The course is intended for people who would like a deeper understanding of the American housing finance system. The focus will be on providing necessary background knowledge rather than on evaluating specific policy proposals.  Near the end of the course, participants will be encouraged to bring up policy issues and to discuss them in light of the information presented.

"Future Ready: Financial Literacy" is an educational resource that introduces the importance of financial literacy and provides an overview of key concepts such as savings accounts, types of interest, and financial planning. It aims to equip learners with the knowledge and skills needed to make informed financial decisions, manage money effectively, and build a secure financial future.

The purpose of this class is to advance your understanding of how to use financial information to value and analyze firms. We will apply your economics/accounting/finance skills to problems from today's business news to help us understand what is contained in financial reports, why firms report certain information, and how to be a sophisticated user of this information.

This course will examine literature and practice regarding community-owned enterprise as an alternative means of increasing community participation and development. The use of cooperatives, credit unions, land trusts, and limited stock ownership enterprises for increasing community participation and empowerment will be examined.

HMP 607 is the third in a three-course sequence intended to impart to generalist administrators the knowledge of finance and accounting necessary to manage health care organizations. The first course, HMP 608, covers financial accounting. The second course, HMP 606, focuses on managerial accounting topics. This third course concentrates on corporate finance topics. It aims to impart an understanding of how finance theory and practice can inform the decision-making of the health care firm. As such, HMP 607 is most appropriately considered a corporate finance course, as opposed to a course in financial markets. In addition, it will integrate corporate finance and accounting theories, institutional knowledge of health care finance, and applications to specific problems.

This lesson will teach you the difference between different investments, what they are and the risk involved with each.

This 9-minute video lesson explains the difference between a bond and a stock. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 18 of 184]

This 9-minute video lesson explains what it means to buy a bond. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 54 of 184]

This 10-minute video lesson considers a choice between money now and money later. It is the first in a series of 4 videoson Present Value. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 3 of 184]

This 10-minute video lesson discusses more choices as to when you get your money. It is the 2nd of a 4-part series on Present Value.[Core Finance playlist: Lesson 4 of 184]

This 14-minute video lesson explains why bond prices move inversely to changes in interest rate. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 55 of 184]

This 9-minute video lesson looks at how lower lending standards led to housing price inflation and helped created the housing price conundrum. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 14 of 184]

This 7-minute video lesson considers the virtuous circle of housing price appreciation making defaults go down making lending lax making housing appreciate even more. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 16 of 184]

This 9-minute video lesson looks at why housing prices went up so much from 2000-2006 even though classical supply/demand would not have called for it. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 13 of 184]

This 10-minute video lesson discusses why lending standards become more and more lax from 2000 to 2006. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 15 of 184]

This 11-minute video lesson explains how bubbles destroy wealth. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 42 of 184]

This 11-minute video lesson continues to look at how bubbles destroy wealth. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 43 of 184]

This 14-minute video lesson discusses what it means to buy a company's stock. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 17 of 184]

This six-week summer course teaches basic concepts of corporate financial accounting and reporting. This information is widely used in making investment decisions, corporate and managerial performance assessment, and valuation of firms. Students perform economics-based analysis of accounting information from the viewpoint of the users of accounting information (especially senior managers) rather than the preparer (the accountant). This course is restricted to MIT Sloan Fellows in Innovation and Global Leadership.

Studies basic concepts of financial and managerial accounting. Viewpoint is that of the users of accounting information (especially managers) rather than the preparer (the accountant).