Core Finance

The foundations: time value, statements, ratios & cash flow.

Every discipline in corporate finance stands on four foundations: the time value of money, the reading of financial statements, the language of ratios, and the tracing of cash. Master these and advanced topics — valuation, capital budgeting, cost of capital — become applications rather than obstacles.

This track takes you from the single most important idea in finance (a dollar today beats a dollar tomorrow) through the three statements that describe a company, the ratios that compress them into signals, and the cash flow analysis that reveals what accounting profit hides.