 2017

Well structured. Information is articulated in a very easy-to-understand way for someone even remotely interested.