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UniversityofCambridge: Building stakeholder value
Sustainable businesses need to earn consistent and predictable profits. Find out what terms like ‘internal rate of return’, ‘discounted cash flow’ and DCF analysis actually mean in practice and how you can use them to the advantage of the business.

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5 weeks at 3-5 hours per week
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Online - Self Paced
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UniversityofCambridge
About UniversityofCambridge: Building stakeholder value
Through this five week course you will not only learn key financial concepts, but how to apply them to a business to improve its financial prospects.
As you know, sustainable businesses need to earn consistent and predictable profits, but it is important to understand how these are calculated. Different accounting techniques, and how to value a business are explored throughout the sessions below:
Profits aren't enough - servicing capital providers
Future value, Present value and Net present value
Internal rate of return, Yield and Total shareholder return
Valuation, Market and Book values
Growing and Safeguarding stakeholder value __
Whether one of your KPIs is Total shareholder return, or you want to understand the figures associated with your capital investments, this course will de-mystify financial reports and help you to make balanced assessments of risks and opportunities.
What You Will Learn?
- Project evaluation & discounted cash flow techniques.
- Net present value, internal rate of return, and total shareholder return.
- Market values and book values.
- What traditional accounting misses out.
- Shareholders and other stakeholders.