Corporate Finance MBA: Free Course

About this course

Corporate finance brings investment, funding and cash distribution decisions into one connected framework. This free MBA classroom course with Aswath Damodaran develops that framework through extended lectures and business examples. It is a substantial learning path for understanding the reasoning behind financial decisions, rather than memorizing a set of disconnected formulas.

Course at a glance

What you’ll learn

• Explain how business objectives influence financial decision-making.
• Connect risk inputs with the cost of equity, debt and capital.
• Assess project cash flows using time-weighted investment measures.
• Compare financing and dividend choices through their effects on value.

Skills you’ll gain

• Corporate financial analysis
• Capital budgeting
• Cost of capital
• Financing decisions

Course Overview

The lectures begin with business objectives, corporate governance and conflicts between stakeholders. They move into risk measurement and required returns, then examine investment analysis, financing choices and dividend policy. Valuation provides a final connection between those decisions and business value. The full classroom format gives room for explanations, case discussion and follow-up questions that are less prominent in the short online version.

How the course develops

• Objectives and risk: follow the discussion from corporate governance to risk premiums, betas and required returns.
• Investment analysis: distinguish accounting earnings from cash flows and examine the logic of NPV and IRR.
• Funding and value: connect debt design, financing mix and dividend policy with the valuation of the business.

The classroom retains every entry from the selected source playlist, including introductory or review videos when present. Follow the lesson sequence, or use the lesson search to return to a specific explanation. The source lesson titles are preserved so that you can match your place with the instructor’s materials.

Who is this for?

Finance students, analysts and managers seeking a full classroom treatment of corporate finance. MBA describes the source teaching track; free viewing does not enroll you in an MBA program.

Before you start

Comfort with algebra, percentages and basic accounting is recommended. Spreadsheet familiarity helps with independent application of the examples.

Put the lessons into practice

Select one business and organize a short analysis around three questions: where should it invest, how should it finance those investments, and when should it return cash? Record your assumptions and the financial evidence behind each answer. Revisit the analysis after the valuation sessions to see whether the three decisions tell a consistent story.

This optional activity is provided by WikiFree for independent study. It is not a graded assignment from the instructor. Keep your working notes and separate evidence from assumptions so that you can review your reasoning as you progress.

Certificate / Assessment

The public YouTube videos are free to watch. Viewing them through WikiFree does not include a certificate, academic credit, an NYU degree, instructor feedback or admission to a university program. Separate enrolled or certificate programs can have different requirements and fees.

Mark complete records your study progress; it does not assess your work or award a qualification. Examples and figures belong to the source recordings. Use the lessons to learn the analytical methods and verify current inputs before applying them to a real decision.

Frequently asked questions

Provider: Aswath Damodaran. Videos play from the Aswath Damodaran channel on YouTube.