- Subject: Investment
- Fees: $100
- CPD: 3 Hours
- Prerequisites: Basic Accounting
- Advance preparation: None
- Course Level: Intermediate
- Delivery Method: E-Learning
- Language: English
Course description
The course is aimed to assist student with investment planning of Analyzing Common Stocks and Stock Valuation.
Learning objectives
Analyzing Common Stocks
- Discuss the security analysis process, including its goals and functions.
- Understand the purpose and contributions of economic analysis.
- Describe the industry analysis and note how investors use it.
- Demonstrate a basic appreciation of fundamental analysis and why it is used.
- Calculate a variety of financial ratios and describe how analysts use financial statement analysis to gauge the financial vitality of a company.
- Use various financial measures to assess a company’s performance and explain how the insights derived form the basic input for the valuation process.
Stock Valuation
- Explain the role that a company’s future plays in the stock valuation process.
- Develop a forecast of a stock’s expected cash flow, starting with corporate sales and earnings and then moving to expected dividends and share price.
- Develop a forecast of a stock’s expected cash flow, starting with corporate sales and earnings and then moving to expected dividends and share price.
- Determine the underlying value of a stock using the zero-growth, constant-growth, and variable growth dividend valuation models.
- Use other types of present value-based models to derive the value of stock as well as alternative price-relative procedures.
- Understand the procedures used to value different types of stocks, from traditional dividend-paying shares to more growth-oriented stocks.
Assessment
This course is delivered in the Moodle Learning Management System (MLS), with access for a duration of 90 days from the date of enrollment. Instructional materials, including voice-over PowerPoint presentations, videos, and additional reading materials, are provided throughout the course.
Attendance/Participation — Full attendance is required to complete the E-Learning Activities course. Participation in ‘Thinking Break’ activities and exams serves as the elements for attendance. Each PowerPoint slide is set with a minimum viewing time before students can advance to the next slide. At each subsection of the slides, students are required to engage in ‘Thinking Break’ activities before proceeding to the next subsection. After completing all reading and viewing assignments, students must attain at least a grade of 70% on the exams to successfully complete the E-Learning course.
