Corporate Finance for Non-Financial Professionals

What you’ll learn
Take control of your financial destiny both personally and professionally.
Read, Understand, and Analyze Financial Statements. Financial Statements are the core documents of any business or enterprise.
Distinguish yourself from your colleagues with a new financial skillset.
Learn the gold standard tools of financial valuation and decision making.

Requirements
No experience required.

Description
Becoming familiar with financial statements and how they are interconnected and flow is a critical skill set for enhancing your career and understanding of business.

Financial statements also underlay Discounted Cash Flow analysis, NPV, IRR, and all the valuation techniques of finance. We will now spend some time thoroughly understanding financial statements.

Knowing how to read and understand financial statements is a business skill you can’t ignore. It can help working your way up the corporate ladder by communicating with others in your company and understanding the big picture. It is also a useful skill in order to understand where your efforts and work can make the most impact.

When you are thinking about possibly changing jobs and working for a company you can check their financials and make sure they are a healthy organization. If you are considering starting your own company you will need to have financials prepared by your accountant in order to talk to investors, bankers and vendors.

If you want to invest wisely in the stock market, analyze the competition or benchmark your performance, you can look up the financials of any publicly traded company at the Securities and Exchange Commission website’s’ EDGAR filings and get an idea of how they are doing. Check out any public company’s most recent 10K filing there. A 10K is the Annual Report of the company and its most important business and financial disclosure document.

Who this course is for
Entrepreneurs, employees, managers, and anyone interested in enhancing their career and opportunities with an essential skillset.