Corporate Finance in Practice

Struggling to understand how finance works in a corporate environment? This corporate finance summer school will offer the insights you are looking for. You will learn all the finance and management basics, as well as their uses and limitations. You will also come to understand corporate finance theory and the fundamentals of risk management. This course is really practical: the last day is dedicated to a company visit. Programme Structure and Course focus on The Accounting Equation and the Balance Sheet, Management of working capital, Budgeting and Risk Management and Strategic Business Development.

Key Benefits

• Understand the role of financial accounting compared to management accounting.
• Understand and prepare basic financial statements for various businesses.
• Prepare budgets and other budgetary control statements.
• Understand the mechanics of corporate financial analysis as it relates to valuing businesses.
• Recognise how a finance function is organized, who the stakeholders are and what their objectives are, and what sources and types of finance are available to businesses.
• Understand the role of a CFO within an organisation.
• Explain how a corporate organisation is structured and financed.
• Understand the concepts behind strategic business development.

Who is the course for?

This summer finance school is ideal for undergraduates who want to acquire new skills in finance while enjoying a lively summer in London. The course is also suitable for graduate students within a year of graduation.

English Language

• Common European Framework (CEF) Level B2* or equivalent, (all teaching and learning materials are provided in English only)
• Please note those with a B1 level of English and relevant proof of further study will be considered.