Course details
The financial choices a company makes can impact its performance and valuation—which makes corporate finance an important topic for executives, managers, and accountants alike. Learn the basics of corporate finance and its impact on decision-making and growth. In this course, professors Jim and Kay Stice lay the foundation for how corporate finance works and make the connections between business activity and finance. They discuss the role of risk in financial decision-making, the benefits of diversification, how short- and long-term financing can impact cash flow and business operations, and the various ways businesses use equity or debt to finance corporate capital. Plus, learn about the mysterious capital asset pricing model, CAPM.
Instructors
Jim SticeLinkedIn Learning Instructor at LinkedInJim Stice is a professor of accounting at BYU.
James D. Stice, PhD, is the Distinguished Teaching Professor of Accounting in the School of Accountancy at Brigham Young University (BYU). He teaches business and accounting to university students and to business professionals around the world. Professor Stice has been at BYU since 1988. He has co-authored three accounting textbooks and published numerous professional and academic articles. In addition, Professor Stice has been involved in executive education for Ernst & Young, Bank of America Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation, RSM, and AngloGold Limited and has taught at INSEAD (in both France and Singapore) and CEIBS (in China). He has been recognized for teaching excellence by his department, his college, and the university. Professor Stice currently serves on the audit committee of Deseret Management Corporation and served on the board of directors of a publicly traded company until it was taken private.
Professor Jim Stice received a PhD from the University of Washington as well as master’s and bachelor’s degrees from BYU, all in accounting.
Finance for business decision-making
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– We are all surrounded by finance. – Deciding what things to buy and not to buy. – Getting the money to buy the things that you’ve decided you need and… – Officially managing the resources that you have. – [Jim] This is finance. What to buy, where to get the money to buy it, and how to manage it once you have it. – As you can imagine, finance is important to individuals, to families, to companies, to governments, really to all organizations. – Finance is about risk and the benefits of diversification. – [Kay] Finance is about a company’s capital structure. – [Jim] And no study of finance would be complete without a discussion of the famous capital asset pricing model, the CAPM. – These and other topics are what the field of finance is all about. – Hi, I’m Jim Stice. – I’m Kay Stice. We’re brothers and we’re both business school professors at Brigham Young University. – Join us on LinkedIn Learning and learn how…