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Corporate Finance Essentials II
  • Level Professional
  • Duration 8 hours
  • Course by IESE Business School
  • Offered by

About

This course picks up where Corporate Finance Essentials left, addressing other corporate finance issues not addressed in the previous course, such as market efficiency, bonds, stocks, capital structure, and dividend policy. This course will help you to: ● Understanding the concept of market efficiency. ● Get an overview in issues related to bonds, such as type of bonds, their return (yield to maturity) and default risk ● Getting to know the valuation of stocks through the method of relative valuation (multiples) ● Knowing what are the sources that financial companies use to obtain capital for their projects ● Understanding two of the most critical decisions companies need to make: whether to pay dividends and if so, how much.

Modules

Professor Javier Estrada's Biography

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Professor's Biography

Course Overview

    • 1 Videos
    • 2 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Introduction

2 Readings

  • Syllabus
  • Get help and meet other learners in this course. Join your discussion forums!

A look back to Coporate Finance Essentials

    • 6 Videos
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6 Videos

  • Risk and return
  • Correlation and Diversification
  • The CAPM and the Cost of Capital
  • Estimating the Cost of Capital
  • Project Evaluation
  • Corporate Value Creation

A look ahead to Corporate Finance Essentials II

    • 1 Videos
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  • A Look Ahead to Corporate Finance Essentials II

Market Efficiency

    • 9 Videos
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9 Videos

  • Market Efficiency
  • Factors determining Market Efficiency
  • A Myth
  • Levels of Efficiency
  • Fundamental and Technical Analysis
  • Four Important Points
  • Beating the Market
  • Investing
  • The bottom Line

Quizz

    • 1 Assignment
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  • Market Efficiency

Bonds

    • 10 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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  • Bonds. Introduction
  • Bond Issuers and Bond Types
  • A Simple Example
  • Valuation
  • Valuation. Case Study
  • The Yield to Maturity
  • The Yield to Maturity. Case Study
  • Risk. Default Risk
  • Risk. Other sources of bond risk
  • The Bottom Line

1 Readings

  • The Essential Finantial Toolkit

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  • Bonds

Stocks

    • 9 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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9 Videos

  • The Basics
  • Multiples. Two critical issues
  • Multiples. The P/E Ratio
  • Multiples. Benchmarks
  • Multiples. The Critical Question
  • Multiples. The PEG Ratio
  • Case Study. Part 1
  • Case Study. Part 2
  • The Bottom Line

1 Readings

  • The Essential Financial Toolkit. Multiples

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  • Stocks

Capital Structure

    • 6 Videos
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  • Capital Structure. The Basics
  • Debt Ratios and Required Returns
  • Case Study
  • Reflections
  • Two Final Points
  • The Bottom Line

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  • Capital Structure

Dividend Policy

    • 8 Videos
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8 Videos

  • Dividend Policy. The Basics
  • Relevant variables. Environment
  • Relevant variables. Clienteles and Growth
  • Relevant variables. Smoothing
  • Relevant variables. Signals and Taxes
  • Share Buybacks
  • The Bottom Line
  • Corporate Finance Essentials II: Wrap Up

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  • Dividend Policy

Final Quiz

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  • Corporate Finance Essentials II

Auto Summary

Corporate Finance Essentials II, offered by Coursera, delves deeper into corporate finance, covering market efficiency, bonds, stocks, capital structure, and dividend policy. Ideal for business professionals, the course spans 480 minutes and offers Starter and Professional subscription options. Learn about bond types, stock valuation, capital sources, and critical dividend decisions under expert guidance.

Javier Estrada
Instructor

Javier Estrada