
Explore the six pillars of finance—concept and structure of business, cash flows, risk, honest measurement, time value of money, valuation, and financial markets.
Explore the concept and structure of business from finance, and compare accounting versus finance balance sheets, focusing on assets in place, present assets, growth assets, and cash flows.
Finance is forward looking, based on future cash flows rather than historical cost; balance sheet shows assets in place and growth assets funded by debt and equity through corporate lifecycle.
Define risk as a chance of negative outcomes and explore its dual nature with reward, explaining risk management, risk aversion, loss aversion, break-even effect, and framing effects.
Explore how to measure risk in finance using the mean-variance framework, convert risk into a risk premium, and compare expected versus actual returns.
Explore form-specific and market risks in business investments. Learn how diversification reduces firm-specific risk but cannot eliminate macroeconomic risk.
Explain how the discount rate brings future cash flows to present value, illustrating time value of money and the impact of current consumption preference, inflation, and uncertainty.
Value a risk-free government bond by discounting 10 years of 40-dollar coupons and a 1000-dollar face value at a 3 percent market rate.
Explore how bond convexity causes asymmetric price responses to interest-rate changes, and compare how maturity and coupon rate affect bond sensitivity in pricing.
Explore put options, their right to sell at a fixed strike price, premiums, and expiration, with payoff dynamics showing profit when prices fall below the strike minus premium.
Learn how to convert nominal cash flows to real cash flows and vice versa by incorporating inflation and compounding, using the real rate formula and present value calculations.
Explore the sixth pillar of finance, interest rates, and identify four groups: market set rates, market influenced rates, entity-set rates, and negotiated rates, anchored by the bond market.
Explore how the sixth pillar of finance explains currency inflation differences, exchange rates, real returns, and interest rates, with examples and forward-market forecasting.
About This Class
One of the most intuitive Finance courses available on Udemy, It aims to teach finance and its fundamentals so that is accessible to all.
We will start with building a solid foundation and discuss in depth detail about the fundamental building blocks of finance using practical examples and techniques.
Why Fundamentals of Finance ? Why the course matters?
Because Finance is the reason for every decision a company, organization and a business makes.
Take any company of any size, their every decision be it Strategy, Marketing, HR, Production is always always about the bottom line i.e. “earnings and cash flows"
There is a reason financial professionals are valued extremely highly in any business, company or organization and why finance is one of the most promising and lucrative career today.
If you are undertaking a financial course , this course will greatly help you understand the basic fundamentals of finance.
FINANCE AS A CAREER
Finance is the most financially rewarding and lucrative career even in today's harsh times .Having a solid understanding and grasp of finance and its fundamentals are the Prerequisite for rising in your career and your business.
AFTER DOING THIS COURSE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO
Have a solid understanding of fundamentals of finance.
Will have a much higher understanding than a person from accounting background
Learn how to see the financial statements from financial point of view
Understand the difference between cash flows and accounting earnings and how to measure them
Understand how a financial analyst understands and measure risk
Understand the most important Risk Reward model -Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM Model)
Understand Time value of money and how to calculate present value of Cash flows
Learn how Bonds, Options and Equity are valued
Learn how interest rates, yield curve , inflation , exchange rates affect our lives and
businesses.
Who this course is for:
Anyone interested in how finance works (no prior experience in finance is needed).
Aspiring MBA and Financial Analysts
Entrepreneurs
Aspiring Investment Bankers
Accounting Students who wants to move further in their careers
Anyone wishing to be successful in the world of Business & Finance
How this course is different from other courses?
The entire course is taught using extensive examples and case studies.
Nothing is assumed and everything is taught.
The instructor is himself a qualified chartered accountant and M.B.A. (Finance) teaching for more than 8 years with real work experience working with Big 4 accounting firms.
The course is not a collection of boring lectures and there are certain things you can not understand just by googling it. The course teaches you the art of finance in a cohesive manner.
And finally if you don't like it , there is a money back guarantee. If you don't find the course interesting , you will get your money back.