Corporate Finance Essentials II
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Corporate Finance Essentials II at Coursera Overview
Duration | 8 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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- Curriculum
Corporate Finance Essentials II at Coursera Highlights
- This Course Plus the Full Specialization
- Shareable Certificates
- Graded Programming Assignments
Corporate Finance Essentials II at Coursera Course details
- This course picks up where Corporate Finance Essentials left, addressing other corporate finance issues not addressed in the previous course, such as market efficiency, bonds, stocks, capital structure, and dividend policy
- This course will help participatns to:
- Understanding the concept of market efficiency
- Get an overview in issues related to bonds, such as type of bonds, their return (yield to maturity) and default risk
- Getting to know the valuation of stocks through the method of relative valuation (multiples)
- Knowing what are the sources that financial companies use to obtain capital for their projects
- Understanding two of the most critical decisions companies need to make: whether to pay dividends and if so, how much
Corporate Finance Essentials II at Coursera Curriculum
Course overview: A Look Back & a Look Ahead to Corporate Finance Essentials
Professor's Biography
Introduction
Risk and return
Correlation and Diversification
The CAPM and the Cost of Capital
Estimating the Cost of Capital
Project Evaluation
Corporate Value Creation
A Look Ahead to Corporate Finance Essentials II
Syllabus
Market Efficiency
Market Efficiency
Factors determining Market Efficiency
A Myth
Levels of Efficiency
Fundamental and Technical Analysis
Four Important Points
Beating the Market
Investing
The bottom Line
Market Efficiency
Bonds
Bonds. Introduction
Bond Issuers and Bond Types
A Simple Example
Valuation
Valuation. Case Study
The Yield to Maturity
The Yield to Maturity. Case Study
Risk. Default Risk
Risk. Other sources of bond risk
The Bottom Line
The Essential Finantial Toolkit
Bonds
Stocks
The Basics
Multiples. Two critical issues
Multiples. The P/E Ratio
Multiples. Benchmarks
Multiples. The Critical Question
Multiples. The PEG Ratio
Case Study. Part 1
Case Study. Part 2
The Bottom Line
The Essential Financial Toolkit. Multiples
Stocks
Capital Structure
Capital Structure. The Basics
Debt Ratios and Required Returns
Case Study
Reflections
Two Final Points
The Bottom Line
Capital Structure
Dividend Policy
Dividend Policy. The Basics
Relevant variables. Environment
Relevant variables. Clienteles and Growth
Relevant variables. Smoothing
Relevant variables. Signals and Taxes
Share Buybacks
The Bottom Line
Corporate Finance Essentials II: Wrap Up
Dividend Policy
Corporate Finance Essentials II
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