# Intro to Corporate Finance Course

Canonical URL: <https://www.graduateschool.edu/courses/corporate-finance-training>

## Overview

Learn the essentials of corporate finance, from capital allocation to corporate valuation, initial public offerings, financial instruments, and mergers and acquisitions. Throughout the class, we will use real-world case studies of recent deals and examine live pricing of various securities.

## 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

## Schedule
- Jun 29, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — Live Online

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $399