Skip to 0 minutes and 4 seconds In Italian, we have an expression that goes, “chi più spende, meno spende”, which translates to whoever spends more spends less. Whoever spends less spends more. In short, it means that important things in life require investment. And investments must be evaluated contrasting costs and benefits. While this could apply to almost every situation in life, it makes perfect sense in business. When you invest in or run a company, almost every decision that you make has financial implications. Every decision that revolves around financial resources is a corporate finance decision. Corporate finance focuses on how to maximize business value by fine tuning, investment, financing and payout decisions. I am Marco Ghitti Assistant Professor of Business Administration here at University of Padua.
Skip to 0 minutes and 53 seconds Together with Ronny Zappella and Claudio Colombetti, my teaching assistants, we created this online course covering the main topics of corporate finance. This course will focus on the fundamentals of corporate finance, mixing important theories ranging from accounting to financial mathematics. Borrowing tools and techniques from statistics. With this skill set, you will get insights on the financial health and performance of any company. As well as tracking investments that maximize returns and minimize risks. The beauty of corporate finance is that it is truly global. Its principles and rules applies to every company and every investor in the whole world. So then why choosing the University of Padua to learn more about corporate finance?
Skip to 1 minute and 38 seconds For 800 years, the University of Padua has been an important cultural center fostering knowledge and research, as well as connecting people from all around the world. Our Department of Economics and Management is strongly research oriented with faculty members working at the frontier of knowledge and regularly publishing in the leading academic journals of their respective fields. We split the topics of this course into five weeks, each one of them relying on a wide range of different activities. Week one focuses on financial statements analysis. Week two focuses on discount rates and the time value of money. Week three focuses on risk and return. In week four, we will cover capital budgeting decisions.
Skip to 2 minutes and 19 seconds Finally, in week five, we will study capital structures of companies. This course is a great opportunity to build a solid base in corporate finance. Well rooted in the theory and connected to real life examples. Join it and have fun.
