KAPLAN & GMAC FINANCE FUNDAMENTALS COURSE
Start Strong In Business School With GMAC Finance Fundamentals
Almost ready to start business school? With Finance Fundamentals, you’ll level up your finance knowledge before entering the classroom so that you can hit the ground running in your MBA or business master’s program.
Master the Basics of Business School Finance
We’ll cover all of the finance topics you need for business school, including:
- Time value of money
- Annuities and perpetuities
- Continuous compounding
- Financial statements
- Financial ratios
- Stock price and market value
- Stock, dividends, and splits
- Convertible bonds and other hybrids
- Discounted cash flow analysis
- Interest rates and risk
Classes That Fit In Your Pocket
Built on the Canvas learning platform, each GMAC Finance Fundamentals lesson is fully mobile-responsive and can be taken anytime, anywhere. Our business professors are in your pocket and available to teach you key finance topics—on your schedule.
We'll Keep You On Track
Assignments help you practically apply your new skills and measure your progress by starting and ending each topic with a pre-test and post-test. Knowledge checks throughout the course test your understanding of the content as you go, and a final exam reviews everything you’ve learned.
What's Included
- Hours of self-paced finance fundamentals lessons
- Access on mobile, desktop, and tablet
- Expert lectures from real business school professors
- Quizzes and assessments throughout
- Lessons based on real-world business scenarios
- Ability to drill down and focus on the content you need
- 24/7 on demand access
Bundle Exclusive
STATISTICS, ACCOUNTING & FINANCE
Get all three courses for just $199 (a $297 value!) when you purchase them in a bundle—and be even better prepared to start business school.
What We'll Cover
Finance Fundamentals: Course Overview
From financial analysis of business performance to how businesses raise capital, manage debt, and build equity, this course will provide an overview of managerial Finance in the corporate world. The course is comprised of self-paced lessons that were designed and delivered by experts. The combination of high-quality assessments, written material, rich media, and application-based practice builds students' intuition and comfort with the world of corporate finance.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Utilize the terminology and math used in time value of money calculations
- Perform standard TVM calculations in a spreadsheet.
- Identify how business performance is measured by managers.
- List the basic types of debt and equity.
- Perform basic calculations to show those values.
- Utilize the terminology and math used to value business and cash flows.
- Perform a basic discounted cash flow valuation in a spreadsheet.
- Identify the relationship between interest rates and risk.
Topic #1: The Time Value of Money
The primary goal of studying Finance is to plan for and predict the future from a monetary perspective. Both individuals and businesses need to plan for their financial future, and to do that they need to understand how money works in the short and long term. Our topic on the time value of money introduces the basics so students will learn how businesses make money work for them.
Topic #2: Measuring Business Performance
Once you understand how money works the next step is to assess how well it's working for a company or individual. Borrowing some knowledge from the world of Accounting, we can analyze financial statements and ratios to assess financial performance.
Topic #3: Debt and Equity
Topic 3 of our Finance course focuses on debt and equity, or in other words the lack of value and presence of value. Effectively managing debt and equity are vital to financial wellbeing, and this topic will introduce students to the tools that help with this management such as loans, bonds, stock, and more.
Topic #4: How Managers Value Businesses
Our discussion of Finance concludes with valuation and how to determine what a business' actual value is. From discounted cash flows to interest rates and risk, this final topic will prepare students to analyze and value the financial position of a business.