Corporate Finance: Decisions, Valuation, and Value Creation

Corporate Finance: Decisions, Valuation, and Value Creation is a Finance course designed to help you make smarter investment, funding, and valuation decisions in real business settings. Through a clear, practical approach, you will learn how financial statements, cash flows, and risk shape corporate outcomes and long-term value.

Master Corporate Finance To Make Better Value Decisions

• Build a strong foundation in Corporate Finance and the value-creation mindset
• Learn A practical guide to capital budgeting, valuation, capital structure, and working capital with Professor Michael Edwards
• Apply Finance tools to evaluate investments, manage risk, and estimate business value
• Develop practical skills you can use in real-world decision-making, from DCF analysis to dividend policy

A practical guide to capital budgeting, valuation, capital structure, and working capital with Professor Michael Edwards

This Corporate Finance course takes you step by step through the tools managers use to create value, assess performance, and choose between competing opportunities. You will begin with the foundations of Finance and learn how financial statements reveal a company’s health, then move into time value of money, cash flow forecasting, and investment appraisal methods such as NPV, IRR, and profitability index.

As you progress, you will explore the cost of capital, CAPM, debt financing, and weighted average cost of capital, giving you a solid framework for pricing risk and evaluating returns. The course also covers capital budgeting under uncertainty, business valuation with discounted cash flow, capital structure tradeoffs, working capital management, dividend policy, and mergers and acquisitions. Each topic is designed to connect theory to practice so you can analyze financial decisions with confidence.

By the end of this Corporate Finance learning experience, you will be better prepared to interpret financial information, justify investment choices, and assess how corporate actions affect value. You will finish with a stronger command of Finance and a more practical, decision-focused way of thinking about business performance and value creation.