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Finance Fundamentals

From financial analysis of business performance to how businesses raise capital, manage debt, and build equity, this course will provide an overview of managerial finance in the corporate world.

 

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Finance Fundamentals

  • Gain an understanding of how businesses raise capital, manage debt, and build equity
  • Become familiar with financial analysis procedures
  • Get an overview of managerial finance in the corporate world
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What's Included:

  • Topic-specific courses to reinforce the content you need
  • On-demand classes taught by experts
  • Course content approved by business school professors
  • Lessons based on real-world business scenarios
  • Quizzes and assessments that test subject mastery
  • 24/7 accessibility on mobile and desktop

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Cover all the key topics in Finance, Accounting, and Statistics. With the Business Fundamentals bundle, you get access to all three courses for the price of two.

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You Will Learn To:

  1. Utilize the terminology and math used in time value of money calculations.
  2. Perform standard TVM calculations in a spreadsheet.
  3. Identify how business performance is measured by managers.
  4. List the basic types of debt and equity.
  5. Perform basic calculations to show those values.
  6. Utilize the terminology and math used to value business and cash flows.
  7. Perform a basic discounted cash flow valuation in a spreadsheet.
  8. Identify the relationship between interest rates and risk.
     

Finance Fundamental Course Topics

The primary goal of studying Finance is to plan for and predict the future from a monetary perspective. Both individuals and businesses need to plan for their financial future, and to do that they need to understand how money works in the short and long term. Our topic on the time value of money introduces the basics so students will learn how businesses make money work for them.

Once you understand how money works the next step is to assess how well it's working for a company or individual.  Borrowing some knowledge from the world of Accounting, we can analyze financial statements and ratios to assess financial performance.

Topic 3 of our Finance course focuses on debt and equity, or in other words the lack of value and presence of value.  Effectively managing debt and equity are vital to financial wellbeing, and this topic will introduce students to the tools that help with this management such as loans, bonds, stock, and more.

Our discussion of Finance concludes with valuation and how to determine what a business' actual value is.  From discounted cash flows to interest rates and risk, this final topic will prepare students to analyze and value the financial position of a business.