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Course Description
Understanding the basic principles of finance is essential for making important financial decisions ranging from taking out a student loan to constructing an investment portfolio. Combining basic financial knowledge with Python will allow you to construct some very powerful tools. You'll come out of this course understanding the time value of money, how to compare potential projects and how to make rational, data-driven financial decisions.
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Course outline
1
The Time Value of Money
Learn about fundamental financial concepts like the time value of money, growth and rate of return, discount factors, depreciation, and inflation.
- Fundamental financial concepts50 XP
- Growth and rate of return100 XP
- Compound interest100 XP
- Discount factors and depreciation100 XP
- Present and future value50 XP
- Present value100 XP
- Future value100 XP
- Adjusting future values for inflation100 XP
- Net present value and cash flows50 XP
- Discounting cash flows100 XP
- Initial project costs100 XP
- Diminishing cash flows100 XP
2
Making Data-Driven Financial Decisions
In this chapter, you will act as the CEO of a company, making important data-driven financial decisions about projects and financing using measures such as IRR and NPV.
3
Simulating a Mortgage Loan
You just got married, and you're looking for a new home in Hoboken, New Jersey. You will build a mortgage payment simulator to estimate your mortgage payments and analyze different possible economic scenarios.
4
Budgeting Application
You just got a new job as a data scientist in San Francisco, and you're looking for an apartment. In this chapter, you'll be building your own budgeting application to plan out your financial future.
Introduction to Financial Concepts in Python
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