From the course: Corporate Finance Foundations

Finance for business decision making

From the course: Corporate Finance Foundations

Finance for business decision making

- We're all surrounded by finance. - Deciding what things to buy and not to buy. - Getting the money to buy the things that you've decided you need and. - Efficiently managing the resources that you have. - [Jim] This is finance. What to buy, where to get the money to buy it, and how to manage it once you have it. Finance is about risk and the benefits of diversification. - [Kay] Finance is about a company's capital structure. - [Jim] And no study of finance would be complete without a discussion of the famous capital asset pricing model, the cap M. - These and other topics are what the field of finance is all about. - Hi, I'm Jim Stice. - I'm Kay Stice. We're brothers. And we're both business school professors at Brigham Young University. - Join us on LinkedIn Learning and learn how finance applies to your career.

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