Portfolio Management: Institutional & Personal Investing

Through a combination of videos, quizzes and real-world case discussions in our live sessions together, you will learn the following:

1. Time Value of Money
   Understand how time, inflation and uncertainty affect the value of money, and how this impacts financial decisions.
2. Cost of Capital
   Learn how firms determine their funding costs.
3. Investment Criteria
   Evaluate different methods for making sound investment choices.
4. CAPM
   Gain insights into risk, through a commonly used measure called “CAPM beta”.
5. Capital Allocation
   Develop strategies for the efficient allocation of resources within a corporation.
6. Market Shenanigans
   Identify and analyze unethical financial practices, from real-world case studies and examples.

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Analyze the theories and key terms in corporate finance.
• Evaluate financial management tools and techniques.
• Interpret financial data and financial policies of corporation.

The Corporate Finance course is designed for Executives who want to make informed corporate decisions and strengthen their foundational and applied knowledge of corporate finance.

To ensure you get the best outcome from this course, you will need a basic knowledge of accounting and Excel. Before beginning the course, we strongly recommend that you familiarise yourself with the following:

1. Basic accounting knowledge
   The below 3 topics in this Financial Accounting EdX course (free to enroll, without the certificate) will prepare you with the basic accounting knowledge needed for the Corporate Finance course.

   Topic	Estimated time to complete
   Financial modelling and Financial Sensitivities	2 hours
   Cash flow versus Profit, Accruals and Accruals Accounting	1 hour
   Capitalisation, Depreciation, Amortisation and Revaluation	1.5 hour

2. Basic Excel for finance
   In this course, you will be using Excel for workings and calculations. We strongly recommend you familiarise yourself with the short readings below, which cover some basic Excel formulas in a practice Excel workbook.

   Topic	Estimated time to complete
   Basic Excel Formulas - List of Important Formulas for Beginners	10 minute read
   Excel Formulas for Finance: An Easy Guide - ExcelDemy	15 minute read