Open University program

Corporate Finance: Risk and Return

Develop your understanding of key corporate finance concepts and build your specialist financial expertise to use in your career.

This program is part of the PgC Finance degree offered by The Open University

Learn to analyse the risk and return potential of investments

Are you looking to take on financial management responsibilities within your organisation? Develop your theoretical understanding and improve the applied and critical skills needed to succeed in your role.

On this program, you will cover topics such as analysing the return on investments and understanding the effect of real and inflation rates in investment. You will learn about the relationship between risk and return and their importance to investing and capital budgeting. You will also examine financial statements and corporate decision making.

Courses

3 courses

Written and delivered by experts in the field

The Risk and Return program has been developed by The Open University Business School.

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Who will you learn with?

I am a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the Open University and lead its MSc in Finance. My research is on the financing of innovative businesses, venture capital and frictions in financial markets.

I am a Chartered Accountant who, before moving into teaching, worked in the real estate investment and development sector. I have also been a director on a number of investment funds.

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