From the course: Corporate Finance Foundations
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- Okay, let's review what we've talked about in this finance course. - The first thing we did was introduce the topic of finance by addressing the question, what is finance? - [No Glasses Man] Finance is deciding what you should buy, how you should get the money to buy it, and how you should manage it once you have it. - Then we talked about the trade-off between risk and return. - We discussed the components of the most famous of all finance equations, the capital asset pricing model. - That's right. We talked about systematic risk, also known as beta. We discussed the risk free rate and we discussed the equity risk premium. - We also talked about capital structure. What's the optimal way, the most value increasing way, to finance my operations given our expected return? - Then we moved to a discussion of the securities markets where stocks and bonds are traded. - Then we talked about capital budgeting and the…
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