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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 Soumya M

Nov 29, 2016

Very helpful for people who want to learn the basic concepts of finance. The course material, practice material and the teaching are simple and effective.

By Aditya A

Apr 26, 2021

introduction to finance is a great course to understand the calculation of NPV, IRR, Free cash flow, Unlevered FCF, and much more about Corporate finance

By Katie Y

Jul 1, 2018

I really liked that the lectures were short, it allowed me to watch and re watch while keeping strongly engaged. Quizzes were short, which helped too.

By HIMANSHU S

Jan 28, 2016

Dr Roberts does a great job in explaining the concepts with concrete examples, plus assignments test your knowledge very thoroughly based on lectures.

By Joe L

Dec 10, 2015

Great course very enjoyable lectures and examples.

The only suggestions is more no grade exercises / homework.

Yhank you for sharing your knowledge.

By Florian W

Oct 3, 2022

Gives you a great first insight to Corporate. It's structured very well and the prof explains the topics in a very understandable way. Was great!

By Varun V

Jan 7, 2021

The course is excellent and prof is too good at explaining them Answers of sum of Questions in Quizzes are wrong Except them every thing is great

By Moinul A

Apr 1, 2020

It was a very interesting course. the quizes was very challenging. also, the instructor provided some valuable insights which is very refreshing.

By Abrorbek S

Dec 13, 2015

Very nice introduction to the corporate finance. I hope everybody enjoys this topic. Teacher is awesome. Thanks for easy-understandable lectures!

By Rauf U

Apr 20, 2021

Great content, really helped me learn the foundations of finance coming from an engineering background. Though quizzes had a few errors. Thanks!

By Saurav C

May 4, 2020

This course really helped me a lot gaining knowledge about finance in my student life.

I really thank coursera for this opportunity.

Best of Luck!

By Serge B

Apr 28, 2020

This basic Finance course provides you with valuable insights and everything you need to make an informed financial decisions. Highly recommend!

By Federico U

Apr 21, 2020

En mi opinión, es un curso muy recomendable sobre los principios de finanzas corporativas, que motiva a querer seguir aprendiendo sobre el tema.

By BRUMEAUX C

Jun 11, 2020

excellent course, very clear

however I would have liked to be able to correct my mistakes during the quizz and corrections would be very welcome

By Kristen E R

May 27, 2020

I really enjoyed the course. I still need a lot of improvement , but the material has boosted my confidence, understanding and ability greatly.

By Ujjwal S

Dec 13, 2015

Excellent course with well-defined quizzes at the end of each week. Would highly recommend to anyone who wants to start learning about Finance!

By Olivia E

Jun 5, 2020

This was an excellent course. All lectures and quizzes were well thought out, and the course instructor explained the material really clearly.

By David M

Jan 28, 2016

Really difficult subject, but instructor was clear and knowledgeable. With instructors like him, it's no wonder Wharton is such a good school.

By Amrish S

Nov 27, 2017

Comprehensive program that explains well into the topic. Professor have take the core o the subject and opened avenues to learn more. Thanks!

By Ronald M

May 28, 2017

A challenge initially to grasp some of the new concepts, but with practise doing and re-doing the quizzes, it seemed to be understood better.

By Andrew J

Jan 20, 2019

Very comprehensive course. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn about corporate finance or get a refresher like me.

By Andre W

Feb 15, 2018

Excellent overview of IR, but I felt that more questions would have been useful in terms of really drilling home the calculation concepts.

By Timothy M

Jun 22, 2017

Makes some potentially tricky concepts simple and memorable allowing one to quickly deploy them in practice. Well structured and paced.

By Hoang D T

May 1, 2021

Quizs are practical and not so difficult to pass. The course is so interesting and useful to both managers and individual. Thank you.

By Debdulal K

May 8, 2020

Outstanding course . I sincere and deeply appreciate all the dedication of all teaching members to present complex ideas very easily