Corporate Finance Fundamentals covers capital investment, capital financing, and the return of capital. Learn how companies evaluate potential projects for those that increase shareholder value. Understand how to optimize a firm’s capital structure. Select various methods for returning capital to shareholders.
Learning Objectives
• Understand how to select projects that will create value for shareholders
• Learn how to use capital financing to optimize the capital structure of a company
• Select a method of returning capital to company shareholders
Major Topics
• Understand what capital investment is and why it increases a company
• s assets
• Learn common metrics used by companies to evaluate various investments
• Learn the business life cycle and how it impacts the funding life cycle
• Understand the types & sources of equity & debt available to companies
• Learn how to minimize a company
• s weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
• Understand the advantages & disadvantages of the different ways a company can return capital
