Finance Fundamentals
An intuitive, interactive Finance Fundamentals course covering the core toolkit of modern finance: the time value of money, loans and amortization, bonds and the yield curve, discounted-cash-flow valuation, risk and return, the capital asset pricing model and cost of capital, options and derivatives, financial statements and ratios, and personal financial planning. Every lesson pairs plain-language explanations with precise curves, worked examples, hands-on simulations, and practice you can check yourself.
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The Time Value of Money
The single most important idea in finance: a dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow. Compounding, discounting, annuities, and effective rates.
Loans & Amortization
How loans really work: the payment formula, the amortization schedule, APR versus APY, and the payoff impact of extra payments.
Bonds & Fixed Income
Price a bond, understand yield to maturity, measure interest-rate sensitivity with duration, and read the yield curve.
Project Valuation & DCF
Turn future cash flows into a decision today: net present value, the internal rate of return, payback, and sensitivity analysis.
Risk & Return
Measure return and volatility, see why diversification is the only free lunch in finance, and build the efficient frontier of two-asset portfolios.
CAPM & Cost of Capital
Systematic risk and beta, the security market line, the cost of equity and debt, and the weighted average cost of capital.
Options & Derivatives
Read option payoff diagrams, connect calls and puts with put-call parity, and build intuition for what drives an option's value.
Financial Statements & Ratios
The three statements and how they link, plus the liquidity, leverage, profitability, and DuPont ratios that turn them into insight.
Personal Finance & Planning
Put it together for a household: the savings rate, compound savings growth, retirement drawdown, and real returns after inflation.
New lessons are added continuously. Prefer to test yourself? Try the Finance Fundamentals Aptitude test.