Corporate Finance

Ashok Thampy

Corporate Finance

Course Syllabus

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Welcome to Corporate Finance Course

This document will guide you through the course syllabus and provide important
information related to this course.

Pre-requisites

Basic understanding of high school mathematics.

Note: Please be sure that you are able to meet the pre-requisites for this course in order to
ensure an optimal learning experience.

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COURSE AGENDA

Week Section Name Topics Covered

Introduction

Forms of Business Organization

Overview of Corporate Role of the Finance Manager

1
Finance
Assets and Sources of Funds

Separation of Ownership and Management

The Corporation and the Stock Market

Introduction

Simple and Compound Interest Rate

Annual Percentage Rate and Effective Annual

Rate
2 Time Value of Money
Future Value and Present Value

Valuing a Perpetuity

Valuing an Annuity

Planning for Retirement

Introduction

Bond Terminology and Valuation

Yield to Maturity
3 Bonds and Stocks
Risk of Investing in Bonds

Stock Price, Dividends and Return

Multiples Based Evaluation

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Introduction

Payback Period

Capital Budgeting: Decision Net Present Value (NPV)

4
Tools
Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

NPV vs IRR

Profitability Index

Introduction

Capital Budgeting: Forecasting Earnings

5 Estimation and Estimating Free Cash Flow
Applications
Discount Rate for Capital Budgeting

Mini Case Study

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TIME COMMITMENT

Course Length

5 Weeks of content, 1 Week Break (Tentative Webinar)

Each week is released across the globe on Thursday, 03:30 UTC.

Weekly Commitment
4-5 hours per week. This includes the time spent in going through the course materials (videos
and reading materials), completing the assessment(s) and participating in the discussion
forums.

GRADING

Grading Scheme

The course includes End of Week assessments and a Final Proctored Exam. The format of
these assessments is in the form of multiple choice questions. There are 5 graded assessments
and 1 final proctored exam in this course. The score from each assessment will contribute to
the final score, which you can track using the Progress tab.

Note: The ungraded assessments are interspersed throughout the course to recall what you
have learnt so far. These do not count for final assessments.

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Week Weightage

1,2,3,4 and 5 10%

Final 50%
Proctored
Exam

GETTING HELP

For course-related questions, use the discussion forums.

For general edX-related queries, visit edX Help Center on the edX website.

For any technical issues, use the Help button on edX course page (screenshot attached
below).

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