Corporate Finance: Financial Analysis and Decision-Making

☑ List corporate finance topics and understand them in a comprehensive way

☑ Have a comprehensive corporate finance recourse to use as a reference in future endeavors

☑ How to read & analyze financial statements

☑ How to read & analyze financial statements

☑ How to use Excel or Google Sheets to work many practice problems

☑ List common financial ratios, understand how they are used, and calculate them

☑ Create forecasts and and budgets

☑ Explain what break-even analysis is, how it is used, and how to perform calculations

☑ Understand how to make financing decisions

☑ Be able to apply management of current asset concepts to run a more efficient operation

☑ List issues related to short term financing and make short term financing decisions

☑ Understand time value of money concepts

☑ Know when to apply time value of money principles

☑ Be able to calculate present value and future value using multiple methods

☑ Calculate the valuation of bonds

☑ Calculate the valuation of preferred stock

☑ Calculate the valuation of common stock

☑ Explain the concept of cost of capital and apply it to debt and equity financing

☑ Describe to make long term capital budgeting decisions using time value of money concepts

☑ Calculate net present value (NVP)

☑ Calculate internal rate of return (IRR)

☑ Describe what capital markets are and how the can be used by a corporation

☑ Explain what investment banking is and how it can be useful to a corporation

☑ Be able to make long term debt and lease financing decisions

☑ Define dividends and understand how to make corporate dividend policy

☑ Define convertible bonds and analyze them impact of them to the company and to investors

☑ Explain what mergers and acquisitions are and common issues related to them

☑ Understand how foreign currency transactions can impact financial decisions

☑ Calculate foreign currency exchanges

☑ Explain what forward contracts are and how they can be used

We will learn how to read financial statements and how to use them for decision making.

A primary tool we will use is ratio analysis. Ratio analysis is a very useful skill in a wide area of topics, and financial analysis is a great place to learn the skill.

Ratios are necessary when measuring performance, including most any job performance. For example, we must apply ratio analysis when measuring the job performance of sports athletes. Similar ratio analysis will apply to most any job performance, and also apply to the performance of corporations.

Once we analyze the past performance of a corporation, we can use this knowledge to predict future performance, helping us make decisions about the company, whether those decisions be investment-related, creditor related, or managerial.

This course will include many example problems using both a presentation format and a spreadsheet format.

Corporate finance is a wonderful tool to learn, improve, and practice Excel or Google Sheets spreadsheet skills. Every spreadsheet practice problem will include a downloadable Excel file, that can be opened with Google Sheets, containing at least two tabs, one with the answer, the other with a preformatted worksheet to be filled in along with a step by step instructional video.