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About the Course

This course provides a brief introduction to the fundamentals of finance, emphasizing their application to a wide variety of real-world situations spanning personal finance, corporate decision-making, and financial intermediation. Key concepts and applications include: time value of money, risk-return tradeoff, cost of capital, interest rates, retirement savings, mortgage financing, auto leasing, capital budgeting, asset valuation, discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, net present value, internal rate of return, hurdle rate, payback period....

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ZZ

Sep 26, 2021

An excellent course overall. I really enjoyed the learning experience and look forward to more courses from Wharton. Special thanks to professor Michael Roberts for providing great value in 1 course.

LL

Oct 21, 2016

The professor is very patient, he spends a lot of time making sense of the equations and the calculation process, which helps me comprehend the concepts and their application really a lot. Thank you!

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By Hui L

Jul 7, 2018

Very good intro course, my only complaint is that the professor speaks fast and glosses over so so so many "why" questions. I have to pause, calculate, Google stuff and make sense of a lot of his conclusions without explanations.

By Gerrell W

Jun 6, 2020

I think this class was fairly difficult for people who haven't taken many higher level math classes before. I think there could have been a few more examples provided in the lecture notes that are similar to the Quiz questions.

By Ahmad A

Apr 18, 2021

The instructor is excellent, examples were great with a lot of insights, but if I wouldn't be taking notes most of the provided slides are very short on content. Questions also had some remarks that I've shared separately.

By Jeffrey L

Feb 9, 2020

Decent course. The concepts were well explained. The spreadsheet example with NPV, sensitivity, and scenarios was great. However, I thought the content was generally lacking, specifically in practice problems and rigor.

By Vyom G

May 29, 2020

The course is quite well defined and the faculty has illustrated good examples of different scenarios. The quizzes on this course are relatively less challenging compared to other course quizzes in this specialization.

By Aashay V

Apr 6, 2020

The course material is nice but it would have been better if we were given the correct answers of the Problem set so that we can understand more about where we are going right and where we are going wrong.

By Ajit s k

Feb 9, 2016

Amazing, very lucid and crisp. Especially like the recap sections at the start and end of the videos. Quality of test questions is good, makes you work. Looking forward to more courses from Prof. Roberts.

By ritvik p

Apr 11, 2020

I learned a lot of very important concepts and their hands on application in this course. The only thing required was probably some more reading recommendations to develop outside of this course as well.

By Skyler C

Aug 16, 2021

The course videos were pretty good overall, he explained everything in the simplest terms but the quiz was just not up to par, a lot of the answers were wrong and they simply did not bother to fix them

By Daniela

Aug 30, 2022

It was a nice course, very in depth with all topics. Maybe for me it was a little too advanced, but with practice I could understand them so much better, specially with topics in third and fourth week

By Sue C

Jun 3, 2022

Content was good and well paced. However, it would have been good to also show how to work out the calculations using Excel as this would mimic the real life scenario as opposed to manual calculations

By Lazar I

Apr 7, 2020

It is a decent course with a great introduction to Corporate Finance. However, it would have been even better if it had a Final Exam in the end where it would recapitulate everything learned thus far.

By Denis R

Apr 8, 2021

The quizzes have some pretty glaring errors. Please recalculate values, since many questions have incorrect responses (i.e. none of the choices work, some questions don't even have a real solution)

By Yuwei Y

Dec 24, 2017

I think it is better to have financial accounting course first before starting this course. I just feel the assignments are too less because some course contents are not covered in these questions.

By Rafael P

Nov 14, 2020

Quizzes need to be updated so that all correct answers are options. Quizzes could also cover a wider variety of topics. That said, the information is presented in a way that is fairly accessible.

By JOVIKA N

May 6, 2020

Course was good to understand the overall concepts, however few terms like from where exactly the discount rates come from, concept of cost of capital, how the assumptions in values are made etc

By Christopher T K

Jul 24, 2018

This is a nice introductory course but it seems very light on material, especially what you are paying for. Believe it should be more thorough and cover more topics. Michael Roberts was great.

By Anurag K

Nov 10, 2016

Enrolling for this course is one of the best decisions i have ever made. Completely enjoyed and recommended for everyone who loves studying new things. Thank you Coursera & Wharton. Kudos!!!

By Jayesh G

Dec 16, 2018

I REALLY LOVED THIS COURSE. IN FACT I ASK THE MANAGEMENT TO PLEASE COME UP WITH MORE ADVANCED COURSES IN THIS AREA.

ALSO, I REALLY LIKED THE WAY THE FACULTY HAS EXPLAINED THE CONCEPT. CHEERS!

By Hank H

Jul 16, 2023

Instruction is phenomenal. However, I believe more practice sets would be helpful; and quizzes for weeks 3 and 4 are far too easy and encompass maybe 10% of the instruction for those weeks.

By Justin H

Dec 2, 2015

Great course. A lot of material covered and totally new concepts for me. Some more examples or splitting lectures into more videos, would have seen me absorb even more. Thanks all the same.

By mjgovani

Jan 7, 2024

This was a great course to get introduced to topics in Corporate Finance. It did seem all over the place but the test questions did help to practice what I learned. Overall a good course!

By Gautam A K

Feb 3, 2020

Introduction to Corporate Finance is a good course to learn fundamentals of finance and gain some knowledge on time value of money, risk-return trade-off, cost of capital, interest rates.

By Наталия Н

Jan 3, 2016

An amazing course. Challenging enough, informative enough, in other words, just perfect! I only wish there were more exercises to practice. The problems given are definitely not enough.

By Tushar G

Jun 22, 2018

Very Basic and short course. Interesting though. The professor seems to be new and is a bit conscious but he is good. Could be more deep and detailed like Accounting course by Wharton.