This Finance Fundamentals course is a comprehensive program covering key topics in corporate finance, investment, and financial decision-making. It starts with foundational concepts including operating cash flows, net capital spending, net working capital, and basic financial calculations. Learners progress to time value of money, annuities, perpetuities, and loan amortization, developing essential quantitative skills for finance professionals.

The course dives into bond and stock valuation, covering interest rate risk, corporate bond calculations, dividend discount models, and stock pricing techniques. Advanced corporate finance topics include capital budgeting methods such as payback period, IRR, NPV, crossover rate, and profitability index, combined with sensitivity and scenario analyses to evaluate projects effectively.

Risk and return are addressed with variance calculations, CAPM, expected returns, and WACC, providing a deep understanding of portfolio and cost of capital concepts. The course also explains dividends vs buybacks, board of directors selection, and financial decision-making principles, ensuring learners can make informed corporate finance choices. Practical examples, exercises, and case studies are integrated throughout, making it suitable for finance students, professionals, and exam preparation for CPA, CFA, and CMA.