Knowledge map
Finance, as one connected system.
Concepts are the unit everything connects to: articles teach them, formulas define them, practice assesses them, cases apply them, and the Lab simulates them. This map is generated from one registry, so it stays honest as content grows.
- Concepts
- 31
- Relations
- 160
- Curricula
- 5
- Domains covered
- 13/13
Guided paths
Curricula
Ordered routes through the concepts, from foundations to valuation. Follow one end to end, or jump to the idea you need.
Finance Foundations
The core ideas every other course assumes
3 modules · 175 minInvestment Appraisal
Deciding what capital to commit
3 modules · 190 minMarkets, Risk & Valuation
Pricing assets and weighing risk
4 modules · 235 minModelling & Decisions
From a linked forecast to a defensible choice
2 modules · 90 minMarkets, institutions, and conduct
How finance is practised, and how it should be
3 modules · 225 minDomains
Where the knowledge lives
The taxonomy covers the whole discipline. Empty domains are declared so the architecture is ready, and marked planned until real content arrives.
Financial Management
2How value moves through time, and how a manager allocates capital, working capital, and risk.
Accounting & analysis
5How transactions become statements, how statements are read, and how performance is measured.
Corporate Finance
5Investment appraisal, capital structure, payout, and the cost of capital that connects them.
Investments
6Pricing assets, weighing risk against return, and understanding what markets imply.
Valuation
1Estimating what a business, project, or security is worth, and why.
Banking
2Deposits, lending, liquidity, regulation, and the economics of a financial intermediary.
Risk
2Identifying, measuring, and managing financial risk across market, credit, and liquidity.
Derivatives
2Forwards, futures, options, and swaps: pricing, payoffs, and hedging.
International Finance
1Exchange rates, parity conditions, and cross-border capital decisions.
Behavioral Finance
1How bias, framing, and heuristics shape financial decisions.
Financial Modeling
1Building forecasts, sensitivities, and scenarios that hold together.
Fintech
2Payments, lending, and market infrastructure rebuilt with software.
Ethics
1Professional standards, conflicts of interest, and responsible practice.
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31 of 31 concepts
Time value of money
Money today is worth more than the same money later because it can be invested now.
Study this ideaCompounding and discounting
Simple interest applies to principal only; compound interest applies to principal plus accumulated interest.
Study this ideaReading financial statements
The income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement describe performance, position, and cash.
Study this ideaHow the three statements connect
Net income flows into equity, depreciation and working capital bridge profit to cash, and the balance sheet must balance.
Study this ideaRatio analysis
Ratios turn statements into comparable signals of profitability, liquidity, leverage, and efficiency.
Study this ideaNPV and IRR
Net present value discounts a project's cash flows and subtracts the outlay to measure value created.
Study this ideaIRR and payback
IRR is the discount rate that makes a project's NPV zero; payback measures how quickly the outlay returns.
Study this ideaBreak-even analysis
Break-even is the volume at which contribution exactly covers fixed costs and profit is zero.
Study this ideaCost-volume-profit
Cost-volume-profit connects price, variable cost, fixed cost, volume, and profit in one model.
Study this ideaWorking capital management
Working capital is the cash tied up in receivables and inventory, net of what suppliers finance.
Study this ideaCost of capital (WACC)
WACC is the blended after-tax cost of a company's equity and debt, and the discount rate for average-risk projects.
Study this ideaCAPM and beta
CAPM estimates the return investors require for a risky asset from beta and the market risk premium.
Study this ideaOperating and financial leverage
Operating and financial leverage magnify how a change in sales becomes a change in earnings.
Study this ideaBond pricing and yield
A bond's price is the present value of its coupons and face value at the market yield.
Study this ideaBond duration and interest-rate risk
Duration converts a change in yield into an approximate change in a bond's price, and convexity corrects the estimate.
Study this ideaDividend discount model
The dividend discount model values a share as the present value of its future dividends.
Study this ideaRisk and return
Expected return is the probability-weighted average outcome; risk is the dispersion around it.
Study this ideaFinancial risk management
Financial risk management identifies, measures, and mitigates the exposures that threaten a firm's cash and solvency.
Study this ideaPortfolio risk and diversification
Combining assets changes risk in a way that depends on correlation, not on the number of holdings.
Study this ideaFinancial modelling
A model links drivers to the three statements so that assumptions become visible, testable consequences.
Study this ideaBehavioural finance and bias
Predictable departures from rational choice, what they cost, and the decision process that limits them.
Study this ideaBank intermediation
A bank earns a spread by funding loans with deposits, and thin capital turns a small asset loss into a large loss of equity.
Study this ideaCredit risk and expected loss
Expected loss is probability of default times loss given default times exposure at default, and it has to be priced into every loan.
Study this ideaMarket, credit, and liquidity risk
Market risk is measured with rate gaps and value at risk, credit risk with expected loss, and liquidity risk with a 30-day coverage buffer.
Study this ideaForwards, futures, and hedging
A derivative transfers risk: the forward price follows the cost of carry, and a hedge fixes a price at the cost of giving up the upside.
Study this ideaOptions and asymmetric payoffs
An option gives the right but not the obligation; the premium buys asymmetry and moves the break-even away from the strike.
Study this ideaExchange rates and parity
Covered interest parity ties the forward rate to the two interest rates, and purchasing power parity anchors the long-run spot rate to inflation.
Study this ideaPayments economics
Payments businesses earn a thin merchant fee on volume, so cost per transaction and fraud control decide whether they make money.
Study this ideaDigital lending unit economics
Contribution per loan, break-even volume, and acquisition payback decide whether a digital lender scales into profit or into losses.
Study this ideaEthics and conflicts of interest
Conflicts of interest are structural, and expected-value arithmetic can be correct while leaving out the costs that matter most.
Study this ideaBusiness valuation methods
A business can be valued from what similar companies sell for or from the cash it will produce; the two answers should be reconciled, not averaged blindly.
Study this ideaEvery concept is a data record. The knowledge map, the graph, and the curricula are all generated from the same registry, so they cannot fall out of sync.
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Time value of money
Money today is worth more than the same money later because it can be invested now.
Study this ideaCompounding and discounting
Simple interest applies to principal only; compound interest applies to principal plus accumulated interest.
Study this ideaReading financial statements
The income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement describe performance, position, and cash.
Study this idea