Finance for Executives

The course focusses on the practices and processes that businesses use to manage their financial resources, including the inflow and outflow of cash, forecasting future cash needs, and optimizing the use of cash to achieve the organization’s financial goals. Effective cash management is important for businesses of all sizes because it helps ensure that they have the financial resources they need to meet their short-term and long-term obligations and to take advantage of opportunities as they arise.

The course covers:

• Valuation: Time value of money, net present value, and internal rate of return (IRR)
• Financial decision-making: Measuring risk, return, and the cost of capital
• Corporate finance: Raising capital effectively
• Exit strategies: Initial public offerings (IPOs) and mergers and acquisitions (M&As)
• Explore critical decisions companies make and whether value is gained through decisions.
• Corporate governance
• Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors