Corporate Finance and Business Intelligence

blended course

This course provides an overview over the M&A process as well as the fundamentals of corporate finance. We put special emphasis on the use of modern business intelligence tools (e.g. Power BI) to tackle a wide variety of real-world financial problems focusing on corporate decision-making, and financial modelling.

Key concepts and applications include: time value of money, cost of capital, performance measurement and asset valuation. Hence, you will learn to consume, analyze and model financial data based on state-of-the-art data analytics tools. Adopting a user perspective, you will learn how to create data models to inform different corporate finance decisions building on large amounts of data.

Using Microsoft Power BI, the course seeks to enable you to design dashboards with the goal to analyze and visualize corporate financials in the M&A process.

Course leader

Dr. Andreas Woltschläger
Dr. Gereon Hillert

Target group

Bachelor students, Master students as well as young professionals and scientists with an interest in corporate finance and business intelligence.

Course aim

Understand the M&A process as well as the fundamentals of corporate finance. Make use of modern business intelligence tools (e.g. Power BI) to tackle a wide variety of corporate financial decisions as well as financial modelling.

Credits info

6 EC
60 contact hours worth up to 6 ECTS credits

Fee info

EUR 300: Registration Fee
EUR 1150: Tuition