Corporate Finance

The course develops a conceptual framework to analyze the broad area of corporate financial decisions (investing, financing, payout, and strategic deals). It provides the prevailing empirical evidence for the motives and impact of corporate performance in developed and emerging capital markets

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About the Course

The online course covers topics in corporate financial architecture (e.g. governance issues, board’s role), ownership structure, and corporate performance of a firm.

You will gain insight into both theoretical and practical aspects of Corporate Finance, including the financing and capital structure of the organization, its life-cycle stage, and payout policy decisions. You will learn about the dilemmas of executives and shareholders and such recent trends as knowledge firms and zero debt capital structure. Simultaneously you will solve tasks designed specifically so you could perform a step-by-step analysis of a company's performance.

Course Objectives


01

The course gives an insight into the  aspects of Corporate Finance, including the financing and capital structure of the organization, its life-cycle stage, and payout policy decisions


02

Listeners will learn about the dilemmas of executives and shareholders and such recent trends as knowledge firms and zero debt capital structure


03

The discipline illustrates a step-by-step analysis of a company's performance

The learner will be able

1. To analyze the company`s performance from a view of corporate finance

2. To choose the optimal capital structure

3. To assess corporate financial architecture

4. To apply different financial metrics to understand the life cycle of companies

Course Syllabus

Week 1.Corporate Finance Framework for Business Analytics [1]

Week 2. Corporate Finance Framework for Business Analytics [2]

Week 3.Trade-off Framework: Designing Capital Structure Decisions

Week 4. Designing Capital Structure Decisions. Agency Costs and Information Asymmetry

Week 5.Corporate Cost of Capital

Week 6. Returning Cash to Shareholders. Disappearing Dividends

Week 7.Investment Decisions under Uncertainty

Week 8.Project




Teachers

Ивашковская Ирина Васильевна
Школа финансов: Профессор

Анилов Артем Эдуардович
Школа финансов: Старший преподаватель

Prerequisites

To master the discipline learner should have basic knowledge of Financial Markets, International Financial Reporting Standards, Theory of Finance, Econometrics, Corporate Finance

Graduation Document

Earn a Certificate upon completion

 

Learning Activities


Lectures

Online


Low-Stakes Assignments

Tests


High-Stakes Assignments

Final project



Cost and Conditions


21 000 ₽

Full access to the learning materials + Graduation document

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