Corporate Finance
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Course overview
- Provider
- Coursera
- Course type
- Free online course
- Level
- Intermediate
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 28 hours
- Certificate
- Paid Certificate Available
- Course author
- Irina Ivashkovskaya
Description
Corporate Finance course develops a conceptual framework to analyze the broad area of corporate financial decisions (investing, financing, payout, strategic deals). It provides the prevailing empirical evidence for the motives and impact of corporate performance in developed and emerging capital markets. The online course covers topics in corporate financial architecture (e.g. governance issues, board’s role), ownership structure, and corporate performance of a firm. Corporate Finance course develops a conceptual framework to analyze the broad area of corporate financial decisions (investing, financing, payout, strategic deals). It provides the prevailing empirical evidence for the motives and impact of corporate performance in developed and emerging capital markets. The online course covers topics in corporate financial architecture (e.g. governance issues, board’s role), ownership structure, and corporate performance of a firm.
During the Corporate Finance course, you will gain insight into both theoretical and practical aspects of Corporate Finance, including financing and capital structure of organization, its life-cycle stage and payout policy decisions. You will learn about the dilemmas of executives and shareholders and such recent trends as knowledge firms and zero debt capital structure.
Simultaneously you will solve tasks designed specifically so you could perform step by step analysis of a company's performance.
This Course is part of HSE University Master of Business Analytics degree program, which can be acquired by learning completely online.
After completing this online course students сan:
• Analyze company`s performance from a view of corporate finance
• Choose optimal capital structure
• Assess corporate financial architecture
The distant course consists of short video lectures from 10 to 20 minutes long, within which non-grading questions are embedded. Each week there will be a 8-question graded test, a peer-assessment paperwork, and a final
