# Intro to Corporate Finance (Self-Paced) Canonical URL: ## Overview Learn the essentials of corporate finance at your own pace, including capital allocation, corporate valuation, initial public offerings, financial instruments, and mergers and acquisitions. The course uses real-world case studies of recent deals and live pricing examples to connect key finance concepts to practical industry scenarios. This self-paced course is ideal for those currently working in corporate finance or investment banking, as well as those preparing to enter the field or interview for finance roles. ## What you'll learn - Corporate finance fundamentals, including NPV and IRR - Roles of corporate finance professionals and investment bankers - Financial instruments: stocks, bonds, and options - Initial Public Offerings - Bonds, yields, and credit ratings - Dividends versus share buybacks - Mergers and acquisitions - How leverage increases risk and returns, and corporate valuation ## Curriculum #### Goals of Corporate Finance - Raising capital (sources of capital) - Allocating capital (uses of capital) - Setting dividend policy - Optimizing the capital structure - Staying private versus going public - Evaluating investments - What do investment bankers do? #### Corporate Finance Fundamentals - Future value & present value - Net present value (NPV) - Internal rate of return (IRR) - Evaluating investments with IRR & NPV - Cost of capital #### Stocks & Equity Issuances - Stock fundamentals - Initial public offerings - IPO process - Why go public? #### Debt Issuance - Bonds and loans - Bond prices, yields, and spreads - The yield curve - Credit ratings - Cost of debt versus cost of equity - How leverage increases risk and returns - Causes of the Financial Crisis #### Financial Investments - Capital investments - Mergers & acquisitions - Leveraged buyouts #### Intro to Corporate Valuation - Purposes of valuation - Discounted cash flow modeling - Capital asset pricing model - Weighted averaged cost of capital - Terminal valuation ## Instructors ### Mourad Kattan — Program Director & Instructor Mourad Kattan is an instructor and Program Director of Business, Finance, & Excel at Noble Desktop, teaching classes and designing courses in Excel, finance, accounting, and financial modeling. Before Noble Desktop, Mourad worked as a financial analyst at Credit Suisse and H/2 Capital Partners. In those positions, he used advanced analytical and financial skills to evaluate a variety of investments. Mourad graduated from the University of Pennsylvania summa cum laude and is part of the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. Learn more about [Mourad Kattan's](/mourad-kattan) background and expertise. ### Richard Trybulski — Instructor Richard is the lead instructor for several finance courses, including Financial Accounting & Financial Statement Analysis, Stock Market Investing, and Financial Modeling, at Noble Desktop. Richard trained new Investment Bank and Private Equity hires, including the Bank of America and Houlihan Lokey, in Modeling Mergers & Acquisitions, Trading Comps, LBOs, DCF, and 3 Statement Financial modeling. He also taught graduate university courses in Accounting, Financial Derivatives (Futures, Options, and Swaps), Fixed Income Analytics, and Corporate Finance. He currently teaches undergraduate courses in Financial Management and Data Analytics at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. Richard supported the Foreign Exchange Desk and Equity Desk at JP Morgan, worked as an equity research analyst at Malley Associates in NYC, developed Trade Capture Systems for Foreign Exchange and Bond Trading, and worked as a consultant, modeling/valuing real estate development (including corporate lease agreement analysis), and financial planning. Richard holds an MBA in Finance, was awarded the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) charter, the CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investments Analysts) charter, and the CMA (Chartered Management Accountant) charter. ## Pricing **Tuition:** $399