Essential Business MOOCs In September

Principles of Valuation: Time Value of Money

 

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School: University of Michigan

Platform: Coursera

Registration Link: Principles of Valuation: Time Value of Money

Start Date: September 15, 2015 (6 Weeks Long)

Workload: 5-10 Hours Per Week

Instructors: Gautam Kaul and Qin Lei

Credentials: Professor Kaul has won five Excellence in Teaching awards at Ross, along with earning the Victor L. Bernard Leadership in Teaching Award in 2009. He is widely published in financial journals and teaches a variety of introductory and advanced courses, including Corporate Finance, Investment and Financial Institutions, and Sustainable Enterprise. Lei, a Ph.D. holder from the University of Michigan, joined the University of Michigan staff in 2013 after earning the MBA Outstanding Teaching Award at Southern Methodist University in 2012. He currently teaching courses in applied investment management, options and futures, and capital markets. His most recent research has been published by the Journal of Financial Markets and the Journal of Industrial Economics.

Graded: Students will earn a signed certificate from the instructors for successfully completing the course.

Description: Technically, finance is an expression of various behaviors. Many times, behaviors are interpreted based on someone’s background and biases. In this introductory course, students will focus on personal financial decisions – the choices and tradeoffs they make (and why). In particular, it will cover the TVM (time value of money) framework: how today’s decisions impact tomorrow’s outcomes. After mastering TVM basics, the course will move to concepts in alternative decision criteria, such as net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR), before concluding with accounting principles like cash flows. The course will be taught through video lectures, with students evaluated on work problems assignments and a final exam.

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Additional Note: This course is the first part of an “Introduction to Finance: Valuation and Investing Specialization,” a four course series that includes a capstone project.