About this Course
Finance for Everyone: Decisions will introduce you to the workings of the free markets and the foundations of finance. You will learn how free markets and their “creative destruction” provide the architecture for the global economy and how those same markets move money in ways that create and destroy wealth. Your financial toolkit will include timeless concepts like compounding, discounting, annuities, effective interest rates, and more. You will also learn how to simplify important financial calculations and apply that knowledge to real-life decisions that can influence everything from how you pay for your car to where you live. Through peer review you will publish your view on an issue important to you. You will also discover how your applied decisions connect to bigger questions relating to changing market conditions as you prepare for the second course in F4E: Markets
What You'll Learn
- Understand financial markets and mechanisms
- Explain creative destruction role in economy
- Analyze money flow effects on wealth
- Simplify key financial calculations
- Apply knowledge to real-life decisions
- Publish financial views via peer review
Prerequisites
- Basic computer and internet skills
- Ability to follow English instructions and complete exercises
Instructors
Arshad Ahmad
Professor