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Online Professional Certificate in Corporate Finance

Corporate finance underlies all financial decisions a firm makes, forming the foundation for everything from credit analysis to merger and acquisition activity. Obtain the prestigious New York Institute of Finance Professional Certificate to help you meet your professional and personal goals.

The Professional Certificate Programs are comprehensive in scope and offer you a wide variety of courses to choose from. In addition, you will receive CPE credits to insure you are keeping up to date with your professional requirements.

Complete the specified online courses over a period of 1 year. You must receive a passing grade of 70% on each course.

• Identify elements of corporate investment projects.
• Recognize elements and sources of corporate financing.
• Identify factors affecting the flow of corporate funds.
• Relate the Efficient Markets Hypothesis (EMH) to corporate financial decision making.
• Understand the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on corporate finance decisions.
• Define the present value of money.
• Recognize the formulas involved in solving for different examples of present value.
• Recognize the formulas involved in solving for different examples of future value.
• Use a financial calculator to practice solving present and future value problems.
• Evaluate investments by calculating interest rates, annual bond yields, and stock prices.
• Discuss the factors that affect interest rates and borrowing costs for financing projects.
• Recognize factors influencing a financing decision and characteristics influencing the associated debt/equity mix.
• Recognize the significance of the debt-to-equity ratio to the financing decision and why firms may choose debt.
• Recognize the effects of leverage and its relationship to cost of equity (how financing decisions affect the value of a firm).
• Calculate the cost of equity under various leverage ratios.
• Identify the rationale and scenarios for doing business valuations.
• List the roles played by the public markets in business valuation.
• Recognize the different methods used to value businesses.
• Describe the difference between cash flow and free cash flow.
• Recognize the value drivers of free cash flows.
• Define leverage in terms of its influence on the WACC.
• Recognize the elements of the CAPM formula.
• Describe the role of beta in determining the cost of equity.
• Calculate the expected cost of equity and WACC.
• and much more!