# Intro to Corporate Finance

Canonical URL: <https://www.creativelive.com/classes/corporate-finance-training>

## Overview

Learn the fundamentals of corporate finance, from capital allocation and corporate valuation to initial public offerings, financial instruments, and mergers and acquisitions. Throughout the course, you will examine real-world case studies based on recent deals and review live pricing for a range of securities.

This course is an excellent fit for professionals working in corporate finance or investment banking, as well as those preparing to enter the field. It also serves as strong preparation for interviews across a wide range of finance roles.

## What you'll learn

- Corporate finance fundamentals, including NPV and IRR
- Roles of corporate finance professionals and investment bankers
- Financial instruments: stocks, bonds, and options
- Initial Public Offerings
- Bonds, yields, and credit ratings
- Dividends versus share buybacks
- Mergers and acquisitions
- How leverage increases risk and returns, and corporate valuation

## Curriculum

#### Goals of Corporate Finance

- Raising capital (sources of capital)
- Allocating capital (uses of capital)
- Setting dividend policy
- Optimizing the capital structure
- Staying private versus going public
- Evaluating investments
- What do investment bankers do?

#### Corporate Finance Fundamentals

- Future value & present value
- Net present value (NPV)
- Internal rate of return (IRR)
- Evaluating investments with IRR & NPV
- Cost of capital

#### Stocks & Equity Issuances

- Stock fundamentals
- Initial public offerings
- IPO process
- Why go public?

#### Debt Issuance

- Bonds and loans
- Bond prices, yields, and spreads
- The yield curve
- Credit ratings
- Cost of debt versus cost of equity
- How leverage increases risk and returns
- Causes of the Financial Crisis

#### Financial Investments

- Capital investments
- Mergers & acquisitions
- Leveraged buyouts

#### Intro to Corporate Valuation

- Purposes of valuation
- Discounted cash flow modeling
- Capital asset pricing model
- Weighted averaged cost of capital
- Terminal valuation

## Schedule
- Jun 29, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — Live Online

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $399