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Professional Certificate in Corporate Finance

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Course Features

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Duration

3 months

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Limited Access

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Accessibility

Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Beginner

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Effort

4 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

This professional certificate program in Corporate Finance will teach you how to value a company, giving your skills the ability to make sound investment and financial decisions.

We will be covering:

  • Framework for Valuation (including, in special cases, the valuation of stocks or bonds and the evaluation of investment opportunities).
  • Firm valuation using free cash flow
  • Concepts of risk, return, and identification of the opportunity cost of capital
  • Other sources of funding outside the company

These concepts are the foundation for a career as a financial analyst.

This hands-on program will allow you to explore real-world cases and transactions, as well as learn how to create Excel models. It will also help you to understand concepts better.

This program is designed for individuals who want to improve their careers in a variety of fields, including consulting, investment banking, private equity and CFO track positions within a company.

This program is based upon the Columbia Business School’, MBA core course.

Course Overview

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International Faculty

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Post Course Interactions

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Instructor-Moderated Discussions

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Case Studies, Captstone Projects

Skills You Will Gain

What You Will Learn

Understand both the sound theoretical principles of finance, and the practical environment in which financial decisions are made

How to use the free cash flow method for firm evaluation

Apply frameworks for valuation and discounting

Value stocks and bonds

Compute the return on any project

Value a firm by projecting cash flows and calculating residual value

How to make investment decisions for corporations

Understand the effect of capital structure on the risk of the equity and debt of a firm

Measure risk and estimate the expected return of an asset based on its risk

Course Instructors

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Daniel Wolfenzon

Stefan H. Robock Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School

Daniel Wolfenzon is the Stefan H. Robock Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School. He received a Masters and a PhD in economics from Harvard University and holds a BS in economi...
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