How do companies make financial decisions from giving dividends to making R&D investments? Corporate finance is (or should be) at the core of business education everywhere(and I am not being biased). It is the true big picture class, drawing on accounting, statistics, economics and every management discipline to develop the first principles that should govern decision making within any business, small and large, public and private and across all markets. I should not be playing favorites, but I love teaching this class and I hope it shows.

Corporate Finance by Aswath Damodaran

Lessons

Corporate Finance Lecture 1 - Introduction

Corporate Finance Lecture 2: Shareholders and Management

Corporate Finance Lecture 3: Corporate Governance

Corporate Finance Lecture 4: Conflicts of Interest

Corporate Finance Lecture 5: Risk and Return

Corporate Finance Lecture 6: Estimating Inputs for CAPM

Corporate Finance Lecture 7: Estimating Risk

Corporate Finance Lecture 8: All About Estimating Beta

Corporate Finance Lecture 9: Beta and Cost of Equity

Corporate Finance Lecture 10: Estimating Cost of Debt

Corporate Finance Lecture 11: Calculating Cost of Capital

Corporate Finance Lecture 12: Measuring Returns

Corporate Finance Lecture 13: NPV, IRR, and ROE

Corporate Finance Lecture 14: Equity Analysis, Acquisitions and Projects

Corporate Finance Lecture 15: Project Side Costs and Benefits

Corporate Finance Lecture 16: Project Choices and the Financing Decision

Corporate Finance Lecture 17: Debt Tradeoff, Miller-Modigliani Theorem, Optimal Financing Mix

Corporate Finance Lecture 18: Cost of Capital as Optimizing Tool

Corporate Finance Lecture 19: Optimal Financing Mix

Corporate Finance Lecture 20: Designing the Perfect Debt

Corporate Finance Lecture 21: The Dividend Policy (Part 1)

Corporate Finance Lecture 22: The Dividend Policy (Part 2)

Corporate Finance Lecture 23: The Dividend Policy (Part 3)

Corporate Finance Lecture 24: Valuation and Estimating Inputs

Corporate Finance Lecture 25: Valuation (Continued)

Corporate Finance Lecture 26: Course Review

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