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About the Course

In this course, you’ll learn the basic fundamentals of corporate finance. Based on the pre-term qualifying courses for Wharton MBA students, Professor Jessica Wachter has designed this course for learners who need a refresher in financial concepts, or for those who are learning about corporate finance for the first time. You’ll identify foundational concepts in corporate finance, such as NPV, Compound and Simple Interest, and Annuities versus Perpetuities. You’ll also learn how to apply the NPV framework to calculating fixed-income valuation and Equity, using hypothetical examples of corporate projects. By the end of this course, you’ll have honed your skills in calculating risk and returns to optimize investments, and be able to assess the right set of financial information to achieve better returns for your firm....

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It would be very helpful if the solutions were provided to missed quiz questions - there were a few questions I tried a couple times and could never figure out.

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The course seems well researched-- I just have a hard time grasping these formulas and terms at the same time. They all seem to blend together when you add financial terminology into the algebra.

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By Rishit T

Jun 19, 2022

Way too many calculations and the handwriting was sloppy

By Emelia B

Feb 13, 2022

Very hard to follow.

By Elliot L B

Mar 17, 2024

As a beginner I feel as though the concepts were not fully explained by the professor. It would also have been more beneficial if we went through examples of the questions together with the teacher in the videos. In addition, I feel as though the videos were short and rushed. I often found myself having to teach myself the keywords. It was interesting to learn about it, but I am not going to complete the rest of the specialization due to this first course. I believe that this course would be more suited to an intermediate level.

By Terika R

Oct 6, 2022

Compared to the other finance courses within Wharton, this one seemed to over complicate simple concepts and focused too much on theory rather than practical application. I don't think people a really interested in the derivations, just how to use the concepts.

By Renee L

Nov 2, 2023

Class speaker is dry, content is all written and difficult to follow, quizzes have many open ended answers which can cause incorrect responses if not entered exactly to two decimal places.

By Brian K

Feb 14, 2023

Basic concepts are decent but it needs to be 3-4x as long because all the interesting material is in the optional week 5 and constitutes nothing but "additional readings".

By Santiago “

Feb 3, 2024

Broken Courses, No responses in Forums. 2 Stars because there is some content that provides information. Can't advance through though.

By Omri G

Jul 29, 2022

for the unexperience like myself it required a lot more outside research and practice to learn the material.

By SNEHA S (

Jul 11, 2024

Handwriting is not understandable and the instructor doesn't properly explain the terms in detail.

By Jessica D

May 7, 2024

It is hard to understand and the instructor's hand writing is not clear.

By Matab M

Aug 3, 2022

How is this beginner ? I actually had knowledge of some concepts and formulas and this course only CONFUSED ME and muddled my knowledge. The notes are terrible and useless. Quiz questions are irrelevent to what is in the videos and the explanantions provide no insight o depth about the concepts. Handwriting is horrible to follow with and the slides are worse. Howe is one to study or review and prepare for thge quizzes that do not make sense and also why are they all written ???? Worst online courses I ever did along with the fact that I did a whole 4-years college degree online.

By Isabella

Aug 7, 2022

Not really for beginners, the lecturer assumes we already know many terms and the formulas are just thrown at the student. The exercises are way too difficult, the lectures are not enough to solve the exercices, I could not finish the course given there is no support or explanation for the exercises and the class notes are not helpful.

By Ed F

Feb 14, 2024

Awful commentary, constantly mis-speaking and not writing the same as the words she was saying. With so many formulas, it's important to be correct and exact. Will not be doing any more Pennsylvania courses going forward.

By Maryna R

Apr 25, 2023

I am extremely sorry, but I can't complete this course.

No way it is suitable for begginners. No clear explanation, just formulas. Impossible to proceed without preparation. I have to resign.

By Aman S

May 4, 2022

The course is very poorly designed. The questions and concepts taught in videos are very superficial and on the other hand, the questions asked in the weekly quizzes are extremely tough.

By Dominik S

Feb 1, 2024

Sorry , i saw the first two minutes of the presentation and immediately decided to leave the course again. The handwriting skills are just horrible.

By Jernej

May 18, 2022

Core concepts are not explained and motivated enough. Time is instead spent on algebraic manipulations of the form "x+y+x = 2x+y".

Also very dry.

By 20SBstudent B Y J F

Mar 17, 2024

Really bad experience, concepts are not clear and answers aren't given for quizzes when marked wrong (even though answer is correct)

By Deleted A

Nov 19, 2023

The instructor sucks, she's incredibly boring. She tells you something and moves on, not explaining anything.

By Om S

Sep 17, 2022

The instructor is not explaining the concepts correctly nor the numerical and their relations.

By Claudio R

Apr 25, 2022

Not liking the teacher at all. Poor handwriting, difficult to follow.

By Alex K

Jul 8, 2024

The teaching is unclear and there is very little support material.

By Rohan N

Jul 11, 2022

the graphis could be better to understand

By Ayman S M A

Feb 10, 2023

poor, no slides, not modern teaching

By Deleted A

Jan 13, 2023

the content not good for begginer