Corporate Finance Fundamentals

Name: Corporate Finance Fundamentals
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Rating: 4.80 (2935 reviews)

Learn Corporate Finance Fundamentals to understand how companies think about capital investment, capital financing, and the return of capital.

Understand how to select projects that will create value for shareholders
Learn how to use capital financing to optimize the capital structure of a company
Select a method of returning capital to company shareholders

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Overview

Corporate Finance Fundamentals Course Overview

Corporate Finance Fundamentals covers capital investment, capital financing, and the return of capital. Learn how companies evaluate potential projects for those that increase shareholder value. Understand how to optimize a firm’s capital structure. Select various methods for returning capital to shareholders.

Corporate Finance Fundamentals Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, you will be able to:

Understand what capital investment is and why it increases a company’s assets
Learn common metrics used by companies to evaluate various investments
Learn the business life cycle and how it impacts the funding life cycle
Understand the types & sources of equity & debt available to companies
Learn how to minimize a company’s weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
Understand the advantages & disadvantages of the different ways a company can return capital

Who Should Take This Corporate Finance Fundamentals Course?

This course is ideal for those interested in the FMVA Certification and needing a refresher on the fundamentals of corporate finance. It is also ideally suited to those who have not studied corporate finance and are looking for an introductory course that covers the subject.

Prerequisite Courses

Recommended courses to complete before taking this course.

Prerequisite Skills

Recommended skills to have before taking this course.

Basic Math
Basic data analysis
Valuation

Corporate Finance Fundamentals

4.8

Led by Duncan McKeen

Level 2

1h 36min

100% online and self-paced

Field of Study: Finance

NASBA CPE Credits: 2.5

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What you'll learn

Lesson

Multimedia

Exams

Files

Course Summary

Qualified Assessment

Qualified assessment

This Course is Part of the Following Programs

Why stop here? Expand your skills and show your expertise with the professional certifications, specializations, and CPE credits you’re already on your way to earning.

Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA®) Certification

Skills Learned Financial modeling and valuation, sensitivity analysis, strategy
Career Prep Investment banking and equity research, FP&A, corporate development

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Finance for Non-Finance Managers

Skills You’ll Gain Accounting, Finance, Budgeting and Forecasting, Strategy
Great For Operations, Marketing or Sales Managers, Department Heads/Team Leaders, Strategy Consultant, Non-Finance Executive Roles (e.g. COO, CTO) and more

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Financial Planning & Analysis Professional

Skills You’ll Gain Accounting, Finance, Excel, Data Analysis, Financial Statement Analysis, Financial Modeling, Budgeting, Forecasting, Power Query, Power BI, Data Visualization, Economics, and more
Great For The FPAP certification focuses on practical, desk-ready skills that are immediately applicable to current FP&A professionals or anyone seeking to land a role in FP&A

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Corporate Finance Fundamentals

Corporate Finance Fundamentals Course Overview

Corporate Finance Fundamentals Course Objectives

Who Should Take This Corporate Finance Fundamentals Course?

Corporate Finance Fundamentals

What you'll learn

Course Introduction

Capital Investment - Overview

Capital Investment - Metrics

Capital Financing - Overview

Capital Financing – Equity

Capital Financing – Debt

Capital Financing – Optimal Structure

Capital Return

Course Summary

Qualified Assessment

This Course is Part of the Following Programs

Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA®) Certification

Finance for Non-Finance Managers

Financial Planning & Analysis Professional

What Our Members Say

Abu Stanley Oseseh

Yutian Song

Nurakhmet Darkhan

Sylvia Namata Ssekabunga

aviral fouzdar

James Yiwombe

fotaw chambeng vivian

Aires Mucombo

Rawan Alroomi

Kingsley Momoh

Ibrahim Saad Edeen Jarrar

Sayed Ali Salem

Sourav Paul

Arun Gurung

Oladotun Adebayo

Javed Hussain

Larry Plesser

Anika Clarke

Akhilesh Shukla

Sushmita Nayak

Jose George

Swapnil Pathak

Oluyitan Victor Oluwatayo

AKEEM ATANDA LASISI

Arpit Tripathi

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