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Corporate Finance Essentials for Business Decisions

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Master Corporate Finance with practical tools like NPV, IRR, and WACC to make smarter business decisions. Learn how companies evaluate investments, manage risk, and maximize value. This course provides a comprehensive, real-world approach to corporate finance, covering capital budgeting, cost of capital, financial leverage, dividend policy, and working capital management. You will learn how to analyze investment opportunities, compare financial strategies, and understand how financing decisions impact firm value. Through structured lessons, you will gain the ability to evaluate projects using discounted cash flow techniques, optimize capital structure, and assess shareholder return strategies. The course also explores liquidity management, performance evaluation, and corporate governance to give you a complete financial decision-making framework. By the end of this course, you will confidently apply corporate finance principles in business, investment, and strategic roles, making you job-ready for finance careers and professional certifications like CFA and FRM.

Syllabus

  • Foundations of Investment Decision-Making
    • Learn how to evaluate long-term investments using NPV, IRR, and DCF techniques while understanding cost of capital and project ranking decisions.
  • Cost of Capital & Financing Strategy
    • Understand how firms determine cost of capital, optimize capital structure, and use leverage to balance risk and return in financing decisions.
  • Payout Policies & Working Capital
    • Explore dividend strategies, share repurchases, and working capital management to optimize liquidity and shareholder value.
  • Liquidity, Performance & Governance
    • Analyze liquidity management, performance evaluation, and governance frameworks to ensure financial stability and ethical decision-making.

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