Course description
Finance forms a main part of the corporate world, and anyone with a concrete understanding can greatly benefit from it. Most of the financial problems facing most companies are about how to allocate money effectively. There are various options for this; money can be saved, borrowed, or used for a project, and projects can also be avoided or used with the aid of the lender. Corporate finance, at best, is how best to make better choices among the many available alternatives. This Rcademycourse will teach the delegates the art and science of developingthe best strategies for better decision-making by effectively using corporate financial theories. There are better financial policies and accurate financial instruments calculations with better decisions. It will also help answer why corporate finance is important and how it affects a company.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who should attend?
The Certificate in Advanced Corporate Finance Course by Rcademy is designed to educate senior corporate leaders in finance and other industries such as banking, division/departments, and accounting. Any professional from a different industry can participate: However, this Rcademy course is suitably designed to be ideal for the following professionals
- Financial consultants
- Portfolio managers
- Investments banker
- Corporate treasurers
- Investment managers
- Chief financial officers (CFOs)
- Any other professional who is interested in understanding corporate finance
Outcome / Qualification etc.
The following are the main objectives of the Certificate in Advanced Corporate Finance Course by Rcademy. It will enable the participants to:
- Apply the acquired knowledge to comfortably work with advanced theoretical and practical finance models
- Apply the learned techniques and methods to perform an accurate corporate valuation
- Discover various methods of preparing capital budgets
- Understand and determine the most optimal capital strategies
- Understand and prepare to handle international financial challenges, particularly currency risks, politics, and poor governance
- Develop an understanding that will strengthen their knowledge of global versatile financial markets
- Develop the required skills to make better financial, investments, and payout strategies
- Learn to examine various valuation models
- Understand the complexities of how mergers and acquisitions take place
- Apply the skills learned to make more efficient decisions regarding debts
Training Course Content
Module 1: Modigliani and Miller Theorem
- Introduction to the theorem
- Capital structure choice
- Shares price
- Applications
- Examples
Module 2: Financial Ratios
- Net present value
- Price-earnings ratio
- Issues with a price-earnings ratio
- Valuation ratios
- Diagnostic ratios
Module 3: Corporate Restructuring
- Consolidations and their Impact on Innovation
- The performance of acquisitive institutions
- Competitive challenges in banking
- Effects of long-run market
- Corporate spin-offs performance
- Case study: international example
Module 4: Corporate Governance
- Grant and stock exercise
- Lock-in contracts for shareholders
- Self-regulation and its roles, an example of the Netherlands
- Corporate governance
- Share prices
- Firm performances
- Trading volumes and their effects on shareholder’s lock-in contracts
- Transatlantic corporate governance reforms
Module 5: Capital Structure
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Firm valuation
- Information asymmetry
- Cost of capital
- Convertible bonds
- Valuation of mergers and acquisitions
- Taxes
- Capital budgeting
- Syndicated loans
- Bankruptcy and distress
- Case study: financing in the Dutch land
Module 6: Asset Pricing
- Assets type and their risks
- Risk measure for retail investments
- Stocks return momentum
- Portfolio risks and choices
- Interest rates structures
Module 7: Risks
- The capital market theory
- Risks and returns
- Capital cost, risk, and budgeting
- The arbitrage pricing theory
- The capital asset pricing model
Module 8: Options and Futures
- Basic concepts
- Extensions and applications
- Derivatives and hedging risks
- Convertibles and warrant
- Cash management
- Financial distress
- International corporate finance
- Credit management
- Financial models
Module 9: Valuing Stocks
- Conventions of quotations
- Constantly shrinking dividends
- Constant dividends
- Constantly growing dividends
- Calculations
- Nonconstant dividends
- Dividend expected yield
Module 10: Capital Budgeting Decisions
- Discounted payback
- Cash flow signs
- Payback
- Problems with the internal rate of return (IRR)
- Profitability Index (PI)
- Equivalent annual cost
- Average accounting return (AAR)
- Intuition on NPV (Net Present Value)
- Modified IRR
Module 11: Weighted Average Cost (WACC)
- Calculating the preferred stock cost
- The WAAC formula
- The before-tax cost of debt calculations
- The component cost of Equity
- Calculations involving WACC
- Effective rates
- Nominal rates
Module 12: Corporate Finance Tool
- Scenario and sensitivity analysis – Sensitivity analysis – Sample project – Scenario analysis
- Depreciation charts
- Valuation in options – Expiration value – Binomial pricing model – Black-Scholes pricing model – Put-call parity – Call before the expiration
- Estimating future cash flows
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