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FIN 101 Introduction to Finance

100 levelManagement & Administration10 topics

FIN 101 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Definition of finance; risk and finance
  2. Business organization
  3. Scope of the finance function
  4. Sources of business finance
  5. Overview of financial statements
  6. Users of financial statements
  7. Financial statement analysis (ratios)
  8. Limitations of ratio analysis
  9. Concept of the time value of money
  10. Simple interest and compound interest

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Definition of finance; risk and finance

Finance is the study of how money is raised, allocated, and used over time, especially when decisions involve uncertainty. For this topic, you must master what finance means, the major financial decision areas, and how risk affects choices, because exam questions often test the relationship between expected return and uncertainty.

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