The Role and Goal of Financial Management (Udemy.com)
Introduce yourself with the world of finance, the areas of financial decision-making and plan your learning of finance.
Created by: Md Mohan Uddin
Last updated October 2019
What you will learn
- Define finance
- Recognize the specific areas of business finance
- Identify the role, tasks, scope, and challenges of a financial manager
- Recognize the primary goal of financial decision-making
- Align the shareholders wealth maximization with other stakeholders interests
- Compare and choose between profit maximization and share price maximization as the primary goal of financial decision-making
- Plan the pathway of learning finance
How it compares
Against the other 376 rated Udemy courses in Finance & Accounting on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 17% of them
- Reviews645#160 of 377 by number of reviews
- Length0.8 hoursshorter than 96% of them
- Last updatedOctober 2019earlier than 92% of them
Course Description
Almost everyone has to make financial decisions. Even if one is not a business manager or portfolio manager, s/he must make financial decisions appropriately for his/her personal financial well-being, which necessitates a good introduction with the subject matter of finance.
This is the first course in the series of finance courses to be published at Udemy by the course instructor. Every learner of finance should start their lesson by being introduced with the basic definition of finance, goals of financial management, and the areas of financial decision-making.
This course consists of several video lectures that will be updated over time and based on students' requests, and additional resources. The lectures contain explanations of necessary concepts along with examples and illustrations.
After completing this course, a learner would be able to define finance, recognize the specific areas of business finance, identify the role, tasks, scope, and challenges of a financial manager, recognize the primary goal of financial decision-making, align the shareholders wealth maximization with other stakeholders interests, compare and choose between profit maximization and share price maximization as the primary goal of financial decision-making, and plan the pathway of learning finance.
This course is suitable for anyone who wish to achieve financial literacy and/or has the interest about the interesting world of finance. More specifically, entrepreneurs, managers and executives who are going to start learning finance, business students who are going to start learning finance, and anyone who has involvement with financial decision-making would be benefited from this course. This course is also suitable for absolute beginners who have never attended a finance course before, and may continue learning finance at an advanced level in future.
The instructor welcomes his students for continuous discussion with him. Any sort of input for improving the course is also appreciated. He also expects your positive and genuine review and rating of the course.
Instructor Details
- 4.3 Rating
645 Reviews
Md Mohan Uddin
Dr. Md Mohan Uddin is currently a Professor of Finance at United International University. Before that, he held various senior faculty member positions at universities in Bangladesh and Malaysia. He also taught online Masters students of University of Roehampton and supervised online graduate dissertation students of University of Liverpool. During his academic career, he has been teaching undergraduate/graduate level business and finance courses since 2003. The courses he taught include: Corporate Finance, International Finance, Financial Management, Principles of Finance, Investment Analysis, Bank Management, Banking & Insurance, Project Management, Strategic Management, and Computer Applications in Business. He has got his PhD in Finance from Universiti Utara Malaysia, and MBA and BBA degrees majoring in Finance and Banking from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He enjoys making learning and instruction videos and is very much excited to be engaged with online platforms like Udemy and skillshare, where he can utilize those technologies for the purpose of reaching a large number of learners worldwide. In addition to presenting research papers in international conferences he has also been active in publishing research articles in different local and international journals in the area of finance. His area of interest includes corporate finance, capital market and its regulation, international finance, financial criminology, Islamic finance and small
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Reviews
By Venus Merckel on 1/30/2021
Difficult to listen to the accent and sometimes it wasn't very clear initially but it is very easy to understand after the initial stage.
By Rachel Muffitt on 2/29/2020
This helped me to understand the basics of Finance and the goals a financial manger would be looking to achieve. Thankyou
By Musa S Ceesay on 11/8/2019
This is a very good course, the lecturer did extremely well with the explanations and i really learned valuable information's with regards to Financial Management and decision making. Thanks a lot Md Mohan Uddin
By Anonymized User on 7/11/2019
Love the lessons. Great course. I give a 5 star rating, and enjoy the lectures. Obrigado!.
By Atul Kumar Gupta on 5/18/2019
The module gives good understanding on finance management structure, role and objectives, really helpful in widening our view
By Monisha Samanta on 5/11/2019
this topic is briefly explained in simple way. Thanks Udemy for launching this course.
By Timhatcher on 12/5/2018
Very helpful in understanding what a financial manager is and what their purpose is. The video were helpful and were not confusing at all.
By Victor Hernandez on 7/12/2016
this instructor is very effective teaching the material. It was easy to follow and understand the material. I will take this instructor again for sure.
By Izmi Dalhan Carrim on 2/20/2016
needs to improve on presenting the information in a more interactive manner with his explanations the content and design is however good
By Miguel A Pastrana on 1/5/2016
As a non finance person I found that this course was very comprehensive and informative. I know that it will assist me in my career when presenting future IT projects.
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Overall Score : 86 / 100







