Foundations of Finance
13 videos • 479,159 views • by Aswath Damodaran This is an introduction to the basic tools in finance, meant as preview to my corporate finance and valuation classes. It starts with an introduction to how a business is structured, using a financial balance sheet as its construct. After an introduction to the intuition behind how we measure cash flows and risk, it looks at the time value of money, at the heart of so much we do in finance. It ends with three short sessions, the first on valuing contractual claims (like bonds), the second on valuing residual claims (like equity) and third on valuing contingent claims (like options). The webpage for this class is: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/Ne...