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Corp Finance #12 Capital Budgeting & Investment Risk Tools (Udemy.com)

Learn how to use risk management tools when making capital budgeting and investment decisions

4.6

121 reviews

Created by: Robert (Bob) Steele

Last updated September 2026

What you will learn

List and define risk management tools that relate to capital budgeting and investment decisions
Explain the concept of population mean and expected value
Discuss the term population variance and how it can apply to capital budgeting decisions
Describe standard deviation and how it can apply to capital budgeting decisions
Explain the concept of coefficient of variation and how it can be used to measure risk in the capital budgeting decision making process
Define simulation models and how they can be useful in capital budgeting decisions
Discuss how capital budgeting decisions should take into consideration the overall investment portfolio

How it compares

Against the other 376 rated Udemy courses in Finance & Accounting on CourseDuck:

Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 68% of them
Reviews121#322 of 377 by number of reviews
Length5.4 hourslonger than 52% of them
Last updatedSeptember 2026more recently than 95% of them

Course Description

This course will cover the use of risk assessment tools as they relate to capital budgeting and investment decisions and how to use them.

We will include many example problems, both in the format of presentations and Excel worksheet problems. The Excel worksheet presentations will include a downloadable Excel workbook with at least two tabs, one with the answer, the second with a preformatted worksheet that can be completed in a step-by-step process along with the instructional videos.

When making long term investment and capital budgeting decisions we need to consider the time value of money. The decision-making process will estimate future cash flows and then apply our time value of money concepts to those future cash flows.

This course will take a step back in the process, providing tools to best estimate the future cash flows. To make the best decision we will need to estimate what the future cash flows will be and the likelihood of those cash flows, giving us numbers we can apply present value concepts to while also taking into consideration risk.

To help measure risk, the course will use statistical tools including the population mean, population variance, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation.

We will provide a quick overview of these statistical concepts in general and then consider how we can apply them to measuring risk for investment and capital budgeting decisions.

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Time: 5.4h

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Instructor Details

Robert (Bob) Steele

4.6 Rating
121 Reviews

Through working with students from many different schools, Mr. Steele has learned best practices for helping people understand accounting fast. Learning new skills and finding the best way to share knowledge with people who can benefit from it is a passion of his.

Mr. Steele has experience working as a practicing Certified Public Accountant (CPA), an accounting and business instructor, and curriculum developer. He has enjoyed putting together quality tools to improve learning and has been teaching, making instructional resources, and building curriculum since 2009. He has been a practicing CPA since 2005. Mr. Steele is a practicing CPA, has a Certified Post-Secondary Instructor (CPI) credential, a Master of Science in taxation from Golden Gate University, a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics with an emphasis in accounting from The University of California Santa Barbara, and a Global Management Accounting Designation (CGMA) from The American Institute of CPA (AICPA).

Mr. Steele has also authored five books that can be found on Amazon or in audiobook format on Audible. He has developed bestselling courses in accounting topics including financial accounting and QuickBooks accounting software.