This comprehensive course covers everything you need to know about the proper financial governance of a formal company. In this free online certificate course, you will learn what criteria companies use when making financial decisions, and what the differences between bonds, options and derivatives, and preferred and common stock are. You will also study the stock exchange markets, types of market transactions, market indices, stock and corporation valuation, calculating returns, and principal's and agent's personal liabilities.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 195369 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Explain the role of ethics in finance • Identify the criteria corporations use when making a financial decision • Distinguish the rights and obligations of common and preferred stock • Identify actors participating in a stock market and the roles of financial institutions in trading securities • Explain how a market index works • Describe different ways of valuing stock • Calculate a company's stock price and average return of an investment • Explain the process of financing a firm through equity and bonds • Distinguish different types of options, warrants and derivatives • Recognize how the agent’s authority is acquired • Describe principal’s and agent’s liability |
| Course Code | 3371 |
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