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About the Course

This course provides a brief introduction to the fundamentals of finance, emphasizing their application to a wide variety of real-world situations spanning personal finance, corporate decision-making, and financial intermediation. Key concepts and applications include: time value of money, risk-return tradeoff, cost of capital, interest rates, retirement savings, mortgage financing, auto leasing, capital budgeting, asset valuation, discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, net present value, internal rate of return, hurdle rate, payback period....

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LL

Oct 21, 2016

The professor is very patient, he spends a lot of time making sense of the equations and the calculation process, which helps me comprehend the concepts and their application really a lot. Thank you!

ZZ

Sep 26, 2021

An excellent course overall. I really enjoyed the learning experience and look forward to more courses from Wharton. Special thanks to professor Michael Roberts for providing great value in 1 course.

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By Blas S

Feb 13, 2016

The instructor presented basic concepts that are important for corporate finance with good examples.

By Rahul S

Dec 21, 2015

Superbly structured,eloquent and very well presented. Made me feel finance isn't that big a demon :)

By Diego C

Mar 22, 2020

It's very useful to have an introduction to corporate finances and how to take financial decisions.

By Jayvee B A

Sep 4, 2022

Ok so here is my generic review: A very well taught course and quite effective as a learning tool.

By Alison P

Jan 13, 2022

This is certainly not my area of experitse but this was very informative and helpful to my career!

By Xuan L P

Oct 29, 2021

This is a good introduction course for non-financial background students like me. Highly recommend

By Jorge Q G

Sep 13, 2018

Learned topics that I will be able to apply almost immediately in my career. Thanks, very useful.

By Nicole H

Jan 26, 2016

There are cases where the problems are a bit up for interpretation, but the content is excellent.

By Meghana N

Aug 4, 2020

I loved this course. I was enlightened with the knowledge and will help me tremendously shortly.

By Jose E D C V

Feb 11, 2018

Very good. Could be better if similar exercises of test were applied as example on the lectures.

By ATUL S S

Aug 13, 2016

Excellent Course and The Instructor is Simply amazing,

Thanks to all the Team behind the Course.

By Alex G

May 2, 2016

I really enjoyed the teaching style and accessibility to people without strong math backgrounds.

By Francesco T

Apr 5, 2020

Very nice and clear course with good explanations and examples, easy to understand for everyone

By Zewen S

Apr 21, 2018

Short but absolutely useful! A good introduction to corporate finance for non-finance students.

By Aashish B

May 25, 2017

Wonderful course with a great introduction to basic financial tools, especially on NPV and IRR.

By Hangjun

May 10, 2016

very practical usage and clear explanation about all ideas in conjunction with relevant topics.

By Jonathan H

Aug 4, 2016

This teacher is unbelievable, one of my favorite classes I've every taken in my life. Awesome.

By Abhishek D

Jul 17, 2017

A brief introduction of the corporate finance. Includes the major tools used in the industry.

By Zeddy I

Apr 21, 2017

very useful, now I know what they mean by Calculate for IRR 15% in the board room meetings :)

By Nandini N

Oct 7, 2016

Great introductory course! The professor was engaging and explained all the concepts clearly.

By Bashiir A M

Jul 23, 2024

Super concept of corporate Finance. I would like to recommend managers to take this course..

By Debabrata G

Jan 10, 2023

Very good introductory course but it could have gone a bit deeper into Valuation and Pricing

By Chandrasmita T

Mar 14, 2020

The speaker was great to learn from, very much engaging. Looking forward for similar courses

By Shubham J

Apr 21, 2018

Great way for non-finance background individuals to learn the basics of time value of money.

By Keerthi A R

Sep 15, 2017

Highly recommended for those who want to kick start their knowledge about corporate finance.