Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Corporate Finance: A Beginner’s Guide
This online course explored key aspects of corporate finance. Topics included financial analysis, investment decisions, and capital budgeting, illustrated with real-world examples. Participants gained skills in evaluating investments and applying risk-return models. The course equipped learners to take more advanced courses in corporate finance.
5 weeks, 8 hours per week
Marco Ghitti
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
University of Padova
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Apply key financial analysis tools and techniques (reformulations, ratios, …) to understand a firm overall performance over time and across comparables.
- Apply the concepts of time value of money, present value, future value, and other basic tools of corporate finance.
- Calculate net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), payback period, profitability index to evaluate projects.
- Interpret the basic trade-off between risk and return in corporate finance and estimate the cost of capital.
- Evaluate a firm’s capital structure, determine the optimal debt-equity position and dividend policy
Syllabus
- Financial analysis
- Discount rates and the time value of money
- Risk and return models
- Capital budgeting
- Capital structure
Issued on 28th April 2026
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