LSBS’s Advanced Certificate in Corporate Finance course introduces basic principles of finance, tools and techniques for short term and long term decision making. Throughout the course, the students will be guided to developing and implementing financial strategies and policies to chive the business goals.
Learning objectives
At the end the course, students will be able
• Explain the role of the organisation’s financial managers to achieve organisational goals.
• Describe and evaluate the sources of corporate finance and explain the merits and demerits
of sources of corporate finance.
• Appraise the risk profile of firms including estimation of cost of capital, debt and equity.
• Understand how risk and the cost of capital impact on investment appraisal, and explain how
such factors affect the value of a capital project.
• Approximate the organisation’s cost of capital, and understand how this cost is impacted by
taxation, “leverage” and other factors.
• Assess the external and internal influences on a corporation’s capital structure, payout policy and
policy in respect of risk management (via insurance, derivatives, and other instruments).
• Explain how the corporation’s capital structure, payout policy and risk policy impact upon investment decisions.
• Develop skills Excel worksheet skill to solve financial mathematical problems.
Target Audience
Business managers, SME owners, executives, finance executives and managers of other departments such marketing, operations and production and whoever interested in the topics of managerial finance.
Learning Materials
This is 100% online course and incudes;
· Video lectures
· PDF files and Slides
· Problem solving exercises
· Real world case studies
· Open discuss forum among the participants
· Online tests
Duration, Workload and Average completion time
Students need to spend a total of 20 hours to complete. On average students complete within 3 weeks. Residential course is 5 days.
Pre-requisite
There are no prerequisites for this course. Students are expected to how good working knowledge of English as all the course materials will be in English.
Course accreditation
This is an executive training course. The course is accredited for CPD UK and internally accepted CPD standards, guidance and recommendation.
What does a participant get after completing the course
· Online learning materials. Unlimited access to course materials even after completing
the course for one month.
· Certificate after completing the course successfully – “Advanced Certificate in Corporate Finance”.
Course Starting Date
· Online course – anytime
· Residential – Please check the training schedule for time and location
Course Fee
· Online fee – £ 300
· Residential – £ 500
Syllabus
· Firm, goal and governance of the firm and finance
· The financial market environment
· Time Value of Money
· Valuations of securities
· Risk and return
· Capital Marketing Techniques
· Leverage and Capital structures
· Working capital