Basics of Business Finance

Name: Basics of Business Finance
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Basic Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis, Using Excel to build Financials

Created byBinny Mathews

Last updated 4/2013

English

What you'll learn

Learn fundamentals of a business and financial analysis
Become literate in Corporate Finance topics to help your job and MBA interviews
Save time and money by learning through self-paced online sessions
Learn Basic Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis, Using Excel to build Financials

Course content

5 sections • 24 lectures • 3h 56m total length

Lifecycle of a company7:16
Learn why a company exists, how it goes about doing business and what decisions a company makes
Lifecycle of a company
Why Business Finance8:18
Learn the role of Corporate Finance in professional decision making in a Company. Also learn how knowledge of Corporate Finance increases a company’s efficiency and profits. Learn the various roles that Investment Bankers play.
Why Business Finance

Revenue & Gross Margin12:25
Become familiar with the role of an Income Statement in a business. Understand all the information that is captured by an Income Statement and what decisions could be made by them.
Revenue & Gross Margin
Operating Expense & Net Income6:20
How do you calculate margins in a business? Why do some businesses have higher margins? Get all these answers in this module!
Operating Expense & Net Income
Gross & Net Margin Explained6:50
Why does Google have higher margins than Amazon? Is low margins a bad thing? Find out all these answers in this module.
Gross & Net Margin Explained
Advanced Income Statement17:42
Understand what are the different revenue channels and expenses for Domino's. Make some recommendations for Dominos to grow faster.
Advanced Income Statement
Revenue Recognition10:48
Why isnt all revenue treated the same? Is all incoming cash considered as revenue – why or why not? Learn all about this in the lecture.
Revenue Recognition
Expense Recognition6:40
Why is expense accounted for only after the service is done? Find out answers to these questions in this module.
Expense Recognition
Analyzing Dominos Income Statement - Revenue & Margins16:32
Discover the business behind those yummy pizzas you eat. Learn the business model behind running a world class pizza franchise.
Analyzing Dominos Income Statement - Revenue & Margins
Analyzing Dominos Income Statement - Debt & Interest5:28
Learn if Dominos has debt, does it pay any interest, how are all these calculated
Analyzing Dominos Income Statement - Debt & Interest

Balance Sheet Basics - Assets12:14
What is a business worth? Why do companies and investors focus on the balance sheet. Learn all about it here in this module.
Balance Sheet Basics - Assets
Balance Sheet Basics - Liabilities & Net Worth5:40
How does a business build its assets and liabilities. Check out these modules to learn this.
Balance Sheet Basics - Liabilities & Net Worth
Financial Crisis of 20088:24
We are probably living through one of the worst financial crashes of all time. How did this happen? Who is to blame?
Financial Crisis of 2008
Dominos Pizza Balance Sheet12:09
Get behind the scenes and look at the balance sheet of a billion dollar pizza company.
Dominos Pizza Balance Sheet
Analyzing Dominos Pizza's Balance Sheet7:08
How much cash does Dominos have? Did they take a loan to grow the business? How much do they invest in their restaurants? Get all these answers in this module
Analyzing Dominos Pizza's Balance Sheet
Double Entry Book-keeping9:12
Learn how to get a balance sheet to balance.
Double Entry Book-keeping
Working Capital and Debt / Equity Ratio and Return on Net Worth12:46
How do you ensure that a Business has sufficient cash for day to day operations? How does a balance sheet balance? Lean all this is this module.
Working Capital and Debt / Equity Ratio and Return on Net Worth

Cash Flow Statement Basics14:31
Learn how cash is monitored by a company and how this statement connects the Balance Sheet with the Income Statement
Cash Flow Statement Basics
Building a Cash Flow Statement8:37
Learn how to manage day to day cash in a large company.
Building a Cash Flow Statement
Analyzing a Cash Flow Statement8:05
Learn how to analyze the health of a company from the cash flow statement.
Analyzing a Cash Flow Statement
Capex7:28
Learn why not all expenses are included in the income statement. Some expenses are kept in the balance sheet.
Capex
Depreciation & Amortization11:02
Why is buying equipment for a company not treated as an expense? Why is R&D expense not treated as expense in the current year? Learn all these in this module.
Depreciation & Amortization
Taxes19:39
How do companies pay taxes and qualify for tax benefits. Learn about that in this module.
Taxes

Requirements

This course starts from the basics and assumes you have no background in Finance

Description

How will this Certificate benefit you

Wall Street Investment Bankers will teach you the fundamentals of a business and financial analysis
Become literate in Corporate Finance topics to help your job and MBA interviews
Save time and money by learning through self-paced online sessions

What Jobs does this Certificate prepare you for

If you are a Working Professional or College Student, interested in one of the following careers, then this course will teach you the basics - Investment Banking, Business Consulting, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Equity Research, Corporate Banking, Private Equity, Credit Research, Ratings and Risk Management.

How will you learn

100% Online self-paced course that you can watch from anywhere, any number of times

23 online videos - 4 hours of content that can be completed in 1 week

Course Contents

1. Introduction to Investment Banking

Lifecycle of a company
Why Corporate Finance

2. The Company and its financial statements

Revenue & Gross Margin
Operating Expense & Net Income
Gross & Net Margin Explained
Advanced Income Statement
Revenue Recognition
Expense Recognition
Analyzing Dominos Income Statement - Revenue & Margins
Analyzing Dominos Income Statement - Debt & Interest
Balance Sheet Basics - Assets
Balance Sheet Basics - Liabilities & Net Worth
Financial Crisis of 2008
Dominos Pizza Balance Sheet
Analyzing Dominos Pizza's Balance Sheet
Double Entry Book-keeping
Working Capital and Debt / Equity Ratio and Return on Net Worth
Cash Flow Statement Basics
Building a Cash Flow Statement
Analyzing a Cash Flow Statement
Capex
Depreciation & Amortization
Taxes

Who this course is for:

Working Professionals
College Student

Basics of Business Finance

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Course content

Introduction to Business Finance2 lectures • 16min

The Income Statement / Profit Loss Statement8 lectures • 1hr 23min

The Balance Sheet7 lectures • 1hr 8min

The Cash Flow Statement6 lectures • 1hr 9min

Conclusion1 lecture • 2min

Requirements

Description

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