1. Course Introduction
So welcome to this course, Corporate Finance Fundamentals. We are so excited
to share this course material with you. So in this course,
we will cover all the foundational aspects of corporate finance.
We're going to break the course into three logical sections. The first section,
we're going to cover capital investment. Section two, we're going to look
at capital financing and finally for section three, we'll look at capital
return. By going through these three sections of the course, we'll understand
exactly how corporations think about all aspects of capital allocation.
When we look at capital investment, we'll understand exactly how corporations
select the best projects to invest in to make sure that they're creating
value for the shareholders. For capital financing, we'll look exactly at
how the corporation selects the appropriate mix of debt and equity to finance
any investments resulting in an optimal capital structure,
and finally for capital return, we'll look at the different ways that corporations
can return capital to shareholders, if they don't have appropriate projects
to invest in. So we'll definitely cover the theories and concepts but more
importantly, we're going to apply all of those theories to practical situations.
We have plenty of Excel examples lined up for you to complete to
make sure that you know exactly how to apply all of the academic
concepts, that we're going to touch on. So we can't wait to share
this material with you. Let's jump in and get started right away.
2. Let's practice!