This is an introductory finance course. The course could be called introduction to corporate finance, corporate finance, business finance.
This course covers 25 to 30% of the material covered on Business and Environments and Concept section of the CPA exam and 20 % of CFA level 1.
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Chapter 2
Financial Statements, Taxes, and Cash Flow (4 lessons).
Topics coveredBalance Sheet, Income statements, Corporate Tax, cash Flows for Corporation
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Chapter 3
Working with Financial Statements (4 lessons).
Topics coveredCash Flow and Financial Statement Analysis, Common Size Financial Statements, Standardized Financial Statements, Financial Ratio Analysis, Dupont Ratio Analysis.
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Chapter 4
Long-Term Financial Planning and Growth (3 lessons).
Topics coveredFinancial Planning Models, Financial Modeling Planning the Percentage of sale approach, Internal Growth Rate, Sustainable Growth Rate.
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Chapter 5
Introduction to Valuation: The Time Value of Money (2 lessons).
Topics coveredFuture Value if Money and Compounding Interest, present Value, discounting.
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Chapter 6
Discounted Cash Flow Valuation (6 lessons).
Topics coveredFuture value of Multiple Cash Flow, Present Value of Multiple Cash Flows, Present Value of Annuities, Perpetuities, Growing Perpetuity, Effective Annual Rate, EAR, Annual Percentage Rate, APR.
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Chapter 7
Interest Rates and Bond Valuation (7 lessons).
Topics coveredBonds, Bonds Valuation, Bond Features, Bond ratings, Different Types of Bonds, Bonds Market, Bonds Market, Real Interest Rate, Nominal Interest Rate, Fisher Effect.
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Chapter 8
Stock Valuation (5 lessons).
Topics coveredCommon Stock Valuation, Common Stock Valuation Zero Growth, Constant Growth model, NonConstanty Growth Model for Stocks, Components of required rate of return, Stock Valuation using Price to earnings ratio Multiples.
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Chapter 9
Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria (6 lessons).
Topics coveredNet Present Value, NPV, Payback Rule, Discounted payback Rule, Average Accounting Rate of Return, Internal rate of Return, IRR, Profitability Index.
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Chapter 10
Making Capital Investment Decisions (7 lessons).
Topics coveredProject cash Flows, Pro Forma Financial Statements, Projects Cash Flows, Net Working Capital, Depreciation Effect on cash Flow Analysis, Alternative Definition of Operating cash Flow, Cost Cutting Proposal using Discounted Cash flow.
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Chapter 11
Project Analysis and Evaluation (3 lessons).
Topics coveredNPV, Net Present Value, What if Analysis, Break-Even Analysis, Operating Cash Flow using sales Volume and Break-Even.
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Chapter 12
Some Lessons from Capital Market History (3 lessons)
Topics coveredHow to calculate Percentage return, Dollar Return, Risk Premium of Stocks, Variability.
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Chapter 13
Return, Risk, and the Security Market Line (3 lessons).
Topics coveredExpected Return and Variances, Expected Return of Portfolio, Portfolio Variance.
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Chapter 14
Cost of Capital (4 lessons).
Topics coveredCost of Equity using Dividend Growth Model, Cost of Equity using the Security Market line, Cost of Debt, Cost of Preferred Stock, Weighted Average Cost of Capital, WACC.