Об этом курсе: Corporate Finance Essentials will enable you to understand key financial issues related to companies, investors, and the interaction between them in the capital markets. By the end of this course you should be able to understand most of what you read in the financial press and use the essential financial vocabulary of companies and finance professionals.
Автор: Школа бизнеса IESE
Преподаватели: Javier Estrada, Professor of Financial Management
Department of Financial Management
| Выполнение | 7 weeks of study, 2-3 hours/week |
| Язык | English, Субтитры: Korean, Chinese (Simplified) |
| Как пройти курс | Чтобы пройти курс, выполните все оцениваемые задания. |
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Программа курса
НЕДЕЛЯ 1
Course Overview
Overall Syllabus
1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Syllabus
НЕДЕЛЯ 2
Risk and Return
Welcome to Session 1 In this session we will discuss some basic but essential financial concepts such as mean return, volatility, and beta. We will also learn how to apply them in order to assess the performance of selected equity markets over the last decade. The learning objective is to understand the basic, essential, and widely used financial concepts.
7 видео, 3 материалов для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: About this session
- Видео: 1. What is this course all about?
- Видео: 2. Periodic Returns
- Видео: 3. Arithmetic and Geometric Mean Returns
- Видео: 4. Evidence
- Видео: 5. Volatility
- Видео: 6. Beta
- Видео: 7. A brief recap
- Reading: Readings
- Reading: Intro to Quiz 1
Оцениваемый: Quiz 1
НЕДЕЛЯ 3
Correlation and Diversification
To understand diversification, an issue at the very heart of most investment decisions, and the role that correlation plays in determining the gains from diversification.
7 видео, 3 материалов для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: About this session
- Видео: 1. Recap on the Previous Session
- Видео: 2. Portfolio Risk
- Видео: 3. The Correlation Coefficient
- Видео: 4. The Importance of Correlation
- Видео: 5. Diversification and Correlation Part 1
- Видео: 6. Diversification and Correlation Part 2
- Видео: 7. Diversification, Correlation and Portfolios
- Reading: Readings
- Reading: Intro to Quiz 2
Оцениваемый: Quiz 2
НЕДЕЛЯ 4
The CAPM and the Cost of Capital
In this session we will discuss how companies assess their cost of debt, their cost of equity, and ultimately their cost of capital. We will also discuss why this last concept is at the heart of many of the most important corporate decisions.
7 видео, 3 материалов для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: About this session
- Видео: 1. What is the cost of capital?
- Видео: 2. Three ways to think about the cost of capital
- Видео: 3. Components and notation
- Видео: 4. The debt tax shield
- Видео: 5. The cost of debt
- Видео: 6. The cost of equity
- Видео: 7. The CAPM
- Reading: Readings
- Reading: Intro to Quiz 3
Оцениваемый: Quiz 3
НЕДЕЛЯ 5
Estimating the Cost of Capital - An Application
In this session we will put to work all the concepts discussed in the previous session by estimating the cost of capital of a company. As usual, when putting theory into practice, a few complications arise and we will discuss how to deal with them.
3 видео, 3 материалов для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: About this session
- Видео: 1. Recap on the previous session
- Видео: 2. Estimating the cost of capital: Starbucks
- Видео: 3. Estimating the cost of capital: Starbucks; A Few Rounding Comments
- Reading: Readings
- Reading: Intro to Quiz 4
Оцениваемый: Quiz 4
НЕДЕЛЯ 6
Project Evaluation
In this session we will discuss how companies routinely decide whether or not to invest in projects. We will discuss the two tools most widely used for this purpose, NPV and IRR, and apply them to the evaluation of an investment opportunity.
8 видео, 3 материалов для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: About this session
- Видео: 1. What is this all about?
- Видео: 2. Introduction to the Net Present Value (NPV)
- Видео: 3. The Net Present Value (NPV)
- Видео: 4. The Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
- Видео: 5. Shortcomings of the IRR
- Видео: 6. Evaluating an investment opportunity
- Видео: 7. Discount rates across countries or divisions
- Видео: 8. Discount rates over time
- Reading: Readings
- Reading: Intro to Quiz 5
Оцениваемый: Quiz 5
НЕДЕЛЯ 7
Corporate Value Creation
In this session we will discuss EVA, a tool widely used to assess whether a company is creating or destroying value. We will also put this tool into practice by estimating the EVA of two companies.
6 видео, 3 материалов для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: About this session
- Видео: 1. Corporate value creation
- Видео: 2. Growth and return on growth
- Видео: 3. Economic value added (EVA)
- Видео: 4. EVA: Two examples
- Видео: 5. EVA levels versus EVA changes
- Видео: 6. Brief wrap up
- Reading: Readings
- Reading: Intro to Quiz 6
Оцениваемый: Quiz 6
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Школа бизнеса IESE
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The best course of corporate finance
Very nice course to refresh your learnings on Corporate Finance.
If you really concentrate and study this course, it is one beautiful ride. The language is very simple for everyone to understand and the quality is top notch! Apart from the ambiguous nature of some questions, it is really a well structured course.
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very good!