Finance MicroMasters

What you will learn:
- Comprehend the foundations of modern finance.
- Understand the basics of corporate finance, capital budgeting, real and financial options, capital structure, yield curve analysis, and corporate risk management.
- Apply financial decision making, the theory of efficient markets, valuation theory, financial securities, risk analysis, portfolio theory, derivatives pricing, hedging strategies based on duration and convexity, and asset pricing models.
- Identify the basic structure of financial reports and the process of recording transactions. Understand how investors, creditors, and other users analyze financial statements to assess corporate performance.
- Perform applied computational techniques in R and apply advanced mathematical topics in financial engineering and quantitative finance using linear algebra, optimization, probability, stochastic processes, and statistics.

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Derivatives Markets: Advanced Modeling and Strategies (edX)

Sep 18th 2024
Derivatives Markets: Advanced Modeling and Strategies (edX)
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Financial derivatives are ubiquitous in global capital markets. Students will obtain a sophisticated understanding of valuation methods; tools for quantifying, hedging, and speculating on risk; and a basic familiarity with major markets and instruments. Financial derivatives are ubiquitous in global capital markets, and those products and the institutions around [...]

Foundations of Modern Finance I (edX)

Sep 18th 2024
Foundations of Modern Finance I (edX)
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A mathematically rigorous framework to understand financial markets delivered with data-driven insights from MIT professors. This is a two-part course, and part of the MicroMasters® Program in Finance. It provides a rigorous and comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of modern finance and their applications to business challenges in valuation, [...]

Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance (edX)

Jun 26th 2024
Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance (edX)
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Learn the mathematical foundations essential for financial engineering and quantitative finance: linear algebra, optimization, probability, stochastic processes, statistics, and applied computational techniques in R. Modern finance is the science of decision making in an uncertain world, and its language is mathematics. As part of the MicroMasters® Program in Finance, [...]

Financial Accounting (edX)

Apr 3rd 2024
Financial Accounting (edX)
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How do investors, creditors, and other users analyze financial statements to assess corporate performance? Learn financial accounting, how to read financial statements, and how to gather inputs to valuation models.

Foundations of Modern Finance II (edX)

Jan 3rd 2024
Foundations of Modern Finance II (edX)
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Learn fundamental principles of modern finance, including valuation models, methods for risk analysis, derivative instruments and investment management. Many of the most important financial decisions in business are done under uncertainty. This is the second course in the Foundations of Modern Finance series of courses, as part of the [...]