{"id":738,"date":"2025-12-01T13:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business-graduate-advising\/?page_id=738"},"modified":"2025-12-01T13:43:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:43:26","slug":"emba-finance-prep","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business-graduate-advising\/emba\/emba-finance-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"EMBA Finance Prep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"uwm-u-pb-80 uwm-u-pt-0\"><div class=\"uwm-l-container--base uwm-l-container--overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<p class=\"size-p-lg\">Dr. Floros is providing a little preparation material for you to become comfortable with the financial vocabulary prior to the September workshops. The workshops and spring course you will have with him emphasizes capital depreciation schedules, discounted cash flows and corporate financial statements. It is helpful to be comfortable with basic financial concepts such as weighted average cost of capital (WACC), the time value of money, and internal rate of return (IRR). As such, he has personally put together a collection of online videos that cover these basic financial concepts for you to review below:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--4 uwm-l-offset--1\"><div class=\"content_block\" id=\"custom_post_widget-732\"><nav aria-label=\"Sidebar\" class=\"uwm-p-navigation-list uwm-p-navigation-list--gold-border \"><div class=\"uwm-p-navigation-list--title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business-graduate-advising\/emba\/\">EMBA<\/a><\/div><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business-graduate-advising\/emba\/emba-analytics-prep\/\">EMBA Analytics Prep<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business-graduate-advising\/emba\/ebma-accounting-prep\/\">EBMA Accounting Prep<\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business-graduate-advising\/emba\/emba-finance-prep\/\"><span aria-current=\"page\">EMBA Finance Prep<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-alpha-channel-opacity uwm-c-hr--thick uwm-u-mb-80\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row uwm-l-row--6\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list uwm-c-link--dark-no-underline uwm-c-list--cleanlist\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/economics-finance-domain\/core-finance\/accounting-and-financial-stateme\/financial-statements-tutorial\/v\/basic-cash-flow-statement\">Basic Cash Flow Statement<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/economics-finance-domain\/core-finance\/stock-and-bonds\/company-statements-capital-struc\/v\/basic-capital-structure-differences\">Capital Structure<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/economics-finance-domain\/core-finance\/interest-tutorial\/cont-comp-int-and-e\/v\/e-through-compound-interest\">Compound Interest<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/economics-finance-domain\/core-finance\/accounting-and-financial-stateme\/depreciation-amortization-tut\/v\/expensing-a-truck-leads-to-inconsistent-performance\">Depreciation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-u-border-desktop--left\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list uwm-c-link--dark-no-underline uwm-c-list--cleanlist\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/economics-finance-domain\/microeconomics\/firm-economic-profit\/economic-profit-tutorial\/v\/depreciation-and-opportunity-cost-of-capital\">Depreciation and Opportunity Cost of Capital<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/economics-finance-domain\/core-finance\/accounting-and-financial-stateme\/financial-statements-tutorial\/v\/balance-sheet-and-income-statement-relationship\">Financial Statements<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/economics-finance-domain\/core-finance\/stock-and-bonds\/company-statements-capital-struc\/v\/gross-and-operating-profit\">Income Statements<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/economics-finance-domain\/core-finance\/stock-and-bonds\/valuation-and-investing\/v\/price-and-market-capitalization\">Market Capitalization<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-u-border-desktop--left\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list uwm-c-link--dark-no-underline uwm-c-list--cleanlist\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/economics-finance-domain\/macroeconomics\/monetary-system-topic\/macroeconomics-interest-rates-and-the-time-value-of-money\/v\/introduction-to-present-value\">Present Value\/Discounted Cash Flow\/IRR<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/economics-finance-domain\/core-finance\/interest-tutorial\/present-value\/v\/time-value-of-money\">Time Value of Money<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/ask\/answers\/063014\/what-formula-calculating-weighted-average-cost-capital-wacc.asp\">Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":699,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"class_list":["post-738","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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