Finance for Decision-Making

This comprehensive course is specifically designed to provide you with a deep understanding of the financial decision-making process in modern corporations. With a focus on increasing shareholder and firm value, the course covers crucial decisions that contribute to creating and maximizing value. You will learn how to analyze, evaluate, and execute capital budgeting and working capital management as investment decisions, capital structuring and restructuring as financing decisions, and dividend distribution decisions. The content of the course is meticulously planned to equip you with the skills necessary to make sound financial decisions that will benefit your organization in the long run. Upon completion of the course, you will be able to confidently evaluate and execute various financial decisions that are vital to the success of your organization. After completing this course, a learner will be able to: 1. Gain a clear understanding of how the concept of the time value of money applies to specific financial decisions. 2. Analyze how different types of risk impact potential returns and investment strategies in financial decision-making. 3. Construct comprehensive capital budgeting scenarios and assess projects based on their cash flows. 4. Defend the liquidity-profitability trade-off in working capital management, considering the level and financing of current assets. 5. Investigate the relationship between a firm's capital structure choices and value, focusing on the interplay of debt, equity, and risk to assess the trade-offs. 6. Formulate optimal dividend policy for firms basis their life-cycle stage and growth opportunities.