This course is offered by coursera (Link to course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/corporate-finance-essentials/home/welcome)
Record of Completion: https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/records/MTLJ5B2NWK4P
November 17, 2017 – Completed Topics:
- Risk and Return – financial concepts such as mean return, volatility, and beta
- Correlation and Diversification – the role that correlation plays in determining the gains from diversification, portfolio risk, correlation coefficient,
- CAPM and the Cost of Capital – assess cost of debt, cost of equity, and ultimately cost of capital of companies, components and notation, debt tax shield
November 18, 2017 – Completed Topics:
- Estimating the Cost of Capital – An Application (Starbucks)
November 23, 2017 – Completed Topics:
- Project Evaluation – Net Present Value (NPV) + Internal Rate of Return (IRR),Applying NPV and IRR, Problems of the IRR approach, Scale and timing problems, Time-varying discount rates, evaluating an investment opportunity
November 24, 2017
- Corporate Value Creation – Growth and return on growth, Economic value added (EVA), Application, EVA levels versus EVA changes
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