Finance
What is Finance?
Finance is the study of money and how it is used in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. It is a field that is concerned with the allocation of resources and the management of risks. Finance is divided into three main areas: corporate finance, investment, and financial markets.
Corporate finance deals with the financial decisions of businesses, including the planning and management of a company's money. Investment focuses on the methods and strategies used to grow a company's money. Financial markets are the places where money is traded, such as the stock market and the bond market.
Finance is a critical component of any organization, and those who want to work in finance must have strong quantitative and analytical skills. In addition, finance professionals need to be able to communicate clearly and effectively.
PhD programs in finance typically take 4-5 years to complete and include coursework in mathematics, economics, and statistics. Students in finance programs can expect to take classes such as corporate finance, asset pricing, financial econometrics, and investment banking.
Finance Resources
Finance for Operations Managers
Learn Finance for Operations Managers through practical video tutorials from award-winning presenter Ray Sheen with this personalized online course.
Keeping up with Change: Issues for the Finance Professional
This MOOC identifies and explores a number of challenges to the finance professional arising from the ever changing business environment. Increasingly, financial decisions must take account of strategic consequences. The first module, Exploring Strat...
Financial Engineering and Risk Management Part I
Financial Engineering is a multidisciplinary field drawing from finance and economics, mathematics, statistics, engineering and computational methods. The emphasis of FE & RM Part I will be on the use of simple stochastic models to price derivati...
Finance For Everyone: Value
In Value, you will explore the most powerful generator of value in the world – ideas. Ideas are the engines of productivity, both in the private and public sectors. You will learn about the universal frameworks that determine how ideas and money inte...
Business Math
Business Math is a full-unit course with many practical applications to daily life in both personal and business settings. The first half of the course, in which students do 3 examinations, deepens the student’s understanding of concepts such as usin...
企业金融概论（中文版）
学完本课程后，您将可以分析企业所做金融决策的主要类型。然后，您可以运用所学技能处理现实商务挑战，这也是沃顿商学院商务基础专项课程的组成部分。主要概念包括：净现值技术、资本预算原则、资产估值、金融市场运作和效率、公司财务决策以及衍生产品。...
Finance for Everyone: Decisions
Finance for Everyone: Decisions will introduce you to the workings of the free markets and the foundations of finance. You will learn how free markets and their “creative destruction” provide the architecture for the global economy and how those same...
Money, banking and central banks
We all use money and most of us use banks. Despite this, the actual working of the banking system is a bit of a mystery to most (especially fractional reserve banking). This older tutorial (bad handwriting and resolution) starts from a basic society...
BUS202: Principles of Finance
In BUS103: Financial Accounting, we learned that firms are required to keep detailed financial records so that organized reports can be distributed to managers, shareholders, and government regulators. Principles of Finance will focus on what these m...
Grades 3-5 Economics: Savings and Profit
3-5 Core Curriculum - Economics: Savings and Profit In this fun and interactive unit study, designed to meet and exceed state and national standards, your children will explore personal finance and entrepreneurship. With over 22 activities and...
Finance and capital markets
Interest is the basis of modern capital markets. Depending on whether you are lending or borrowing, it can be viewed as a return on an asset (lending) or the cost of capital (borrowing). This tutorial gives an introduction to this fundamental concept...
Finance: Building a Robust Business
Finance: Building a Robust Business is course 2 of 5 in the Foundations of Management Specialization. Good management is equal parts knowing and doing. No matter what industry you work in or where you are in your career, a basic understanding of dec...