This is an introductory course to corporate finance from the perspective of a company’s chief financial officer (CFO). The first part covers financial planning and budgeting, financial analysis, and short-term financial management. The second part will help you develop a valuation framework for making investment decisions (capital budgeting) for new equipment, launching new products, managing mergers and acquisitions and LBOs, and making funding/financing decisions to be coordinated with those investment decisions. Special attention is given to the cost of capital and valuing stocks, bonds, convertible debt, and preferred stocks in the context of global capital markets.