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).

Corporate Finance In-practice Webcasts

This is a class that looks at investing through the prism of an investment philosophy, i.e., a coherent way of thinking about markets, how they make mistakes and correct them and how you plan to take advantage of them. The quality of the videos does leave a lot to be desired and I am working on remastering them. If you want a book to accompany this class, try my book on investment philosophies (John Wiley & Sons, Second Edition).

This is an online corporate finance class, composed of an introductory session and 36 more sessions that cover the subject.

This is an online statistics class that is designed to cover the concepts and tools that you are most likely to use or encounter in corporate finance and investing. The website for the class is accessible here: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/webcaststatistics.htm In addition to the links to all of the videos, it also has post class tests/solutions and readings for the class.

An opportunity to learn from the one and only Aswath Demodran

An opportunity to learn from the one and only Aswath Demodran

This playlist is in support of my book on corporate life cycles, published by Penguin Random House. With an introductory video as the lead in, the playlist includes twenty videos, each one in support of a chapter in the book. In each video, I provide a summation of the chapter, with links to slides that back up the presentation. You can find more details of the book at the links below: My webpage for the book: https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar//New_Home_Page/CLC.htm My webpage: damodaran.com Random House link to the book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/723161/the-corporate-lifecycle-by-aswath-damodaran/9780593545065