MBA ASAP Corporate Finance Fundamentals for Career Success

Tools of Financial Analysis, Valuation, Investing, Money Management, and Decision Making. DCF,NPV, IRR & more

Created by: John Cousins
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What Will I Learn?

• Financial Statement analysis Budgeting and forecasting Cost volume profit analysis CVP
• Break-even analysis B/E Risk management Business/Asset/Unit Valuation
• Learning is driven by hands-on experience, particularly in programming. There are lots of coding exercises in this course.
• Corporate Finance is the tools and techniques of how companies make decisions about what projects to pursue, and how to value those projects.
• Hone new skills online with expert faculty.
• This course provides a framework for how financial professionals make decisions about how, when, and where to invest money.
• This is the course you pick when you don’t want to waste your time and want the best work done.
• What Will I Learn Analyze and understand an income statement (even if you have no experience with income statements).
• You will be able to use these tools and calculations to value assets and make financial decisions relative to investing and allocating resources to projects.
• Analyze and understand a balance sheet . Analyze and understand a cash flow statement.
• The highest form of self-confidence is believing in your ability to learn.
• What Is an Asset?
• Develop theories about asset prices that are informed by real-world financial and economic relationships, and then rigorously test them.
• Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs (and other non-financial types) Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!
• Investor’s Edge: This guide also sharpens your investing acumen, enabling you to make informed decisions.
• Now with lots of quizzes to test your comprehension. Practice with struggle > practice without struggle.
• If you want to get further than you’ve ever gone before you need to be willing to learn like never before.
• Without understanding Finance you will struggle as a leader.

Requirements

• The only requirement is a positive attitude. : )
• There are no prerequisites for this course. If you are able to take this online course then by definition you have enough facility with computers to understand the material. We will talk conceptually about the core concepts and tools of finance and start from square one so you don’t need any prior knowledge or experience. To begin, I recommend taking a few minutes to explore the course site and get a feel for the material we’ll cover in each section.
• Learn the main concepts and tools of Corporate Finance by an Award Winning MBA Professor, business consultant and MBA Graduate of the Ivy League Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania; 15 year experience as a Public Company CFO.

Target audience

• Anyone interested in learning a skillset that will make you more valuable at your job, help you start something on the side, or let you quit your job and start your own business.
• If you are thinking about an MBA or are enrolled in a program and are preparing to take accounting and finance courses, this course will prepare you for excelling in your program.
• Why take this finance course? Understand the Numbers side of Business Financial Literacy Matters. Senior executives routinely share and discuss financial data with marketing directors, operations chiefs, and other direct reports. But how much do those managers really understand about finance and the numbers? A recent investigation into this question concluded most managers understand not enough to be useful. Asked to take a basic financial-literacy exam—a test that any CEO or junior finance person should easily ace—a representative sample of U.S. managers from C-level executives to supervisors scored an average of only 38%. Lack of financial literacy matters and impacts an organizations ability to optimally perform. Those who can’t speak the language of business can’t contribute much to a discussion of performance and are unlikely to advance in the hierarchy or reach their full potential. Does a lack of financial literacy matter? From a managers’ point of view, it surely does. Those who can’t speak the language of business can’t contribute much to a discussion of performance and are unlikely to advance in the hierarchy. They may get caught off guard by financial shenanigans, as many employees at Enron were. They also are unable to gauge the health of a prospective or current employer. The CFO of a small manufacturing company often asks candidates for engineering positions whether they would like to review the past two years of the company’s financials. None yet have taken him up on the offer—knowing, perhaps, that they could make neither head nor tail of the statements. People don’t tell their bosses that they don’t speak finance. It’s the usual human reluctance to admit ignorance. In a survey managers were asked what happens in meetings when people don’t understand financial data. The majority chose answers reflecting that reluctance, such as “Most people don’t ask because they don’t want to appear uninformed in front of their boss or peers.” Don’t let this be you. Take this course and understand Corporate Finance.
• • Anyone interested in how accounting works (no prior accounting experience is needed). • Anyone interested in how finance works (no prior finance experience is needed). • Anyone interested in how financial modeling works (no prior modeling experience is needed). • Anyone interested in how valuation works (no prior valuation experience is needed). • Anyone interested in how financial ratios work (no prior financial ratios experience is needed). • Anyone interested in understanding the Time Value of Money, and interest rates. (no prior knowledge required) • Anyone interested in finally understanding DCF, NPV and IRR with no prior knowledge required.