MBA Finance
The full 50-day path — from what a business is, to a company valuation you build yourself. 250 modules, each one a concept plus a locked checkpoint.
What a business is, value creation, the profit equation, the eight MBA disciplines, and the running café case.
Finance as the language of business, the three questions of corporate finance, time-value and risk–return intuition, opportunity cost and thinking at the margin.
Accrual vs cash, revenue recognition, COGS and gross profit, operating expenses, EBIT and EBITDA, interest, taxes and net income.
Assets, liabilities and equity, working capital, depreciation and amortisation, and reading a real balance sheet.
Why profit isn't cash, the cash flow statement, the cash conversion cycle, how the three statements connect, GAAP vs IFRS.
Liquidity, leverage, profitability and return ratios (ROA, ROE, ROIC), efficiency ratios, the DuPont decomposition, common-size statements.
Benchmarking, trend analysis, red flags and earnings quality, segment and off-balance-sheet analysis, building a one-page diagnostic.
Present and future value, discounting and compounding, annuities and perpetuities, loan amortisation, lease-vs-buy decisions.
The investment decision, net present value, internal rate of return, payback and profitability index, incremental cash flows, sunk costs.
Depreciation tax shields, a project's terminal value, sensitivity and scenario analysis, mutually exclusive projects and capital rationing.
Measuring risk and return, the historical record, the risk premium, correlation and diversification, systematic vs unsystematic risk.
The efficient frontier, the capital market line, beta, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, the security market line, alpha and factor models.
The efficient market hypothesis, active vs passive investing, and why most active managers underperform.
Cost of equity and debt, the tax shield, building WACC, the hurdle rate, project-specific rates, unlevering and relevering beta.
Debt vs equity, leverage, Modigliani–Miller, the tradeoff and pecking-order theories, dividends vs buybacks, the optimal structure.
The three approaches to value, free cash flow to firm and equity, forecasting revenue, margins and reinvestment.
Terminal value methods, the danger when it dominates, discounting to enterprise value, and equity value per share.
P/E, EV/EBITDA and price-to-book, choosing comparables, precedent transactions, valuing growth and startups, a full valuation.
Why companies combine, synergies, valuing a target, accretion/dilution, cash vs stock, the winner's curse, the leveraged buyout.
The PE and VC models, the startup funding ladder, cap tables and dilution, SAFEs, pre/post-money valuation, and going public.
How markets are organised, interest rates, bond pricing and yield to maturity, the yield curve, duration and credit risk.
Forwards and futures, hedging, call and put options, payoff diagrams, Black–Scholes intuition, and real options.
Central banks and monetary policy, inflation and asset prices, foreign exchange and managing currency risk.
Biases, overconfidence, anchoring and loss aversion, herding and bubbles, the three-statement model, driver-based forecasting.
Corporate finance as one system, ROIC vs cost of capital, capital allocation, ethics, and valuing a company from scratch.
Grading system
Every module ends in a checkpoint: two questions, locked the moment you answer — no retries, no second attempts. Across 250 modules that's 500 marks. Your Learn50 Score is the percentage you get right, and it earns a Tier you can put on LinkedIn or your résumé. The credential is real because the test was real.
Everything in the full course.
Across 50 days, five a day — about 30 minutes each.
Scored, one attempt each. No retries — so the score is real.
A Learn50 Score out of 100 and a Tier, from Bronze to Diamond.
An MBA-grade Certificate from Learn50, on completion — for your CV and LinkedIn.