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How it works
Strategic Financial Value Creation
Enhance your financial acumen with Duke Corporate Education
This short course is designed by Duke Corporate Education, a subsidiary of Duke University.
Designed specifically for non-financial managers, this online short course from Duke University’s Duke CE elevates your financial understanding and empowers you with the knowledge to drive business growth and value creation.
Through practical exercises, you’ll gain the financial skills needed to analyse performance, understand business models, and make informed decisions.
Explore the four cornerstones of value creation
You’ll discover the essential principles that drive long-term value creation in any organisation. This module will cover positive spread, healthy cash flows, meeting investor expectations, and sustaining competitive advantage.
By understanding these cornerstones, you’ll contribute to strategies that ensure the success and longevity of your business and long-term professional development.
Understand and leverage key value drivers
You’ll learn about the key factors influencing a company’s value, including revenue growth, cost efficiency, asset utilisation, and more.
With this insight, you’ll be better equipped to leverage these value drivers effectively and implement strategies that maximise your organisation’s performance.
Assess financial health with free cash flow (FCF) metrics
Gain a critical understanding of how to assess your company’s financial health through Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and Free Cash Flow (FCF) metrics.
By the end of this course, you’ll have an understanding of key financial principles and metrics, empowering you to drive value creation and make informed decisions.
Syllabus
Week 1
Welcome to Financial Value Creation!
Overview and Course Introduction
In this first week, you will receive a course overview, learn about your instructor's background, and have an opportunity to introduce yourself and meet your peers.
Introduce Yourself and Meet Your Peers
Your opportunity to introduce yourself and meet your peers.
Week 2
The Four Cornerstones of Value Creation
Getting Started
In this module, you'll explore the Four Cornerstones of Value Creation: spread, cash flow, expectations, and competitive advantage, all key to driving long-term business success.
Putting it into Practice
In this section, you will begin to apply key concepts and learnings to an actual case study.
Module at a Glance
In this module, you explored the Four Cornerstones of Value Creation, focusing on spread, cash flow, expectations, and competitive advantage. Take a moment to reflect on how these concepts apply to real-world business scenarios.
Four Cornerstones of Value Creation Quiz
Test your knowledge of key concepts such as spread, cash flow, expectations, and competitive advantage. It helps reinforce your understanding of how these elements drive long-term business success.
Week 3
Key Value Drivers
Getting Started
In this module, you will learn how to identify the key factors that influence a company’s value, including revenue growth, cost efficiency, asset utilization, and capital allocation, and how to leverage them effectively.
Putting it into Practice
In this section, you will begin to apply key concepts and learnings to an actual case study.
Module at a Glance
In this module, you explored the Key Value Drivers. Take a moment to reflect on how these concepts apply to real-world business scenarios.
Key Value Drivers Quiz
Test your knowledge of key concepts such as spread, cash flow, expectations, and competitive advantage. It helps reinforce your understanding of how these elements drive long-term business success.
Week 4
Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and Free Cash Flow (FCF)
Getting Started
In this week, we introduce another metric of financial performance - free cash flow. This metric identifies companies that can maintain long-term competitive advantage by funding growth and returning value to investors.
Putting it into Practice
In this section, you will begin to apply key concepts and learnings to an actual case study.
Module at a Glance
In this module, you explored free cash flow and how the spread of a business contributes to value creation. Take a moment to reflect on how these concepts apply to real-world business scenarios.
Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and Free Cash Flow (FCF) Quiz
Test your knowledge of key concepts learnt. It helps reinforce your understanding of how these elements drive long-term business success.
Week 5
Risk
Getting Started
This week, we explore financial risk, focusing on potential outcomes, uncertainty, and risk premium, which affects the cost of capital. It also offers guidance on how to communicate investment risks effectively.
Putting it into Practice
In this section, you will begin to apply key concepts and learnings to an actual case study.
Module at a Glance
This week explores financial risk and the cost of capital, defining risk as uncertainty in outcomes. It covers the importance of risk and how to measure and manage risk effectively, including strategies for clear communication.
Risk Quiz
Test your knowledge of key concepts such as spread, cash flow, expectations, and competitive advantage. It helps reinforce your understanding of how these elements drive long-term business success.
Course Reflection
Now that you have completed the course on Financial value Creation, consider this opportunity to reflect on what we've learned and engage in a meaningful discussion with your peers.
When would you like to start?
Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Explore essential principles such as positive spread, healthy cash flows, meeting investor expectations, and sustaining competitive advantage to create long-term value in an organization.
- Identify key factors that influence a company’s value, including revenue growth, cost efficiency, asset utilization, and capital allocation, and learn how to leverage them effectively.
- Demonstrate the importance of Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and Free Cash Flow (FCF) as critical metrics for assessing a company’s financial health and investment attractiveness.
- Practice a comprehensive understanding of risk from a financial perspective, examining it as a distribution of potential outcomes and exploring its impact on decision-making.
Who is the course for?
This course is ideal for non-financial managers and professionals seeking to enhance their financial acumen to make better business decisions. No prior finance experience is needed, but a basic understanding of business operations and strategic thinking will be beneficial.
Who will you learn with?
Part of Duke University, Duke Corporate Education (Duke CE) is the premier global provider of leadership solutions in context.
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Choose the best way to learn for you!
Subscribe & save
$244.99 for a whole year
Automatically renews
Develop skills to further your career
- Access to this course
- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
Cancel for free anytime
Buy this course
$109/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
Limited access
Free
Sample the course materials
- Access expires 19 Mar 2025
Find out more about certificates, Unlimited or buying a course (Upgrades) Sale price available until 3 March 2025 at 23:59 (UTC). T&Cs apply. |
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Sale price available until 3 March 2025 at 23:59 (UTC). T&Cs apply.
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