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Corporate finance is a sub-category of finance that deals with the sources of funding and the capital structure of corporations and the actions taken by the managers to maximize shareholder’s value as well as the tools and analysis used to allocate financial resources. If you also want to be part of your organization’s financial decision making, take this free online course titled “An Introduction to Corporate Finance”.

Who should take this course?
“An Introduction to Corporate Finance” serves as an introduction to business finance for business school graduates preparing for upper-level course work. It has been designed to cater individuals (students and professionals) aiming to accelerate their corporate finance career and for organizations that want to integrate a Corporate Finance qualification in their development programs.

What are the benefits of this course?
This course will provide a market-oriented framework and tools for analyzing the major types of financial decisions made by corporations. It will equip you with advanced corporate finance knowledge, skills and expertise. It will also improve your day to day business experience that will not only help accelerate your own career but also enhance the value you can bring to your business or the organization you are working with.

Table of Contents:
Topics that will be covered in this course include:
- The Objective Function for Corporations
- Calculating Present Values
- The Valuation of Bonds and Stocks
- A Comparison of Investment Criteria
- Practical Aspects of the NPV Rule
- Measuring Risk
- Statistics Review
- A Theory of Asset Pricing
- An Introduction to Mean-Standard Deviation Analysis,  Diversification and Beta
- Capital Budgeting and the Capital Asset Pricing Model

Author Bio:
This free online course has been prepared by Franklin Allen. He is the Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Allen, who is currently Co-Director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center, has been on University of Pennsylvania’s faculty since 1980. His main areas of interest are corporate finance, asset pricing, financial innovation, comparative financial systems, and financial crises.

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