Overview
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The Think like a CFO Specialization will help you learn the language of finance. You will gain a firm understanding in Accountability, Operational Finance and Corporate Finance.
By the end of the specialization, you’ll know what questions to ask and how to fit the different pieces together in order to develop a diagnosis and action plan to resolve a company’s financing dilemmas. You will have gain the necessary skills to understand basic concepts and feel comfortable reading, interpreting and discussing financial statements for decision making and you will understand the hey financial issues related to companies, investors, and the interaction between them in the capital markets.
When you complete the Specialization, you’ll be able to better understand both business financial problems to make better decisions and your own personal financial decisions
Syllabus
Course 1: Accounting: Principles of Financial Accounting
- Offered by IESE Business School. Financial Accounting is often called the language of business; it is the language that managers use to ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: Finance for Managers
- Offered by IESE Business School. When it comes to numbers, there is always more than meets the eye. In operational finance, you will learn ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: Corporate Finance Essentials
- Offered by IESE Business School. Corporate Finance Essentials will enable you to understand key financial issues related to companies, ... Enroll for free.
Course 4: Corporate Finance Essentials II
- Offered by IESE Business School. This course picks up where Corporate Finance Essentials left, addressing other corporate finance issues not ... Enroll for free.
- Offered by IESE Business School. Financial Accounting is often called the language of business; it is the language that managers use to ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: Finance for Managers
- Offered by IESE Business School. When it comes to numbers, there is always more than meets the eye. In operational finance, you will learn ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: Corporate Finance Essentials
- Offered by IESE Business School. Corporate Finance Essentials will enable you to understand key financial issues related to companies, ... Enroll for free.
Course 4: Corporate Finance Essentials II
- Offered by IESE Business School. This course picks up where Corporate Finance Essentials left, addressing other corporate finance issues not ... Enroll for free.
Courses
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Corporate Finance Essentials will enable you to understand key financial issues related to companies, investors, and the interaction between them in the capital markets. By the end of this course you should be able to understand most of what you read in the financial press and use the essential financial vocabulary of companies and finance professionals.
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Financial Accounting is often called the language of business; it is the language that managers use to communicate the firm's financial and economic information to external parties such as shareholders and creditors. Nobody working in business can afford financial illiteracy. Whether you run your own business, work as a manager or are just starting your career, you want to understand financial information and be able to interact with accountants, controllers, and financial managers. You want to talk business! This course will provide you with the accounting language's essentials. Upon completion, you should be able to read and interpret financial statements for business diagnosis and decision-making. More importantly, you will possess the conceptual base to keep learning more sophisticated accounting and finance on your own. Do not forget that, as with any other language, becoming proficient with accounting requires constant practice.
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When it comes to numbers, there is always more than meets the eye. In operational finance, you will learn how to read the “story” that the balance sheet and income statement tells about the company’s operations. The insights you gain from this “financial story” will then become a tool for short-term decision-making at the top management level relating to current assets, current liabilities and the management of working capital. Finally, by the end of the course you will understand the financial consequences of managerial decisions on operations, marketing, etc.
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This course picks up where Corporate Finance Essentials left, addressing other corporate finance issues not addressed in the previous course, such as market efficiency, bonds, stocks, capital structure, and dividend policy. This course will help you to: ● Understanding the concept of market efficiency. ● Get an overview in issues related to bonds, such as type of bonds, their return (yield to maturity) and default risk ● Getting to know the valuation of stocks through the method of relative valuation (multiples) ● Knowing what are the sources that financial companies use to obtain capital for their projects ● Understanding two of the most critical decisions companies need to make: whether to pay dividends and if so, how much.
Taught by
Javier Estrada, Marc Badia and Miguel Antón