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Risk & Return

Offered By: Columbia University via edX

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Economics Courses Finance Courses Equity Courses Investment Analysis Courses Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Courses Valuation Courses Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) Courses

Course Description

Overview

In this course, you will learn to estimate the expected return of equity and debt. You will also learn to estimate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC), the opportunity cost of capital you should use when discounting the free cash flows to value a firm.

In the process, you will learn to estimate the risk of financial assets and how use this measure of risk to calculate expected returns. You will also learn how the capital structure of a firm affects the riskiness of its equity and debt. Throughout the course, you will learn how to construct Excel models to value firms using hands on activities.


Syllabus

Week 1: Risk, return, and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)

Week 2: The Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) and the effect of capital structure on WACC

Week 3: Case study: Estimating the WACC

Week 4: Valuation capstone case


Taught by

Daniel Wolfenzon

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