This course is part of the Foundational Finance for Strategic Decision Making Specialization

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Foundational Finance for Strategic Decision Making SpecializationUniversity of Michigan

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This final course will cover more advanced aspects of bonds and stocks that will help you  make smart personal decisions and develop a keen understanding of how governments and companies borrow from us. You will better understand stocks and bonds valuation and take a deeper dive using real-world problems. For stocks, you will review what you have already learned and understand valuation. You will learn about growth, different types of growth both bad and good. You will also get an opportunity to apply these concepts in practice assignments. For bonds: you will review what you have already learned. You will learn about different sources of risk in bonds. Lastly you will get an opportunity to apply these concepts in practice assignments. 
After completing this course, you will have a deeper understanding of how bonds and stocks are valued and the risks involved in both. You will be able to apply this knowledge to understand the workings of a company and how it creates value. This will enable you to invest with more confidence and also bring a special and critical lens to a company’s decisions.

 This course is part of the four-course Foundational Finance for Strategic Decision Making Specialization.

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Course 4 of 4 in the

Foundational Finance for Strategic Decision Making Specialization

Approx. 12 hours to complete

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Course 4 of 4 in the

Foundational Finance for Strategic Decision Making Specialization

Approx. 12 hours to complete

English

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Gautam Kaul

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Week 1: Bond Valuation - Advanced Issues

This course follows the same pattern as the second course did relative to the first. In Course 3 we covered the basics of bonds and stocks with simpler applications. In this course, we will delve deeper into bond and stocks with an emphasis on applications. In the first two weeks we will be focused on bonds. Also the Practice and Graded Assignments in weeks 2 and 4 are deliberately structured to contain ten questions, with some overlap with Course 3 followed by increasing complexity.

2 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 31 min), 3 readings

Week2

Week 2

5 hours to complete

Week 2: Bond Valuation - Advanced Applications

5 hours to complete

2 readings

Week3

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Week 3: Stock Valuation - Advanced Issues

This module is probably the most interesting module in this Specialization because it shows you how any idea adds value by relating it to the price of a stock. You will gain a deep understanding of how firms create value and how growth may not be a good policy. All the concepts are introduced using applications. This module conveys the essence of value creation. You are encouraged to start Practicing the assignments.

2 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 39 min), 2 readings

Week4

Week 4

4 hours to complete

Week 4: Stock Valuation - Advanced Applications

4 hours to complete

1 reading

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I enjoyed the course very much. The instructor does an excellent job engaging the student and explains the material in an easy way to process and understand.

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About the Foundational Finance for Strategic Decision Making Specialization

In this specialization, you’ll focus on the mechanics and intuition of the main building block of finance — the time value of money. You’ll learn the structure and basics through assignments and tests that are introductory in nature but with real-world applications.

We developed this specialization with the express purpose of enabling you to understand and apply these foundational principles of finance to your everyday life. Understanding how to use finance for personal decisions will also help you understand and excel at making professional decisions. After the successful completion of this series, you will be equipped to make thoughtful decisions based on a framework that uses multiple advances in modern financial theory over the past several decades. The most important features of this specialization are: (a) it is an integrated set of courses with a focus on understanding both the theory and applicability of finance; and (b) it is applied in execution — everything is covered using examples. The four courses in this specialization all build on each other, use real-world examples, and include richly designed assessments/quizzes to test your knowledge and enhance your learning experience. Assessments will progressively build in complexity as you better understand the applicability of finance to complex issues.

Foundational Finance for Strategic Decision Making

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