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The Corporate Finance Course (Udemy.com)

Corporate Governance, Capital Budgeting, Cost of Capital, Leverage, Working Capital: Complete Corporate Finance Training

4.5
3,594 reviews

Created by: 365 Careers

Last updated December 2025

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The course is a 6.4 hour tour of five corporate finance areas: governance, capital budgeting, cost of capital, leverage and working capital. It comes from 365 Careers, a finance-focused Udemy provider, and is pitched at career starters and interview prep. Reviewers describe it as suited to MBA beginners and to CMA or CFA prep. It is a survey of concepts and formulas, not a deep technical program.

Students like how clearly the ideas are explained, and one points to the practical examples and exercises. One reviewer who had tried Coursera and other Udemy options called it the best for the basics. The complaints are specific, though. One student found it fairly theoretical and wanted more complex analyst-style cases. Another wanted more on why an equation matters, not just how to crunch it. A third asked for printable notes. A few low ratings are one-line comments that say nothing about the content.

With 3,574 reviews averaging 4.6 stars and a short runtime, it is a low-risk way to get the vocabulary and core calculations down. The course was last updated in 2025. Treat it as a foundation, not a finish line. Anyone who needs heavy case work should plan on a second course afterward, since that is where the reviews point to a practice gap.

Best forFinance beginners and MBA starters who want the five core corporate finance topics in about 6.4 hours.
Skip it ifYou want complex analyst-style case studies, which one reviewer found missing, or deeper explanations of why the formulas work.

Pros

  • Reviewers find the explanations of the concepts clear and easy to follow
  • Short at 6.4 hours, and one reviewer says they will come back to the materials
  • Practical examples and exercises help apply the theory, according to one reviewer
  • Puts the maths in a governance and ESG context, as one MBA student pointed out

Cons

  • Fairly theoretical, with few complex analyst-style cases, per one Spanish-language reviewer
  • Some explanations stop at how to calculate, not why the formula matters
  • No printable notes or resources to annotate, one four-star reviewer complained
Very good, It significantly enhanced my understanding of corporate finance as an MBA beginner.
Nzenze Emmanuel Epie Alobwede, a student

Labeled All Levels, but it really suits beginners and early MBA students, not working analysts.

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What you will learn

  • Prepare for a corporate finance careers
  • Impress interviewers by showing a strong an understanding of finance fundamentals and advanced topics concepts
  • Acquire an understanding of corporate governance, capital budgeting, cost of capital, measures of leverage, and working capital management

How it compares

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

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 47% of them
  • Reviews3,594#44 of 377 by number of reviews
  • Length6.4 hourslonger than 60% of them
  • Last updatedDecember 2025more recently than 58% of them

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Course Description

Do you want a career in the world of finance?

Are you interested in understanding what drives business value from a financial perspective?

You have come to the right place and at the right time!

This course is a fantastic training opportunity that could help you win job interviews, excel on the job, and get promoted.

We will study the five main areas of Corporate Finance:

  1. Corporate Governance - company stakeholders, stakeholder management, risks and benefits of corporate governance, the principal-agent relationship, environmental, social, and governance factors

  2. Capital Budgeting - principles of capital budgeting, mutually exclusive projects, project sequencing, and capital rationing, calculate and interpret net present value (NPV), IRR, payback period, discounted payback period, average accounting rate of return, profitability index (PI), compare the NPV and IRR methods, problems associated with IRR

  3. Cost of Capital - Calculate and interpret the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of a company, Describe how taxes affect the cost of capital from different capital sources, target capital structure in estimating WACC and how target capital structure weights may be determined, marginal cost of capital, cost of preferred stock, cost of equity using CAPM, cost of equity using bond-yield plus risk premium, beta and cost of capital for a project, considering country risk premiums, marginal cost of capital schedule, flotation costs

  4. Leverage - business risk, sales risk, operating risk, financial risk, degree of operating leverage, degree of financial leverage, degree of total leverage, analyze the effect of financial leverage on a company’s net income and return on equity, calculate the breakeven quantity of sales and determine the company's net income at various sales levels, breakeven quantity of sales

  5. Working Capital - trade receivables, inventories, trade payables, net working capital, business cycle, DSO, DPO, DIO, working capital efficiency, receivables turnover, inventory efficiency

Each of these sections contains practical examples and challenges aiming to reinforce what you have learned.

The course is beautifully animated and interactive. Our goal is to deliver the ultimate training experience for you.

We are happy to offer an unconditional 30-day money back in full guarantee. No risk for you. The content of the course is excellent, and this is a no-brainer for us, as we are certain you will love it.

Why wait? Every day is a missed opportunity.

Click the “Buy Now” button and become a part of our corporate finance training today.
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Instructor Details

365 Careers

365 Careers is the #1 best-selling provider of business, finance, data science and AI courses on Udemy. The company’s courses have been taken by more than 4,000,000 students in 210 countries. People working at world-class firms like Apple, PayPal, and Citibank have completed 365 Careers trainings.    

Currently, 365 focuses on the following topics on Udemy:    1) Finance – Finance fundamentals, Financial modeling in Excel, Valuation, Accounting, Capital budgeting, Financial statement analysis (FSA), Investment banking (IB), Leveraged buyout (LBO), Financial planning and analysis (FP&A), Corporate budgeting, applying Python for Finance, Tesla valuation case study, CFA, ACCA, and CPA

2) Data science – Statistics, Mathematics, Probability, SQL, Python programming, Python for Finance, Business Intelligence, R, Machine Learning, TensorFlow, Tableau, the integration of SQL and Tableau, the integration of SQL, Python, Tableau, Power BI, Credit Risk Modeling, and Credit Analytics, Data literacy, Product Management, Pandas, Numpy, Python Programming, Data Strategy

3) Entrepreneurship – Business Strategy, Management and HR Management, Marketing, Decision Making, Negotiation, and Persuasion, Tesla's Strategy and Marketing

4) Office productivity – Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Outlook

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By Justin Miller on 3/31/2026

The material was good but the explanations were lacking. Often found myself wanting a bit more clarity on the purpose of equations or concepts, rather than just how to crunch the numbers.

By Basel Alwadiya on 11/25/2025

This is the best course for corporate finance basics and the best course to prepare you for CMA and part of the CFA. I've took a lot of corporate courses on Coursera and Udemy there is no like this course. it simplifies for you everything in a very good way and understandable.

By Erica Hong on 10/29/2025

Course is definitely providing me with further insight as mentioned by Ivan in the beginning of the course. Appreciate the knowledge provided as it helps me to anchor any questions and thoughts about the nature and character of business finance. Look forward to the other topics in the course.

By MRUNAL SURTI on 10/7/2025

The Corporate Finance course was highly insightful and well-structured. It helped me understand key concepts such as time value of money, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and risk-return analysis. The practical examples and exercises made it easier to apply theoretical knowledge to real-world scenarios. Overall, the course enhanced my financial understanding and analytical skills.

By Nzenze Emmanuel Epie Alobwede on 10/2/2025

Very good, It significantly enhanced my understanding of corporate finance as an MBA beginner. It provided practical tools in capital budgeting, cost of capital, leverage, and working capital management, while also contextualizing them within broader governance and ESG frameworks.

By Juan Camilo Motta Burbano on 4/26/2025

Es un curso bastante teórico, el cual es muy claro en las explicaciones de los conceptos. Sin embargo, siento que le hace falta casos prácticos mucho más complejos que nos enseñe los temas vistos desarrollados en la práctica de una analista financiero.

By Summy Tang on 1/14/2023

It is good as sometimes when we do longer with the credit assessment to the creditor it will disregard the special limitation and the course provides a good refreshment to mind set and it focuses the key issues and financial ratio that we supplier most concerned!

By Dinesh Kumar on 6/7/2022

This is start to the Corporate Finance knowledge I was searching for. I lacked so much on the basics, and I had many confusions regarding that. This course solved most of them. I am happy I chose this course.

By Anonymized User on 3/29/2022

This Corporate Finance course ran through a solid curriculum with frequent opportunities to apply learned concepts. Some explanations were lacking, causing confusion and requiring reference of outside materials, but the overall experience was positive.

By Swasti Jain on 12/13/2020

Everything is explained with examples which helps understanding the concepts better.

By Nidhi Bhatia on 11/23/2020

The course covered all major points

By Steven Mueller on 10/18/2020

Good to refresh but for someone now to the topic lots of explanations and concepts missing to actually understand it

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  • Updated: icon December 2025
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