Overview
What you will study
The Corporate Finance Fundamentals course offered by University of California, Berkeley is an online certificate program for practicing attorneys and other non-financial professionals that focuses on how to apply financial information analysis and corporate valuation in a variety of corporate settings and throughout the legal practice.
Through a series of recorded lectures and interviews, the course will:
- introduce a practical framework for financial information analysis
- provide an understanding of the key drivers of corporate value creation
- teach key valuation models and techniques
- provide tools for analyzing and interpreting corporate financial statements
- explore important ethical questions that arise when legal professionals deal with complex financial transactions and when there are allegations of fraud
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:- Corporate Finance
- Tools for Valuing Companies
- M&A Financing
- Financial Derivatives
- Raising Capital - Anti-Dilution Protections
- Event Studies in Litigation
- Ethics in Financial Lawyering
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 12 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApply anytime.
Language
Delivered
- Self-paced
Disciplines
Finance View 193 other Short Courses in Finance in United StatesAcademic 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.
Other requirements
General requirements
- In-house attorneys advising on corporate matters
- Corporate lawyers handling a range of business transactions for their clients
- Professionals in the public or private sector who deal with financial information on a regular basis
- No prior experience with, or knowledge of, corporate finance is required
Tuition Fee
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International
1000 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1000 USD for the full programme during 12 months. -
National
1000 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1000 USD for the full programme during 12 months.
- General Tuition: $1,000
- UC Berkeley alumni and government, nonprofit, and university employees: $800
- Non-attorneys (MCLE credit not provided): $800