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Corporate Finance Foundations

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Corporate Finance Courses Risk Management Courses Cost of Capital Courses Capital Budgeting Courses Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Courses Diversification Courses Capital Structure Courses Securities Market Courses

Course Description

Overview

Learn the basics of corporate finance and its impact on decision-making and growth.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Finance for business decision making
1. What is Finance
  • The board of directors discusses finance
  • Finance inside of companies
  • Finance outside of companies
2. Risk and Return
  • What is risk and why don't we like it?
  • Reducing risk through diversification
  • Beta: The concept
  • Beta: Examples
  • Risk-free rate
  • Equity risk premium
  • Capital asset pricing model (CAPM)
3. Obtaining Long-Term Financing
  • Introducing long-term financing
  • Does capital structure matter?
  • Factors influencing optimal capital structure
  • Cost of capital: All debt or all equity financing
  • Cost of capital: Split debt-equity financing
  • Weighted-average cost of capital
4. Understanding Securities Markets
  • The difference between a stock and a bond
  • Stock markets
  • Bond markets
  • Publicly-traded shares: What impacts the share price?
  • Initial public offering (IPO): Microsoft
5. Capital Budgeting
  • Capital budgeting overview
  • The importance of the time value of money
  • Example: Buying light switches
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Jim Stice and Kay Stice

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