Finance Essentials (edX)
The Finance Essentials course on Edx is designed for students who want to study finance in an MBA program. An educator teaches it from Imperial BusinessX, the Imperial College Business School's free online learning branch. The course is free to audit, but you'll have to pay $79 if you want a certificate of completion and other premium features like access to an expert online instructor and graded assignments. Capital budgeting, bonds, equities, and diversification are among the topics discussed. This course, which takes six weeks to complete at two to four hours each week, requires high school arithmetic as a prerequisite. Finance Essentials is the most customized course in our guide for learners interested in entering business school in the future.
What you'll learn:
- How can the time value of money be used to value assets?
- Understanding how to allocate assets for retirement Understanding capital budgeting for a project (such as a flat or house purchase)
- Recognize the value of risky cash flows.
- What is the worth of a bond?
- Recognize how a yield curve is created.
- Learn how to value a firm and how to handle a portfolio selection challenge.
- Recognize how correlations and diversification options change over time.
- To determine the needed rate of return for hazardous assets, use the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
This course offers:
- Institutions: ImperialBusinessXImperialX
- Subject: Business & Management
- Level: Introductory
- Prerequisites: Secondary school (high school) math
- Language: English
- Video Transcript: English
- Associated programs: Professional Certificate in PreMBA Essentials for Professionals
Price: Free in the audit track; $79 in the verified track
Time to complete: 6 weeks (2-4 hours a week)
Prerequisites required: Yes
Flexible schedule: Yes
Includes verified certificate of participation: Yes for verified track only
Link: https://www.edx.org/course/finance-essentials
