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PROFESSOR: In this video, I would

like to guide you through the schedule of the inaugural run
of our program.
Our first course, foundations of modern finance part 1,
starts on September 30 of this year.
The second course, which is the second part
of the foundations of modern finance course,
will start on January 6, 2021.
These two courses together provide
learners a rigorous introduction to the fundamentals
of modern finance and their obligations for a variety
of business decisions, such as valuations
of assets and securities, investment decisions, risk
management, and corporate financial decisions.
We advise our learners to take both of these courses
and to take them sequentially, as the second course builds
on the first one.
Our third course, financial accounting,
starts on April 7, 2021.
This course provides learners an intensive introduction
to the interpretation of financial information.
Learners will adopt a decision maker perspective of accounting
by emphasizing the relation between accounting data
and the underlying economic events generating them.
Upon completion of this course, learners
will be able to identify the basic structure
of financial reports and the process of recording
transactions.
This will allow you to understand
how investors, creditors, and other users
analyze financial statements to assess corporate performance.
Our fourth course, mathematical methods
for quantitative finance, teaches
learners advanced mathematical topics in financial engineering
and quantitative finance, using linear algebra, optimization,
probability, stochastic processes, and statistics.
Learners will learn applied computational techniques
frequently used in finance.
This course starts on July 7, 2021.
Finally, our fifth course, derivatives markets,
advance modeling and strategies provides
learners the economic intuition and technical skills
necessary to understand how to use derivatives for investment
and risk management purposes and how to hedge and price them.
Upon completion of this course, learners
will have a sophisticated understanding
of tools for valuation and for quantifying hedging
and speculating on the risk.
This course starts on September 29, 2021.
Together, these five courses combine the most important
practical and theoretical concepts in finance
and have the same breadth, depth,
and rigor as the courses we teach here on campus at MIT.
The first round of the program ends on December 2021.
If you are considering using MicroMasters credential
as a pathway to apply and earn your masters degree in finance,
your credential will be ready for the academic year 2022.