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Introduction to Finance and Financial Analysis

Online
6-10 hours
Free

Course Content

How can you make better financial decisions for your company? Learn more about corporate finance with this free course. What criteria do companies use when making financial decisions? This course delves into the differences between bonds and stocks, their advantages and disadvantages, and their uses and limitations. You will be introduced to financial statements, different types of financial ratios and how to interpret and apply them. The course presents pro forma financial statements and teaches you to use them for financial forecasting.

Course Details

CollegeAlison
Course ID195517
Course CategoryFinance, Business
Course TypeOnline Learning
Course QualificationCPD Certificate
Course Duration6-10 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
• Identify the criteria corporations use when making financial decisions
• Distinguish the rights and obligations of common and preferred stock
• Describe different ways of valuing stock
• Explain how a market index works
• Classify the other kinds of bonds and analyse their characteristics and risks
• Compare the different types of duration
• Define the purpose, uses and limitations of a financial statement
• Describe financial ratios, their uses and limitations
• Compare different forecasting techniques and analyse forecasting
• Define financial modelling and pro forma analysis
• Discuss the use of the rating system to evaluate the risk associated with foreign bonds
• Analyze the impact of taxes on firms
Course Code3373

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