Corporate Finance I: Measuring and Promoting Value Creation
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About this course: In this course you will learn how to use key finance principles to understand and measure business success and to identify and promote true value creation. You will learn how to use accounting information to form key financial ratios to measure a company’s financial health and to manage a company's short-term and long-term liquidity needs. You will also learn how to use valuation techniques to make sound business investment and acquisition decisions. Finally, you will learn how to incorporate risk and uncertainty into investment decisions and how to evaluate the performance of existing investments. Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to: • Understand how companies make investment decisions that create value for shareholders • Use accounting statements to measure the financial health of a company • Forecast and manage a company’s short- and long-term liquidity needs • Measure the contribution of a new project or acquisition to shareholder value • Incorporate risk into investment decisions using the appropriate discount rates • Evaluate the performance of a company or divisions of a company This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and onlinemba.illinois.edu.
Created by:Â Â Â University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Taught by:Â Â Â Â Heitor Almeida, Professor of Finance, Stanley C. and Joan J. Golder Chair in Corporate Finance
Department of Finance, College of Business
Basic Info
Course 5 of 7 in the Financial Management Specialization.
Commitment
2-4 hours/week
Language
English
How To Pass
Pass all graded assignments to complete the course.
Course 5 of Specialization
Become a Strategic Financial Manager . Develop an integrated financial management framework.
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