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.
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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.
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A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
When a CFO calculates a project's Net Present Value, what is the resulting dollar figure actually measuring?
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Where Corporate Finance: Value and Capital takes you
- 1
Making Investment Decisions
- The Logic of Capital Budgeting
- Real-World Project Selection
- 2
Funding the Business
- The Cost of Capital
- Designing the Capital Structure
- 3
Managing Value and Liquidity
- Dividends and Share Buybacks
- Working Capital Strategy
- 4
Strategic Corporate Actions
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Governance and Agency
4 sections · 8 units · 24 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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