Introduction to Finance
University of Michigan via Coursera
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About the original MOOC:This course is primarily devoted to the fundamental principles of valuation. We will learn and apply the concepts of time value of money and risk to understand the major determinants of value creation. We will use both theory and real world examples to demonstrate how to value any asset.
Subtitles for all video lectures available in: Chinese (provided by Yeeyan), English, Portuguese (Lemann Foundation), and Ukrainian (Pinchuk Foundation)
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Taught by
Gautam Kaul
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Reviews
3.9 rating, based on 43 reviews
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Anonymous completed this course.
This was a frustrating class. The first few weeks were awesome, but then things started to deteriorate. There were four main problems: 1) Principles were explained in a very simple way, but never presented in their complicated real-life settings during... -
Wan Kong Yew completed this course and found the course difficulty to be hard.
One of the distinguishing characteristics of this class is that Professor’s Kaul’s lectures consist of a high proportion of what I would call conversational fluff. That is, the professor spends a lot of time talking about himself, his love of finance... -
Yury Bakalov completed this course and found the course difficulty to be hard.
I decided to wright the review because of a negative experience some had with it. First of all, I have to say that this is definitely one of the best courses I ever took or even more the best one. It is not perfect, but still my favorite. If you ever... -
Met Bay completed this course, spending 6 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.
Warning: I don't recommend this course to anyone. Do not lose your money, do not lose your time. Why? - No practice questions before exams. - They don't give the correct answers of the exams. So you don't have the possibility to understand your mistakes. -... -
Anonymous completed this course.
There are a few things I can tell you about this course that may be of value. The professor obviously knows his subject well as he is able to conceptualize large subjects into their very essence. I do have to challenge one thing he relayed in a video;... -
Anonymous completed this course.
This is the course I have taken so far with the longest videos (around 20 minutes each, lots of them), least useful information in each video, and assigments nowhere near the content of the videos. Find another course for introduction to finance. -
Anonymous completed this course.
In contrast with most courses I have taken in Coursera, this Introduction to Finance course is not self-contained and requires that you learn the subject on your own using external resources not included with this course. The provided videos are not aligned... -
Anonymous Coward completed this course, spending 3 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.
I'm not sure why the reviews seem to be so polar in that some people love the class, and others hated it. This course is by far the worst of any that I have bothered to stick to the very end. The class structure could best be described as one part finance... -
Martin Gehrke completed this course, spending 5 hours a week on it.
The way the course is structured allows me to accomplish the necessary work within my schedule. There is usually about 1-2 hours of video lectures divided into roughly 20 minutes chunks, followed by a assignment that takes another 2 hours. This allows... -
Anonymous completed this course.
A challenging class presented by a likeable lecturer. Access to Microsoft Excel or a financial calculator is a must. I give it five stars for the tremendous amount of material that I learned, but it's not quite perfect. Some of the assignment questions... -
Srdjan is taking this course right now.
I find professor Gautam genuine and very interesting person. I enjoyed his lectures, but what I didn't like, and what made me drop this course after 3rd week, is that tests are just to hard comparing to what is thought in lectures. I have scored ~90%... -
Abhineet Kumar completed this course.
The quality of the course is really good, and perhaps it is the most important factor which brings me here. I am doing the same course at Amity University, and found that quite a few things were lacking. One was the lack of doing practical, real-world... -
Matt completed this course.
The Intro to Finance course offered by Gautam Kaul is a solid choice if you have an interest in finance. The quality of the course itself was superb and I thought the problem sets were well-done. The problems were a mix of basic to advanced with many problems presenting some subtle nuances that were easily missed and turned out to be very important. This course will require some work but
This is a great beginning course in finance with a great professor that will offer some challenge without being overwhelming. I would recommend it as a great first technical course to take if you have any interest in finance. -
Anonymous is taking this course right now.
Lack of meaningful feedback from quizzes (e.g."think about it"),endless peripheral chatter, and poor delivery of material consumes time and frustrates the learning process, if not actively working against it. I suggest giving this one a miss. -
Anonymous completed this course.
I guess you'll find a lot of courses talking about the technical details of finance but what makes this course so special is the fact that Prof. Gautam Kaul will relentlessly try to make you imbibe the essence of finance in each of his lectures (which is actually the reason why videos tend to be long). I believe books can efficiently deliver the technicalities of any subject but an online lecture has to deliver what books can not which is precisely what this course intends to do. -
Anonymous completed this course.
Remarkably challenging course. Entails discipline and curiosity to learn the difficult principles on your own. Best online class ever. Professor Gautam was interviewed by 'The Business Week" and stated this course is equivalent to taking an MBA in the TOP universities.
Highly recommended! -
Anonymous completed this course.
Excellent class, very informative and fun to watch. Professor Kaul is outstanding instructor. Thanks a lot for your passion and wisdom that made learning not very fun subject such as finance a truly enjoyable. Highly recommended. -
Anonymous completed this course.
Prof. Kaul is a real personage.
I liked a lot his course and the way he teach it.
This was very intersting and profound.
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Anonymous completed this course.
It was a great learning experience. Of course, we were expected to do our own research outside of the given material. I'm not sure why that would be a problem.
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Anonymous completed this course.
Great experience! Very challenging and practice driven class. Prof Kaul is so charismatic and gifted educator, that learning becomes so interesting!