Corporate Finance
Enroll

In the world of business, every decision carries financial implications. This course provides a thorough exploration of the foundations of corporate finance, focusing on fundamental principles and contemporary issues in financial decision-making. Over the course of 6 weeks, you will be learning and evaluating key financial theories, using and developing tools and techniques, and conducting hands-on financial simulations that are crucial for corporate financial decision making.

Course Trailer

Course Overview

In the world of business, every decision carries financial implications. This course provides a thorough exploration of the foundations of corporate finance, focusing on fundamental principles and contemporary issues in financial decision-making. Over 6 to 8 weeks, you will be learning and evaluating key financial theories, using and developing tools and techniques, and conducting hands-on financial simulations that are crucial for corporate financial decision making.

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

Key Take-Aways

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 corporations.

Class Structure

Video Learning

Before the live sessions, you will watch short video lectures lasting 20 to 40 minutes and complete assignments to cement your understanding of the videos.

Live Sessions

The live sessions are held in hybrid format, beginning with a review of the video lecture and followed by a discussion of the case of the day.

Duration

The course is delivered over a period of 8 weeks that includes 5 weekends of hybrid sessions.
Session starts on July 28 and ends on August 25, 2024.

July 28
August 4
August 11
August 18
August 25

from 7:00pm to 10:00pm (GMT+8).

Participant Profile

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.

Pre-requisites

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:

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

Basic Excel for finance

In this Corporate Finance course, you will be using Excel for some workings and calculations. We strongly recommend you familiarise yourself with the readings below:

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

Faculty

PROFESSOR JOSEPH CHERIAN

Practice Professor of Finance

Joseph Cherian is Practice Professor of Finance at the Asia School of Business and at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at the SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University (Visiting). He was most recently a Practice Professor of Finance and the Founding Director of the former Centre for Asset Management Research & Investments (CAMRI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School.

JASON YAP

Instructor and Lead Academic Manager

Jason Yap currently is the lead of the Academic Support team and an Instructor. He oversees the academic support operations and co-teaches Finance and Accounting. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and ACCA qualification.

System Requirements

The Open edX platform works best with current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari.

See our list of supported browsers for the most up-to-date information.