Finance For Everyone: Value

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Finance For Everyone: Value

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About this course: In Value, you will explore the most powerful generator of value in the world – ideas. Ideas are the engines of productivity, both in the private and public sectors. You will learn about the universal frameworks that determine how ideas and money interact, leading to the allocation of financial resources. We will identify components of cash flow for any project, business or venture as the most essential ingredients of value. We also assess the investment techniques used to give life to some ideas while killing others. This course will help you understand pricing, diversification, uncertainty and even behavioural approaches to dealing with risk. Using Nobel Prize-winnin…

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About this course: In Value, you will explore the most powerful generator of value in the world – ideas. Ideas are the engines of productivity, both in the private and public sectors. You will learn about the universal frameworks that determine how ideas and money interact, leading to the allocation of financial resources. We will identify components of cash flow for any project, business or venture as the most essential ingredients of value. We also assess the investment techniques used to give life to some ideas while killing others. This course will help you understand pricing, diversification, uncertainty and even behavioural approaches to dealing with risk. Using Nobel Prize-winning insights, you will learn how to measure the size of the risk premium and build valuation models. We’ll even connect evidence-based science with common-sense analysis to give you better tools for understanding why values are what they are, and for positioning yourself more effectively to participate in financial markets. You will be immersed in case based learning to integrate some of the powerful frameworks introduced in Value.

Who is this class for: Whether you work in the financial industry or are a novice, this course is aimed at anyone wanting to develop financial literacy with respect to assessing the value of ideas and investments, practice applying valuation techniques to a case, compare scenarios of market perfection and market correction, and prepare for financially-turbulent times.

Created by:  McMaster University
  • Taught by:  Arshad Ahmad, Professor

    DeGroote School of Business
Basic Info Course 3 of 5 in the Finance for Everyone Specialization Commitment 4 weeks of study, 1-2 hours/week Language English How To Pass Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. User Ratings 4.6 stars Average User Rating 4.6See what learners said 课程作业

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Syllabus


WEEK 1


Investment Techniques



Welcome! This first week will engage you in investigating how value is created, distributed and destroyed, and will enable you to utilize different techniques for assessing the value of existing or potential investments. You will make connections between Value and concepts in the prior two courses of this Specialization, share (potentially valuable!) good ideas with your fellow learners, and communicate your new insights with the world.


3 videos, 6 readings, 1 practice quiz expand


  1. 阅读: F4E Specialization Snapshot
  2. Video: Trailer: World Events, Turbulence, and Your Money
  3. Video: Introduction to Finance for Everyone: Value
  4. 阅读: Course Outline
  5. 练习测验: F4E: Value Introductory Survey
  6. 阅读: Where are our learners from?
  7. 阅读: Keeping a Learning Portfolio
  8. 讨论提示: Participant Introductions & F4E Insights
  9. Video: Investment Techniques
  10. 阅读: LearnSmart: What it is and how to use it
  11. 阅读: LearnSmart: Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria (optional)
  12. 讨论提示: What's the Big Idea?

Graded: Investment Techniques
Graded: Making a Difference 1

WEEK 2


Capital Investment Decisions



This week, we investigate cash flows! By week’s end, you will be able to explain its wide-ranging importance, employ critical assumptions to make decisions about potential investments, and utilize components used to analyze an existing or proposed idea. Furthermore, you will apply these skills to the first case of this Specialization and engage with your peers in discussion to collaboratively work through this scenario!


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  1. 阅读: LearnSmart Chapter 10: Making Capital Investment Decisions (Strongly Recommend)
  2. Video: Cash Flow Assumptions
  3. 阅读: Cash Flow Components Chart - Before and After
  4. Video: Cash Flow Components
  5. 讨论提示: Failed Ideas
  6. Video: Introduction to the Mini-Case
  7. 阅读: Mini-Case Challenge
  8. 讨论提示: Mini-Case Challenge Discussion Thread

Graded: Cash Flow Assumptions
Graded: Cash Flow Components
Graded: Making a Difference 2

WEEK 3


Market Efficiency & Risk



In week 3, you will begin to explore the big picture themes of market perfection and market correction. Within the context of these broad themes, you will contrast financial theory with financial practice, explain price convergence and divergence, and discern between the roles of risk and uncertainty in valuation. You will also take up the solution to the mini-case presented in week 2!


2 videos, 1 reading expand


  1. Video: Perfection & Correction Part 1
  2. 阅读: LearnSmart Chapter 12: Lessons from Capital Market History
  3. 讨论提示: What is Risk?
  4. Video: Mini-Case Solution

Graded: Making a Difference 3

WEEK 4


Market Inefficiency



In this final week of F4E: Value, you will continue exploring market perfection and correction. You will interpret financial data, determine your opinion on the possibility of an upcoming market correction, and identify strategies you can use to protect yourself from turbulence. You will also reexamine your big idea from week 1, share your biggest takeaways from the course, and look ahead to F4E: Debt.


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  1. Video: Perfection & Correction Part 2
  2. 讨论提示: Revisiting the Big Idea
  3. Video: Course 3 Epilogue & Preview of Course 4
  4. 讨论提示: Beyond Value
  5. 练习测验: End of Course Feedback

Graded: Perfection & Correction Parts 1 & 2
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