Columbia University - Risk & Return
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Risk & Return
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Learn how to measure the risk and return of equity and debt; and compute the weighted average of cost of capital
Duration | 14 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Schedule type | Self paced |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Risk & Return
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Skills you will learn
Who should do this course?
- Students must be familiar with basic concepts of Accounting; basic skills in Microsoft Excel (or equivalent)
What are the course deliverables?
- Learn How to measure risk
- Learn to Estimate the expected return of an asset based on its risk
- Learn to Adjust the risk of the equity and debt of a firm when the firm changes its capital structure
- Learn to Calculate the weighted average cost of capital (essential input to value of firm)
More about this course
- 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.
Risk & Return at edX Curriculum
Risk & Return
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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
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