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Corporate Finance: Value and Capital, a free business course on Tomo

Corporate Finance: Value and Capital

Move beyond basic accounting to understand how companies create value, manage risk, and decide where to put their next dollar. Learn to think like a CFO by balancing growth against the cost of capital.

Like Duolingo, but for Corporate Finance: Value and Capital. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

24 levels across 4 sections, about 48 minutes end to end, roughly 10 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Making Investment Decisions, Funding the Business, Managing Value and Liquidity, and Strategic Corporate Actions. It assumes you already know the basics.

24 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

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24
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What you'll learn

Key ideas in Corporate Finance: Value and Capital

  • NPV as the definitive indicator of shareholder wealth creation
  • The failure of IRR in non-conventional cash flow scenarios
  • The role of Payback Period as a risk and liquidity tool
  • Identifying opportunity costs in capital budgeting
  • Sunk costs are past outlays that cannot be recovered and should not influence the incremental NPV of a decision.
  • Only the incremental costs and benefits from this point forward determine if a project should continue.
  • The irrelevance of sunk costs in forward-looking decisions
  • Capital rationing forces firms to choose project combinations over single high-NPV wins.
  • Sensitivity analysis changes one variable at a time to see its effect on project NPV.
  • The goal is to maximize the sum of NPVs across all projects within the budget constraint.
  • Variables with the widest range of NPV outcomes represent the highest project risk.
  • Maximizing total value when investment capital is limited
  • Profitability Index helps rank projects by value created per dollar of limited capital.
  • Management uses these results to prioritize which assumptions need the most validation.
  • Identifying the most critical variables through sensitivity analysis
  • Scenario analysis changes multiple correlated variables to reflect a specific future state.
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Corporate Finance: Value and Capital the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

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Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

The Gold Standard of Value

When a CFO calculates a project's Net Present Value, what is the resulting dollar figure actually measuring?

Get it right to open this lesson and 23 more in the app.

Course map

How to learn Corporate Finance: Value and Capital, step by step

Go in order. 24 short levels across 4 sections, about 48 minutes in all, five minutes a day.

  1. 1

    Making Investment Decisions

    • The Logic of Capital Budgeting
    • Real-World Project Selection
  2. 2

    Funding the Business

    • The Cost of Capital
    • Designing the Capital Structure
  3. 3

    Managing Value and Liquidity

    • Dividends and Share Buybacks
    • Working Capital Strategy
  4. 4

    Strategic Corporate Actions

    • Mergers and Acquisitions
    • Governance and Agency

4 sections · 8 units · 24 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

Questions

Questions about Corporate Finance: Value and Capital

  1. How do I learn Corporate Finance: Value and Capital?

    Go in order: start with Making Investment Decisions, then Funding the Business, then Managing Value and Liquidity, then Strategic Corporate Actions. On Tomo that's 24 short levels, about 48 minutes in all, played five minutes a day. Start free and play the first level in under a minute.

  2. Is there a Duolingo-style app for Corporate Finance: Value and Capital?

    Yes. Tomo works like Duolingo: short daily lessons, streaks and quick quizzes. Corporate Finance: Value and Capital is one of its free courses, and you can type any other topic to get a course of your own.

  3. Is the Corporate Finance: Value and Capital course free?

    Yes. Corporate Finance: Value and Capital is playable on Tomo's free plan, which doesn't expire. No credit card, no waitlist. Download the app and start your first lesson.

  4. How long does it take to learn Corporate Finance: Value and Capital?

    24 levels across 4 sections, about 48 minutes of play in total. It's built for five minutes a day, so you finish it a little at a time instead of all at once.

  5. Do I need any background to start Corporate Finance: Value and Capital?

    No. It's pitched at an intermediate level, so it starts where you are and builds up. If you can tap a phone, you can start.

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