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About the Course

In this course, you’ll learn the basic fundamentals of corporate finance. Based on the pre-term qualifying courses for Wharton MBA students, Professor Jessica Wachter has designed this course for learners who need a refresher in financial concepts, or for those who are learning about corporate finance for the first time. You’ll identify foundational concepts in corporate finance, such as NPV, Compound and Simple Interest, and Annuities versus Perpetuities. You’ll also learn how to apply the NPV framework to calculating fixed-income valuation and Equity, using hypothetical examples of corporate projects. By the end of this course, you’ll have honed your skills in calculating risk and returns to optimize investments, and be able to assess the right set of financial information to achieve better returns for your firm....

Top reviews

RB

Mar 17, 2024

The teacher is very knowledgeable but sometimes passes some topics too fast and its hard to grasp the concept and the idea. The quizzes are not according to the classes that are given.

CB

Mar 21, 2022

The notes for this course were excellent, and the lectures were concise and easy to follow. Prof. Wachter is easy to listen to and is relaxed and helpful in her explanations.

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By Jahad J

Feb 5, 2024

challenging, but gives top knowledge

By XU Y

Jul 29, 2021

i understand a lot.

Thank you teacher

By Anil T

Oct 10, 2023

great videos and study materials.

By Deleted A

Sep 18, 2022

short and easy to understand!!!!

By Ibirogba B

Jun 19, 2022

It's a very interesting course

By Greeshma S

Aug 12, 2023

it was excellent at teaching

By Artemi B

Jan 2, 2021

Great detail and information

By Ronika K

Dec 16, 2021

it was very knowledgeable

By mohamed o

Nov 20, 2021

It is super hard.

By Hana A

Nov 21, 2020

Great Experience.

By Nicole J

Feb 26, 2022

marking to hard

By Isabella C

Jun 11, 2021

Amazing Course

By Pu Z

Jun 26, 2020

More examples.

By Benadouda Y

Jan 20, 2021

The best ever

By Adam A

Oct 28, 2023

great course

By Mohamed A N

Oct 16, 2021

good course

By Pankaj K

Jan 3, 2024

Excellent

By Elfag H

Oct 24, 2022

Perfect.

By M. A

Oct 2, 2021

Excellent

By jian l

Aug 21, 2021

great

By Arvian S P

May 19, 2022

good

By Siying C

Aug 27, 2021

nice

By ÁLVARO M C

Jan 26, 2021

Good

By Michael H

Jan 21, 2021

The instructor and material was great my only complaints are with the Quizzes.

The Quiz questions can be frustrating because it is not always clear how to answer the questions. For example some you need to round to have the correct answer where as others you do not. It is also misleading when the blurb tells you how to write the answer as a dollar amount but then the correct answer is as a percentage. It would be nice is after completing the quiz you were given some help or the right answers so you could learn from your mistakes.

By Thomas A

Oct 12, 2022

The quizzes were pretty hard. Would have been nice to have a little guidance in solving the problems if you got them wrong. The questions probably could have been written better. One major issue I saw on the quizzes was some of the questions didn't clarify how many decimal places/commas/etc. you need to provide the right answer... If you didn't properly put in format that wasn't explained, you could still have the same correct answer but it would show incorrect. Overall, a good course though. Thank you!