The easiest way to learn Finance is to review finance cases. Interesting cases put relevant concepts in perspective and the numerical examples allow you to follow through calculations. Below is a list of finance cases:
- Finance Training Case: AMD: Valuation and Projections: Case Guide
- Finance Training Case: Corporate Finance: LLC or C-Corp
- Finance Training Case: Credit Process: Baldwin Piano
- Finance Training Case: Electronic Arts: Corporate Finance
- Finance Training Case: Office Depot: Ratio Analysis
- Finance Case: Ratio Analysis: ODP and Staples
Before you jump to the Credit Analysis and Credit Process courses, you need to review ratio analysis training course.
Corporate Finance Training: Ratio Analysis – understanding the language
If you haven’t had a chance to look at the accounting and finance training material earlier please review the first courses in accounting and finance:
- Corporate Finance Training Courses: First Course in Corporate Finance – Training Guide
- Basic Accounting Training Courses: First course in accounting for small business – Training Guide
Ratio Analysis course
The Ratio Analysis course starts with the very basics of foundation and then quickly moves into the four key dimensions of ratio analysis: Liquidity, Leverage, Profitability, and Productivity.
Introduction
- Ratio Analysis Training: Understanding the language of ratio analysis – one
- Ratio Analysis Training: Understanding the language of ratio analysis – two
- Ratio Analysis Training: Understanding the language of ratio analysis – three
- Ratio Analysis Training: Liquidity, Leverage, Profitability, Productivity
Example Case
- Finance Case: Ratio Analysis Training: Office Depot: Overview
- Finance Case: Ratio Analysis Training: Office Depot: Financial Condition Review
- Finance Case: Ratio Analysis Training: Office Depot: Ratios game plan
- Finance Case: Ratio Analysis Training: Office Depot: Industry review and a first look at ratios
- Finance Case: Ratio Analysis Training: Office Depot: The second and deeper iteration
Accounting Crash Course
The basic accounting short course for small business was put together as a quick accounting survival guide for accounting neophytes. As small business owners, while most of us understand debit and credit and the concept of Journals and Ledgers, some of us missed the formal organization of an accounting course. The course starts with the very basics of accounting and builds up to the trial balance. The next part of this course will review the 3 financial statements including the balance sheet, the P&L and the statement of cash flows. For those of you new to the topics of finance and accounting a quick terminology refresher may be useful. You may want to see the first course in finance before you start on the accounting materials.
- Basic Accounting Course: Accounting training for small businesses
- Basic accounting Course: Accounting training for small businesses – Introducing Debit & Credit
- Basic accounting Course: Accounting training for small businesses – Preparing the T-account
- Accounting Course: Small business accounting training – Books of Original Entry – Journals and Ledgers
- Accounting Course: Small Business Accounting Training – Sales Journal and Sales Ledgers
- Accounting Course: Small Business Accounting Training – Sales Journal, Sales Ledger and Trade discounts
- Accounting Course: Small Business Accounting Training – Purchases Journal and Purchases Ledger
- Basic Accounting Course: Small Business Accounting Training- Integrating Sales, Purchases & Returns
- Basic Accounting Course: Accounting Training for small businesses- Cash Book and recording cash discounts
- Basic Accounting Course: Small Business Accounting Training: Cash Book Example
- Basic accounting Course: Small business accounting training – General Ledger example
- Accounting Course: Small Business accounting training – The Trial Balance and accounting control
- Accounting Course: Small business accounting training – Reviewing the Trial balance example
First Course in Corporate Finance
The first course in Corporate Finance introduces concepts of Financial Statements, Time Value of Money, Risk and Return, Opportunity Cost, Cost of Capital, Weighted Average Cost of Capital and Return measures. It includes a case study on Electronic Arts valuation.
- The first training course in Corporate Finance – Session Zero
- Corporate Finance Course: Financial Statements – Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss and Cash flows
- Corporate Finance Course: The Balance Sheet, Assets, Depreciation
- Corporate Finance Course: Balance Sheet: Liabilities & Working Capital
- Corporate Finance Course: Equity and the Income Statement
- Corporate Finance Course: Risk & Return
- Corporate Finance Course: The many faces of Return: ROE, ROIC and Payback
- Corporate Finance Course: Discount rate and time value of money
- Corporate Finance Course: Present Value in Action
- Corporate Finance Course: Calculating Internal Rate of Return or IRR
- Corporate Finance Course: Opportunity Cost and Cost of Capital
- Corporate Finance Course: Beta, Calculating WACC or Weighted Average Cost of Capital
- Corporate Finance Course: Case Study: Electronic Arts (EA)