What will you learn?

  • Communicate & collaborate with stakeholders & business/financial leaders using the right terminology and vocabulary
  • Learn about fundamental finance concepts
  • Develop skills in interpreting financial statements
  • Analyze product P&L to identify trends
  • Apply finance concepts learned in the last term to create bottom-up financial models for businesses
  • Understand the basics of Enterprise Valuation, Pre & Post Money Equity valuation
  • Gain proficiency in designing and presenting financial data

Pre-requisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Description

This course will introduce learners to the fundamentals of business finance. The emphasis is on practical applications and problem-solving techniques. The course is designed to introduce learners to the financial decision-making process that will provide insight for the necessity to consider the financial implications of any managerial decision. The learners will be equipped with tools to understand and solve basic financial problems that a business confronts. You will learn about accounting principles, time value of money, costing that form the core of any financial decision. This course is hands-on and will provide the learners an opportunity to apply finance theory to real business cases. Learners will learn to decipher a business problem in terms of what the finance theory says about it, what decision can be made, how the management should be presented with solutions. Learners will learn how to present financial data effectively. The emphasis is on practical applications and problem-solving techniques.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Chapter 1 - Finance & Accounting for Managers

  • 2

    Chapter 2 - Accounting : Understanding Financial Statements

  • 3

    Chapter 3 - Basic of Investment Evaluation : The Tools

  • 4

    Chapter 4 :The Basics of Investment Evaluation

  • 5

    Chapter 5 - Investment Evaluation: How to deal with cash flows of Differing time periods

  • 6

    Chapter 6 - A Capital Budgeting problem

  • 7

    Conclusion

  • 8

    Curated Learning Library