Principles of Finance

Overview

The Principles of Finance professional graduate certificate is offered by Harvard University.

Key learning outcomes:

• Enhance your knowledge of the tools and analysis methods used in business, finance, and the economy through accounting, finance, and economics.
• Learn the accounting principles required for informed managerial decisions, such as cost terminology, cost behavior, cost systems, activity-based costing, budgeting, cost-volume-profit analysis, cost estimating, variance analysis, and responsibility accounting.
• Develop knowledge of the agents, instruments, and institutions that make up the financial system of the modern economy, such as bonds, the stock market, derivatives, and the money market.
• Develop an understanding of economic principles and methods, such as microeconomic theory, market theory, optimization, bargaining theory, externalities, and how they apply to business and the economy.
• Gain expertise in a focused topic area, such as capital markets and investments, investment banking, valuation, risk management, and nonprofit financial management.

To meet the requirements for the certificate, you must:

• Complete four certificate courses for graduate credit.
• Earn at least a B grade in each course.
• Complete the courses within three years.