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About the Course

This course provides a brief introduction to the fundamentals of finance, emphasizing their application to a wide variety of real-world situations spanning personal finance, corporate decision-making, and financial intermediation. Key concepts and applications include: time value of money, risk-return tradeoff, cost of capital, interest rates, retirement savings, mortgage financing, auto leasing, capital budgeting, asset valuation, discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, net present value, internal rate of return, hurdle rate, payback period....

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ZZ

Sep 27, 2021

An excellent course overall. I really enjoyed the learning experience and look forward to more courses from Wharton. Special thanks to professor Michael Roberts for providing great value in 1 course.

LL

Oct 22, 2016

The professor is very patient, he spends a lot of time making sense of the equations and the calculation process, which helps me comprehend the concepts and their application really a lot. Thank you!

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By varun p

Sep 3, 2018

While the course was satisfactory as a whole, it felt like it lacked breadth compared to the other courses in the specialization. Was very light and could be completed easily. But the topics explored were done very well great job by Prof Roberts in making it so student friendly and understandable for everyone!

By Kim C

Jun 5, 2020

Very well taught by the professor. He was enthusiastic and told us many real-life examples. Although, I would like it if the course were a little more lucid to those entering the finance world with an empty slate. However, overall a wonderful course and would definitely recommend it. Thanks professor Roberts!

By Nanyi D

Jan 18, 2016

It is super helpful to know the general idea of the corporate finance by taking the course. While the course provides extending books to read for the subject, nothing is really in depth within the lectures. And I think it would be helpful for lots of people if the course provided explanation of quiz answers.

By Steven A

Apr 20, 2018

Lecturers give clear explanation in every topic. They also give examples on how to use the formulas. There are additional quizzes for practice as well. The graded quizzes assess the participant not only in theory, but also in application. Mentor replies the questions clearly in the discussion forum.

By Aleksei B

May 14, 2016

The course was really good: illustrative and clearly delivered explanations, comprehensible visualizations. Though, it looks like the old course being edited with some of the topics removed. I.e. some other topics might have been useful as well of introduction. Still, the present material is great.

By Anne S

Oct 19, 2018

This course was good for a basic understanding of terms and everyday calculations, but mastery is hard to achieve since the tests only have 4 questions, and I never really mastered the algebra that is needed to go along with this course. Failure of my high school teachers, not this course's fault.

By Hanghang L

Feb 21, 2016

I like the course since the basic concept is concise and clear.The review for every lesson highlights the essence of the class and the professor simplified the class by giving enough examples.I will enjoy the class better if the exams are more challenge and more related to the professor's lecture.

By Alexander V

Nov 17, 2022

Good course in combination with the accounting course also offered by Wharton. There was some overlap between topics but I actually enjoyed that aspect since it tied some elements together. Some of the videos need some light editing but the over content was straight-forward and to-the-point.

By Camille H

Oct 15, 2017

I've learned a lot and am now more aware of some technical aspects of finance. I was however expecting more general knowledge (more like a beginner's class) rather than tool to use on an everyday basis.

At the end it does become quite a bit hard to follow and agregate all the formulas together.

By Sri

Aug 5, 2016

Material was interesting and engaging. Sometimes the professor skips over material assuming the learner to understand where he is coming from and uses terms without defining them. Could be improved with more examples and more practice so it is not so abstract, especially in the last module.

By Din-Magomed I

Apr 15, 2021

I liked the instructor and the course overall. However, there are issues on the quizzes - some answer options listed in the quizzes are incorrect. Hence, you can't get the higher grade even if you know the right answer. Please fix those technical issues. Other than that, all is good.

By Iqra T

Nov 3, 2021

The course provided a comprehensive introduction to corporate finance and the instructor illustrated the concepts very well. However, I have issues with the quizzes. In the quizzes of almost every module, some mcqs did not have the correct answer as option, which affected my grade.

By Patrick R

Aug 6, 2017

Great, informative class that I felt as though I learned a lot of theoretical and practical applications. My only criticism is that the problem sets were short and did not test the concepts in much depth and when an answer was incorrect, did not receive any feedback regarding why

By Claude S

Nov 29, 2020

Overall solid introductory course to corp finance. Pity that multiple choice quizzes seem to have several instances where all answers are wrong, and then to top it off, the final specialization certificate has grammar error/typo. Expected a bit more from Wharton certification!

By Raymond E

Nov 30, 2020

This course was helpful in understanding business analysis processes, but the quiz quality (numerous questions had NO correct answer options, including two on the final quiz) should be addressed. These were reported by numerous students and really impacts the class quality.

By Victor C F

Sep 9, 2021

The explanations from the professor are really good and for those of use without a finance background, the lessons are simple to follow. I would only increase a bit the difficulty of the exercises to make them more challenging, but in the end, the concepts are proven.

By KUMAR V 1

May 21, 2020

The content of this course is very useful and you get to know many knowledgeable tools of finance in corporate worlds and investment banks. I personally feel if the explanation was more inclusive and easy, it would have eliminated confusions and time consumption.

By Lu L

Nov 13, 2018

Useful tool, though I think we need to extend the length of the course or combine this course with Financial Accounting. Financial accounting is a basis for corporate finance, however without the real application of financial accounting, that course is so boring.

By Mukhtar A

Mar 9, 2022

It's a great course and the professor is engaging. I wish that in the second last lecture he went over how to use spreadsheets a bit more in detail, or had a lecture dedicated to the tutorial. The annoying thing about the course are the errors in the quizzes.

By Priyank D

Jun 17, 2020

The last week was very exciting and I was expecting to see more complex problems in the quiz but unfortunately quiz isnt very challenging. The same is true for all the quiz. It would be great to have addition optional advance quiz like "honors optional"

By Ajit S

Apr 17, 2016

The course is named appropriately as it only gives an introduction and not a detailed view. But there is only one course about finance in this specialization, therefore it could be made more rigorous to cover-up for the lack of advanced followup course.

By Xintian S

Feb 5, 2018

It would be nice if the quiz has detailed solutions, since you wouldn't know how you did that wrong at the end. But the forum session is definitely helpful. Week 4 material is kind of jumped too much from previous ones. great course for beginner.

By Verónica G R

Feb 18, 2025

Nice online format. Concise, easy to understand. I would've liked to count with a guide where to look for the formulas and equations to solve the exercises. I looked for some out of the content in the course for better understanding and practicality.

By Antoine F

Mar 7, 2024

Great course that explains the key corporate finance concepts. Quizzes are very easy and the course would benefit from a quizz with a more in depth example like the one presented for the tablet compared to calculate quickly many very basic NPVs/IRRs.