Do you want to improve your financial literacy?

Do you want to understand the basic finance terms like Compounding Interest, Time Value of Money, Net Present Value and Modern Portfolio Theory?

Do you want a class where you do the problems with the professor?

This is the English-immersion "Corporate Finance" course created by SEIB, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies!

We will help you get a strong foundation for Compounding Interest, the Time Value of Money. We will create a loan amortization schedule together as well!

You will learn how to use Excel Sheets to calculate the Net Present Value of capital projects.

We are going to learn:

Models for calculation of cost of common stock, cost of preferred stock and cost of debt;

Calculation of weighted average cost of capital and its use in investment appraisal techniques such as net present value, internal rate of return, profitability index, payback period, etc.;

Accounting for risk in investment appraisal techniques using sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, etc.;

Decision about whether to declare a dividend or whether reinvest the money in business;

Working capital management: management of inventories, receivables and cash;

Calculation of investment performance valuation parameters such as ROI, ROE, etc.

Financial risk management using derivatives and other techniques

Corporate finance managers are one of the most common users of financial information and they need to coordinate with other functions of the business such as production, marketing, administration, etc, and any business manager must have some financial knowledge. Let's start the fun journey of learning corporate finance!

为积极响应国家低碳环保政策， 2021年秋季学期开始，中国大学MOOC平台将取消纸质版的认证证书，仅提供电子版的认证证书服务，证书申请方式和流程不变。

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完成课程教学内容学习和考核，成绩达到课程考核标准的学生（每门课程的考核标准不同，详见课程内的评分标准），具备申请认证证书资格，可在证书申请开放期间（以申请页面显示的时间为准），完成在线付费申请。

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Textbook 选用教材

书名 《公司理财》

ISBN号 978-7-300-26832-3 出版社：中国人民大学出版社

作者 理查德•A.布雷利斯，图尔特•C.迈尔斯，艾伦•J.马库斯 版本：英文版 第九版

Reference Materials

Reading List 

This not an exhaustive list, or one that necessarily details seminal articles. It provides a wide cross section of easily accessible and recent articles, which can be used as a starting point for further reading and research. 

Where readings are marked * the papers may be downloaded free of charge from the Social Science Research Network web-site www.ssrn.com

Readings from the Journal of Corporate Finance and Journal of Business are available to download from the University Library’s Portia portal by selecting Business/Journals or by searching for the journal’s title in the Serials section of the catalogue. Off-campus access to most journals can be achieved by obtaining an VPN account name and password from the library.

Other items will be made available at relevant lectures.