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An Overview of Corporate Finance

Online
3-4 hours
Free

Course Content

Learn how to analyze corporate finances as well as organizational financial planning with this free online course. Managing corporate finance and its related financial principles are essential to business success. This free online finance course teaches you the purpose and importance of corporate finance, appropriate short- and long-term financial planning as well as how to analyze these outcomes. You will also learn about profitability and how to maintain it during tough financial times in this free online Overview of Corporate Finance course.

Course Details

CollegeAlison
Course ID201752
Course TypeOnline Learning
Course QualificationCPD Certificate
Course Duration3-4 hours
Course FeeFree
Entry RequirementsLike 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 PathWhat You Will Learn In This Free Course
• Define corporate finance and its ultimate purpose for an organization
• Describe the activities performed by corporate financial experts
• Explain how to make sound goals for a company in the short and long term
• Identify the various forms of debt financing, analysis methods and liquidity ratios
• Analyze a company's financial data using analytical tools and ratios
• Outline the processes involved in making capital investment decisions
• Define the basic concept of financial risk
• Explain how to manage profitability during a financial downturn
• Outline the multiple acts and their amendments used to create the framework of the financial industry
• Recognize the responsibilities and tasks a corporate finance professional could face during their career
Course Code3018

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