Can you take Corporate Finance II without having taken Corporate Finance I?
The answer, of course, is yes, it's up to you, the course is open.
I would like to say, though, that it's not ideal, because I am going to use tools and
concepts that we also discussed it in Corporate Finance I, such as
net present value, financial planning models, and other concepts as well.
So I would, it would be better if you could take both courses.
However, I understand some of you may be more interested in Corporate Finance II,
or you may have some background already.
What I'm going to do, to make it easy for you is, every time I use a concept or
idea developed in Corporate Finance I, every time I draw in an example from
that course or I draw in a concept that we studied in Corporate Finance I,
I will try to state it explicitly in the slides.
And then point out to a specific module in Corporate Finance I where you can go
back and review that material.
Okay, so that way I think you can easily go back and look at what you need,
learn what you need, and then go on with Corporate Finance II.
I think it won't be too painful to go back to Corporate Finance I.
You know, this is actually a very highly rated finance course on Coursera.
This data come from about October 2016,
we had 171 ratings exactly.
And we got a rating of 4.7 out of 5.
Thank you for all of you who have rated the course, shared your stories,
you know there is an example here for you.
You know, thank you for
helping out with this, really the marketing aspect of the course.
Of course, I'm very glad to see that you enjoyed Corporate Finance I.
And I hope you're going to enjoy taking this course, best course as well.
If you are just thinking about whether to take Corporate Finance II,
maybe you want to take Corporate Finance I as well.
So what are some of the issues that we're going to borrow from Corporate Finance I?
You're going to see that we're going to use lots of real world examples.
So it's not just theory, it's not just examples from textbooks.
I'm really going to draw on examples from financial management that
real world companies, and try to dig into data, try to understand what
these companies are doing, and see what we can learn from these examples.
So, these are just five different companies that we're going to talk about
in the course, but there are many more.
And when we talk about real world companies, for example,
here you have AT&T, we are really going to get into the real data.
I'm not going to massage the data, or change things, or make it easy for
you, I'm really going to draw the data directly from financial statements and
give it to you so you can look at the data, learn where to get data,
how to read financial statements, and how to use them to do financial management for
real world firms.
There is also going to be time for questions.
If you took Corporate Finance I,
you might remember that there are many questions that I introduced in the videos,
right where we stop the video and we allow you to think about the question.
Spend some time reflecting, going back to the earlier material,
trying to answer questions, I think that's an important part of the learning.
However, there are also some new things.
There's some exciting new things.
As I mentioned before, there's going to be a greater focus on research.
As it turns out, even though both Corporate Finance I and
Corporate Finance II, both investments in financing are extremely important topics,
most of the research in corporate finance actually focus on financial management.
So, as you're going to see, we're going to draw on a lot of
the most updated research on issues like capital structure,
payout, risk management and really bring them to this course.
And to see what we can learn from researchers.
And I'm promising you,
there is going to be a lot that we can learn from recent research that is
going to improve the way that you can do financial management in the real world.
So very practical applied research, but very solid and careful research as well.