Free online courseCorporate Finance MBA Class

Course Description

Strengthen your decision-making in corporate finance by learning how companies really choose projects, fund growth, and create value over time. This free online course takes you through the thinking used in MBA-level finance: starting with what corporate finance is and what objective guides financial decisions, then moving into the practical trade-offs leaders face when markets, incentives, and ethics collide.

You will connect risk to return and learn how investors price uncertainty, why equity risk premiums matter, and how to interpret beta beyond a single spreadsheet output. The course also helps you understand when different estimation approaches break down and what to do instead, so you can build judgments that hold up across industries and countries.

As you progress, you will develop a clear view of the cost of capital and why it is central to making sound investment decisions. You will practice the mindset that separates accounting results from real economic performance by translating earnings into cash flows and evaluating projects under uncertainty. You will also see how tools like NPV fit into a broader decision framework, including the practical reasons professionals look beyond a single metric when capital is limited or assumptions are fragile.

On the financing side, you will learn how debt affects value, risk, and flexibility, and how companies balance the benefits of leverage with the realities of distress costs and ratings. You will explore how financing choices evolve across the business lifecycle and what it means to design debt that matches a firm’s cash flows. The course then connects payout policy to value by examining dividends, free cash flow to equity, cash balances, and the strategic reasons companies return capital.

Finally, you will bring the pieces together through valuation, building intuition for how assumptions drive outcomes and how to communicate financial reasoning with clarity. By the end, you will have a stronger grasp of corporate finance concepts you can apply to interviews, case discussions, and real workplace decisions across business and marketing roles that touch financial performance.