This short course surveys all the major topics covered in a full semester MBA level finance course, but with a more intuitive approach on a very high conceptual level. The goal here is give you a roadmap and framework for how financial professional make decisions.
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Finance for Non-Finance Professionals
Rice University
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111,211 kürzliche Aufrufe
Karriereergebnisse der Lernenden
70%
nahm einen neuen Beruf nach Abschluss dieser Kurse auf
54%
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Kompetenzen, die Sie erwerben
Financial AccountingCapital BudgetingCorporate FinanceFinance
Karriereergebnisse der Lernenden
70%
nahm einen neuen Beruf nach Abschluss dieser Kurse auf
54%
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Ca. 17 Stunden zum Abschließen
Empfohlen: 6 hours/week
Englisch
Untertitel: Englisch, Türkisch, Arabischer Raum
Lehrplan - Was Sie in diesem Kurs lernen werden
3 Stunden zum Abschließen
Course Overview and Basic Principles of Financial Valuation Discounting
Welcome to Finance for Non-Finance Professionals! In this section you will find general information about the course and instructions on how to navigate the course. For the first week of lectures, we will be covering the basics of financial valuation. We will start with the basics of compounding and discounting rates of return over time. Using these tools we will then move on to valuation using the discounted cash flow method. Along the way, we will demonstrate our valuation tools with a variety of practical examples and compare our analysis with other valuation techniques.
3 Stunden zum Abschließen
15 Videos (Gesamt 101 min), 3 Lektüren, 2 Quiz
15 Videos
Course Overview & Demonstration1m
Week 1 Overview1m
Human Nature and the Time Value of Money7m
Compounding and Earning Returns Over Time11m
Basic Principals of Valuation and Discounting4m
Discounting Future Cash Back to the Present12m
Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) as the Basis for All Valuation6m
DCF Practical Example11m
Valuation by Comparables8m
Examples and Applications: Bonds8m
Examples and Applications: Mortgages5m
Examples and Applications: Annuities8m
Examples and Applications: Capstone Example5m
Conversations with a Practitioner4m
3 Lektüren
General Course Information10m
Discussion Forum Guidelines10m
Pre-Course Survey10m
2 praktische Übungen
Homework Assignment30m
Week 1 Quiz30m
2 Stunden zum Abschließen
How to Spend Money (Capital Budgeting tools)
Welcome to the second week of Finance for Non-Finance Professionals! In this week of the course, we will build on the basic valuation tools from week one to start making capital budgeting decisions. Our capital budgeting review covers the basic tools like Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return, Payback period, and return on capital. Our discussion of the relative advantages of each different tool leads us into sensitivity analysis and the advantages of spreadsheet modeling.
2 Stunden zum Abschließen
11 Videos (Gesamt 72 min), 1 Lektüre, 2 Quiz
11 Videos
Overview of the Capital Budgeting Process5m
Net Present Value (NPV)7m
Payback Period7m
Accounting Ratios7m
Internal Rate of Return (IRR)8m
Wrinkles with IRR8m
Using All the Metrics Together4m
Sensitivity Analysis7m
Spreadsheet Modeling9m
Conversations with a Practitioner5m
1 Lektüre
Real World Application: A Refresher on Net Present Value10m
2 praktische Übungen
Homework Assignment30m
Week 2 Quiz30m
2 Stunden zum Abschließen
Measuring Cash Creation and Flow
Welcome back to Finance for Non-Finance Professionals! In our third week together, we will go on a treasure hunt through the financial statements. Using discounted cash flows as our motivation, we search through the income statement and balance sheet for all the uses and sources of cash. Our search leads us to our primary measure of value creation: Free Cash Flow. Free cash flow will form the basis of most financial analysis and this module gives us a roadmap for estimating and forecasting cash creation within any organization.
2 Stunden zum Abschließen
10 Videos (Gesamt 60 min), 1 Lektüre, 2 Quiz
10 Videos
Brief Overview of the Financial Statements8m
Hunting for Cash Creation5m
Working Capital Adjustments8m
Depreciation and Capital Expenditures5m
Salvage and Terminal Values7m
Taxes3m
Calculating Free Cash Flow7m
Using Capital Budgeting Tools8m
Conversations with a Practitioner4m
1 Lektüre
Real World Application: Obama Administration Releases Report Outlining Benefits of Expensing Proposal in Encouraging Business Expansion, Hiring Now10m
2 praktische Übungen
Homework Assignment35m
Week 3 Quiz35m
3 Stunden zum Abschließen
How Much Does Money Cost? Evaluating the Cost of Capital
Welcome back everyone! In our final week together in this course, we switch gears and take an external view of the firm from a Wall Street, or capital markets, perspective. We think about the basic tradeoff between risk and return, how to measure risk, and how to put a risk premium on different kinds of investments. We then take our analysis of risk and return and use it to estimate a firm's cost of capital. Finally, we circle back to free cash flows, capital budgeting and valuation to tie together all four weeks and get ready for our capstone case analysis.
3 Stunden zum Abschließen
10 Videos (Gesamt 72 min), 2 Lektüren, 2 Quiz
10 Videos
Debt vs. Equity Financing8m
Risk Free Rate6m
Historical Risk and Return7m
The Equity Risk Premium5m
Beta and the Cost of Equity10m
Credit Ratings and Quality Spreads5m
Estimating the Cost of Debt6m
Putting it All Together as the WACC (Weighted Average Cost of Capital)12m
Conversations with a Practitioner6m
2 Lektüren
Real World Application: U.S. oil companies closer to balancing capital investment with operating cash flow10m
Real World Application: Why aren't companies spending?10m
2 praktische Übungen
Homework Assignment (Optional)30m
Week 4 Quiz30m
Bewertungen
Top-Bewertungen von FINANCE FOR NON-FINANCE PROFESSIONALS
von KHMar 27, 2020
Great Course, Very solid start for those who are trying to enter Finance world.\n\nIt makes you love this field if you are not familiar with it and have no previous experience.\n\nGreat Job Professor.
von JSOct 1, 2019
Very good overview of finance. For everyone looking, this is not specific to personal finance, but rather a general view and introduction to the most general topics. And a great one at that!
von SCMar 25, 2018
Very good learning experience.\n\nThe course is ideal for people having an interest in Finance! No prior knowledge needed!\n\nThe Prof. makes sure you are involved throughout the lecture!
von MSSep 12, 2017
This course exceeded my expectations and I strongly recommend for all non-finance professionals. I particularly enjoyed the teacher's ability to explain even the more intricate concepts.
von KHJul 22, 2018
The teacher did a great job explaining difficult concepts in a way they can be understood by non-finance professionals. I learned a lot of tools I can use in both my job and daily life.
von PMOct 31, 2019
Very insightful and refreshed the concepts I learned in a much better way! Professor was extremely good at conveying the course in the best way possible to comprehend complex topics!
von YMApr 22, 2019
An exceptional course that teaches all the basics of financial world to the professionals form every field. Concise modules which are taught very enthusiastically by the professor.
von LBMar 8, 2020
Totally enjoyable! Big thank you to Prof. James Weston, his team and Coursera for making this course available to al of us,the curious learnes wherever we may be on the Globe!
von MHOct 6, 2018
This course as the title suggests is actually required for non finance professionals to get an understanding of concepts in Finance. A very good and well structured course.
von MSJan 24, 2020
I really enjoyed the instructor's recordings. He made things very clear and his enthusiasim was infectious. I only wish he was one of my professors when I went to college!
von DRJun 22, 2017
Learned sooo much in this course. It taught me how to remain curious as the subject matter got more difficult. If you stick with it, you really learn to enjoy finance.
von AHNov 11, 2017
I would like to thank you for this amazing course, it is very helpful for non-finance and financial people at the same time. I believe it will help me in my career.
von MRFeb 16, 2018
I love the enthusiasm the Professor shows and having taken this course out of my own interest (pun intended), I find it thoroughly enjoyable and practically useful.
von PPDec 10, 2016
This is a full of content, very focused and well thought-out course. Mr Weston stays on topic and presents the material in a very coherent, logical, clear way.
von MPJun 14, 2017
very informative and well designed course that will provide you all the necessary finance info necessary if you are of an engineering or arts background.
von AJDec 10, 2016
I really enjoyed this course as a non-Finance professional. This is enabling me to better communicate with Finance resources on my team - on their terms.
von WWDec 17, 2019
Great material. The instructor made a very boring subject somewhat fun. I still think bankers are evil but at least I appreciate their work a bit more :)
von RRJan 11, 2018
Solid class and a great teacher that breaks this down into easily digestible classes with practice quizzes that test your understanding of the material.
von SRApr 4, 2017
Great course, learned a lot about reading financial statements and basics of conducting business valuation and investment assessment, very nicely done!
von VGSep 7, 2017
It is a very interesting course and I have learnt a lot of new concepts about every day finance which will be useful for my career in the future.
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