Corporate Finance — an in-depth practical approach

Course overview

Description generated based on course syllabus and open data.

The Corporate Finance program covers analysis of financial statements (P&L, Cash Flow, Balance Sheet), budgeting and variance (plan vs actual), unit economics of products and customers with cohort techniques, building financial models for projects and companies, and identifying and monitoring financial risks.

Instructor and expertise in corporate finance

Oleksandr Krot — Investment Director at QPartners.

• 13+ years in financial management and modeling;
• operational finance leadership at UNIT.City (budgeting, work with international lenders, investment deal support, auditor coordination);
• set up budgeting, financial controlling and reporting from scratch at UNIT.City, UDP Renewables, Dragon Capital;
• built financial models and participated in fundraising of about €60M;
• experience in IFRS-based reporting (collaboration with KPMG);
• ACCA-qualified (UK), MBA.

Corporate finance: who it fits and who it may not

Best fit

• business owners and executives working with budgets and financial KPIs;
• CFOs, analysts, controllers and accountants transitioning to FP&A;
• product managers and operations leads measuring unit economics and margins;
• investment analysts and strategy professionals.

May not fit

• those seeking basic bookkeeping from scratch without analytics or modeling;
• those needing only local tax specifics;
• those expecting marketing or sales topics instead of corporate finance;
• those expecting guaranteed outcomes without individual practice.

Corporate finance problems → expected learning outcomes

• Fragmented data and low transparency → structured budgets, actuals and variance analysis for operations.
• Opaque product/customer margins → unit economics and cohort analysis for profitability segmentation.
• Short-term focus → company/project financial models with scenarios and sensitivity.
• Rising financial risks → risk identification, limits, policies and basic monitoring indicators.
• Hard-to-read statements → systematic interpretation of P&L, cash flows and balance sheet.

Corporate finance vs learning alternatives

• Self-study: heterogeneous sources, difficult to assemble a coherent methodology and cases.
• Short webinars: fragmented, limited depth without financial modeling.
• Basic accounting courses: focused on bookkeeping, often without unit economics and cohort analysis.
• General MBA: broad overview, less practice in models and variance processes.

Corporate finance learning outcomes (skills)

• advanced analysis and interpretation of financial statements;
• building budgets, maintaining actuals and conducting plan-vs-actual analysis;
• calculating product/customer unit economics, cohort analysis and segmentation;
• developing financial models for projects and companies with basic scenarios;
• identifying and monitoring financial risks, setting limits and policies;
• communicating with auditors and lenders, preparing structured financial reporting.