Title: Introduction to Corporate Finance

Location: US

Company: Columbia University

About this course:
In this course, you will gain an understanding of time-honored financial concepts and rules, and how these can be applied to value firms, bonds, and stocks.
We will cover the time value of money, cost of capital and capital budgeting. You will be using Excel for many process including valuing bonds and stocks, computing NPV and finding IRR.
An introductory finance course that is required for all first-year MBA students at Columbia Business School, the course is taught by a world-class instructor, actively training the next generation of market leaders on Wall Street.
Participants from all backgrounds will be prepared to participate on the ever-evolving financial playing field.

How to value any asset

Decide which projects to take out of the many a corporation might be considering

Compute the return on any project

Compute the value that a project adds

Value a bond and compute its yield

Value a stock using a simple model (i.e., determine the fair price of a stock)

Learn key financial concepts for evaluating and valuing investment opportunities, including how to value stocks and bonds.

Duration: 4 weeks

Skills:
- Capital Budgeting
- Corporate Finance
- Cost Of Capital
- Finance
- Investments
- Master Of Business Administration (MBA)
- Stocks (Finance)
- Time Value Of Money

Curriculum:
- How to value any asset
- Decide which projects to take out of the many a corporation might be considering
- Compute the return on any project
- Compute the value that a project adds
- Value a bond and compute its yield

- Value a stock using a simple model (i.e., determine the fair price of a stock)