What you'll learn

Understand the history and purpose of financial and capital markets
Realise the importance of intellectual property protection and how it determines technological innovation
Learn market efficiency and risk
Irrespective of political ideology, understand how government can help or hinder an economy
Use payoff diagrams to estimate the potential profit of option strategies
Recognize company incentives to acquire or merge with other companies
Understand hostile takeovers, leveraged buyouts and defense tactics against hostile takeovers
Explain what happened during the 2008 U.S. financial housing collapse

Requirements

No advanced preparation or prerequisites are required for this course.

Description

From the best selling instructor comes a brand new course: History of Corporate Finance In a Nutshell: The Foundations of Modern Finance.

This course is a non-fiction narrative, taking you on a journey to where finance came from. It describes how financial theories were developed, how ideological and government experiments shaped economies, and the rise and fall of financial markets. It discusses influential thinkers who shaped society, crazy scams that worked (for a while), and demystifies financial concepts into simple ideas everyone can understand.

You'll learn what drives and creates markets, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and hostile takeovers, and the 2008 U.S. financial housing collapse. We'll walk through the rise and fall of financial markets, financial theory and the crazy true story of modern economics.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to talk fluently about key financial concepts, unpack financial stories in the news, and recognize financial ideas as they show up in everyday life.

Who this course is for:

Anyone interested in learning about the history of finance and why modern day economies developed the way they did
A curiosity to learn about the fascinating ways people made and lost a lot of money.
Anyone interested in Finance, Economics, or Financial Theory