
Master Program: Corporate Finance
Learning purpose
Finance professionals face increasingly complex tasks in today's fast-paced business environment. To succeed they have to understand a wide range of corporate finance tools and learn how to apply them effectively. Participants will be confronted with a series of real business case studies drawn from various industries and countries which feature an array of financial decisions. Corporate Finance is a three-day intensive executive program designed to help executives guide the corporate strategic trajectory with a balanced view of business. This program offers tools and techniques to implement strategy, achieve breakthrough performance, enhance customer relationships, manage risk, and sustain competitive advantage. Attendants will learn to feel comfortable communicating about financial matters and contribute to strategic decisions through a deeper understanding of finance, applying these ideas in an international context.
Target audience
Corporate Finance is ideal for anyone seeking a solid understanding of the key concepts behind modern financial decision-making. Corporate Finance is appropriate but not limited to:
Programme
This program focuses on those aspects of the financial activity that professionals are confronting everyday equipping them wiith the modern valuation required to correctly appraise financial decisions and evaluate companies. Achieving coherency between the goals, the strategy, the investments and financing of a company is the predominating idea of the program, assessing a business' investment and financial policy in an integrated framework.
By means of participation techniques and case studies, the participants will be able to analyze and find answers to relevant issues that emerge in the financial field of their companies.
Participants will develop a sound understanding of how to:
- Identify the financial welfare, profit and loss, and cash-flow forecasts of a company.
- Create value effectively.
- Analyze project investment and cash flow valuations.
- Learn about the strategic use of Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
- Build firm valuations using financial tools.
- Apply financial engineering to mergers and acquisitions.
- Analyze complex operations such as leveraged and management buy-outs.
- Identify the defensive and preventive measures of takeover bids.
- Create frontiers in valuations.
- Adapt a company's capital structure to specific circumstances and corporate strategies.
- Adjust cost of capital and expected cash flows to value cross-border investments.

