Curriculum
Finance Foundations
The core ideas every other course assumesStart from the value of time, learn to read a set of statements, then use cost and volume to see how profit behaves. This is the path to take before any specialist course.
- Modules
- 3
- Chapters
- 7
- Concepts
- 8
- Study time
- 175 min
Who it is for
First-year students and anyone returning to finance
By the end you can
You can discount a cash flow, read the three statements together, compute the core ratios, and explain how fixed costs change profit.
- 1
Time and value
The single idea that every valuation model is built on.
Foundation45 min- 1.1
Why a taka today is not a taka tomorrow
Compounding, discounting, and matching rates to periods.
- 1.1
- 2
Reading a business
Turn three statements into a picture of performance, position, and cash.
Foundation70 min- 2.1
The three statements
What each statement records and what it deliberately does not.
- 2.2
How they connect
Profit to cash, and why the balance sheet must balance.
- 2.3
- 2.1
- 3
Cost and volume
How fixed costs turn a sales change into a profit change.
Foundation60 min- 3.1
- 3.2
- 3.3
Operating and financial leverage
The multiplier that magnifies both good and bad periods.