Introduction to Corporate Finance
What’s the difference between common and preferred stock? What are the liabilities of principals and agents? This certification course covers corporate finance.
In this free online certificate course, you will learn what criteria companies use when making financial decisions, and what the differences between bonds, options and derivatives, and preferred and common stock are. You will also study the stock exchange markets, types of market transactions, market indices, stock and corporation valuation, calculating returns, and principal’s and agent’s personal liabilities.
What You Will Learn In This Free Course
Introduction to Concepts in Finance
This module explains the ethical considerations involved in finance, the criteria corporations use when making financial decisions, what it means to own stock, what are the differences between preferred stock and common stock, and what rights shareholders have. You will learn how a stock is valued, and how to calculate an investment’s return. The module presents the largest stock exchange markets and their main actors, the types of stock market transactions, and the function of a market index.
Corporate Finance and Corporate Structures
In this module you will learn how an organization can finance their operations through bonds, different factors that influence the value of an option, uses of derivatives, and different types of options and derivatives. You will also learn about the principal’s liability in contracts, torts, and criminal law, the agent’s personal liability in tort and contract, and how agency relationships are terminated.
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