Introduction to Finance, Accounting, Modeling and Valuation

Content

This online course teaches the key concepts of accounting, finance, financial modeling and valuation from scratch.

It includes topics such as:

• Analyzing income statements and cash flow statements
• Financial analyis of debt and working capital; ratios and margins
• Getting the right data to build a financial model
• Understanding valuation methods based on comparables and multiples, such as P/E, EV/Sales, EV/EBITDA, P/B, EV/FCF
• Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis, including the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) and Terminal Value

The course includes approximately 5 hours of video lectures as well as additional materials. No finance experience is required, however, a very basic understanding of Excel would be helpful.

(Also refer to our overview of corporate finance online courses.)