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About the Course

This course provides a brief introduction to the fundamentals of finance, emphasizing their application to a wide variety of real-world situations spanning personal finance, corporate decision-making, and financial intermediation. Key concepts and applications include: time value of money, risk-return tradeoff, cost of capital, interest rates, retirement savings, mortgage financing, auto leasing, capital budgeting, asset valuation, discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, net present value, internal rate of return, hurdle rate, payback period....

Top reviews

ZZ

Sep 26, 2021

An excellent course overall. I really enjoyed the learning experience and look forward to more courses from Wharton. Special thanks to professor Michael Roberts for providing great value in 1 course.

LL

Oct 21, 2016

The professor is very patient, he spends a lot of time making sense of the equations and the calculation process, which helps me comprehend the concepts and their application really a lot. Thank you!

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By Bryan R

Feb 7, 2020

The professor did an excellent job taking his time where he needs to, also I really liked the lesson tips.

By Youssof O

Aug 28, 2016

Fantastic introductory course, should really be required for everyone. Excellent delivery with enthusiasm.

By Abhishek S D

Mar 3, 2022

Lucid language and in-depth explanations make life easier. Overall, a very good course for beginners....!

By Nguyệt L M

Feb 20, 2021

This course is very useful and great for me. It is clear and easy to understand. Recommend you to study.

By Ada Z

Jan 13, 2019

An eye-opening course. I won't never even to calculate my money without thinking about the Time Value :)

By Bettye D

Nov 19, 2018

Great interactive materials, great professor, easy to digest subject matter and teaching style. Thanks!

By William D R F

Nov 5, 2017

I really like the methodology. It's a good way to get to know skills like the ones shown in this course.

By Elvin

Jan 29, 2016

An excellent course!

Thanks to Professor Roberts for this important, interesting and high quality course!

By Peter B

Apr 4, 2022

I am able to appreciate finance and how the organisations make critical decisions on project financing.

By LARE Y D

May 2, 2016

I really enjoyed learning with the Professor. Thanks for Wharton school for giving us this opportunity.

By Huynh M Q

Jan 21, 2016

Great course. It helps me a lot to understand the fundamental background of decision making in finance.

By Ananya S T

Jun 12, 2020

This course has been very helpful. All materials are provided properly. Instructions were really good.

By Udi A

May 17, 2020

great course it could be helpful if except the final quiz in each chapter there was a practice session

By Samuel E

Nov 9, 2019

Excellent delivery, great analysis. The professor is unassuming and breaks topics into minute details.

By Christian J K

Mar 26, 2019

A useful introduction to corporate finance for those for whom numeracy is not their greatest strength.

By Kasthuri S

Feb 20, 2024

One of the best and finest course for beginners who aspire to learn about the foundations of finance.

By Ryan B

May 22, 2020

Great class. Initial classes were difficult, but the lessons made the last two courses much easier.

By Alberta N O Q

Jan 8, 2019

Coursera has made me learn a lot and I say a big thanks for allowing me to study with less problems.

By Daniel M

Dec 2, 2017

Great course. Provides the initial tools to start an educated evaluation of any financial decision.

By Blas S

Feb 13, 2016

The instructor presented basic concepts that are important for corporate finance with good examples.

By Rahul S

Dec 21, 2015

Superbly structured,eloquent and very well presented. Made me feel finance isn't that big a demon :)

By Diego C

Mar 22, 2020

It's very useful to have an introduction to corporate finances and how to take financial decisions.

By Jayvee B A

Sep 4, 2022

Ok so here is my generic review: A very well taught course and quite effective as a learning tool.

By Alison P

Jan 13, 2022

This is certainly not my area of experitse but this was very informative and helpful to my career!

By Xuan L P

Oct 29, 2021

This is a good introduction course for non-financial background students like me. Highly recommend