Finance

The universal scaffolding every finance career rests on — the accounting equation, double-entry bookkeeping, debits and credits, T-accounts, the accounting cycle, adjusting entries, cash vs accrual, IFRS vs US GAAP. Taught identically in Harare, Helsinki, and Houston. The prerequisite the rest of the Finance path implicitly assumes.

How to read a 10-K like an analyst — the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement, the notes, and the patterns that separate clean reporting from creative accounting.

The most important and least-taught discipline in finance. From the 5 Cs to the credit cycle to credit ratings to the maths of expected loss; from personal credit to corporate to sovereign to securitisation; from origination to workout. The course every banker, analyst, and CFO wishes they'd had before they needed it.

How companies raise capital. Capital structure theory, equity vs debt, IPOs and follow-ons, bank loans and bonds, mezzanine, convertibles, private equity, venture capital, project finance, trade finance, M&A financing including LBOs, sukuk and Islamic finance, African capital markets, and what happens when a capital structure breaks. The CFO's curriculum.

The deepest market in finance, taught from first principles. Price, yield, duration, convexity, the yield curve, term-structure theory, repo and funding, credit spreads, ratings, government bonds, corporate bonds, securitisation, inflation linkers, callable and convertible structures, eurobonds, sovereign restructurings, and the bond-market plumbing that anchors every other asset price.

The asset class that has compounded wealth more than any other. Ownership rights, share classes, primary and secondary markets, exchanges and ECNs, indexes and the rise of passive, fundamental valuation (multiples, DCF, sum-of-the-parts), short selling, dividends and buybacks, corporate actions, equity derivatives, ETFs, factor investing, and the institutional ecosystem from sell-side research to long-only and hedge funds.

Everything an investment bank actually does, division by division. M&A, ECM, DCM, sales & trading, equity research, asset and wealth management, prime brokerage. The bulge bracket, elite boutiques, middle market. The career ladder, the comp ladder, the hours. How banks make money, where they lose it, and the regulation that has reshaped the industry since 2008.

Build a discounted cash flow valuation that survives a stranger's review. The core mechanics: forecasting free cash flow, working out a defensible WACC, the terminal value question (and why it usually drives the answer), sensitivity tables, and the sanity checks that separate a real DCF from a number you wrote down.

Real estate as an asset class — valuation, financing, underwriting, REITs, development, and the legal and operational layers that make property different from every other investment. Built with African-market grounding (Kenyan title law, NSE-listed REITs, the Nairobi office cycle) on top of universal real-estate fundamentals.

What trading actually is — distinct from investing. Market microstructure, order types, equities, fixed income, FX, derivatives. Algorithmic and high-frequency trading. Risk management for traders. Technical analysis (what works, what doesn't). Behavioural finance from the trading seat. Regulation, market abuse, and the meta-game of building a personal playbook that survives a decade.

ESG, ISSB, climate risk, green bonds, transition planning, and what these mean for valuation. Built for finance professionals who'll be asked about Scope 3 emissions, transition risk, and IFRS S2 disclosures in their first six months on any 2026 finance team — and want to actually know the answer.