Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
This course covered topics such as time value of money, present and future value, DCF, annuities, efficient market hypothesis, capital asset pricing model, portfolio theory, stock, derivatives, capital structure, WACC, capital budgeting techniques, and ratio analysis. This course also covered company enterprise valuation method, stock valuation, option valuation, Black-Scholes, financial forecasting and seasonality, smoothing and errors. The course concluded with survey and research methods.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Ian Howell
Managing Director
FutureLearn
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Apply the concepts of time value of money, present value, future value, discounted cash flows and other basic principles of finance.
- Apply expert judgement in using the concepts and role efficient market hypothesis, capital assets pricing model, portfolio theory to optimize financial management.
- Apply techniques of time value of money, discounted cash flows in the valuation of share, bond and investment proposals.
- Perform fundamental company analysis, financial forecasting method, options valuation and numerical (pricing) and Black-Scholes model
- Evaluate a firm’s capital structure, debt and equity position and determine the optimal debt-equity position.
- Interpret the financial ratios and portfolio theory and practice management of a business.
- Calculate NPV, IRR, Pay Back Period, Profitability Index to evaluate projects.
Syllabus
- Finance & Free Market Economies
- Corporate Finance
- Company and Stocks Valuations & Derivatives
- Options Valuation & Pricing & Trading Analysis
- Financial Forecasting
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Issued on 31st October 2026
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