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Overview
In this Corporate Finance I - Measuring and Promoting Value Creation offered by Coursera in partnership with University of Illinois you will learn how to use key finance principles to understand and measure business success and to identify and promote true value creation. You will learn how to use accounting information to form key financial ratios to measure a company’s financial health and to manage a company's short-term and long-term liquidity needs.
You will also learn how to use valuation techniques to make sound business investment and acquisition decisions. Finally, you will learn how to incorporate risk and uncertainty into investment decisions and how to evaluate the performance of existing investments.
Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to:
- Understand how companies make investment decisions that create value for shareholders
- Use accounting statements to measure the financial health of a company
- Forecast and manage a company’s short- and long-term liquidity needs
- Measure the contribution of a new project or acquisition to shareholder value
- Incorporate risk into investment decisions using the appropriate discount rates
- Evaluate the performance of a company or divisions of a company
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Courses include:
- The Objective of the Corporation and Analysis of Financial Ratios
- Financial Planning
- Making Investment Decisions
- Mergers and Acquisitions, Risk, and Performance Evaluation
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Duration
- Part-time
- 1 days
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Language
English
Delivered
Online
Disciplines
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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General requirements
- Beginner level
- No previous experience necessary
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