This diploma is offered to ICAS Members via online learning at a special discounted rate.

During the course, you will build a powerful set of skills which will enable you to assess and advise on investment decisions, project financing, corporate valuation and acquisition/divestment decisions. It will sharpen your critical commercial acumen, shifting value and influence to the top of the business. The course takes an applied approach, drawing on real life case studies.

The next cohort of the Diploma in Corporate Finance commences from 24 March 2025.

To find out more please review the information on this page and contact Chartered Accountants Ireland Member Experience Team.

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"I found the Diploma in Corporate Finance programme excellent in all aspects, the course and content were extremely well considered and structured, and offered an excellent insight into the world of Corporate Finance for accountants from all backgrounds. The individual lecturers were highly engaging and used real world experience to illustrate all learning areas to excellent effect."

Ricardo Laverty, Finance Director, Grace Cole Ltd

Course Overview

In Corporate Finance, what separates success and failure is sharp judgment, the ability to see an opportunity, to minimise risk and make timely and decisive decisions.

Taking this diploma will help you develop technical skills, knowledge and best practice technique in financial analysis, investment appraisal, financing decisions, corporate valuation M & A transactions and maximising shareholder value.

The Diploma in Corporate Finance will give you:

  • A well-grounded foundation in the theory of corporate finance.
  • Tools, checklists and spreadsheet models that can be used in practice.
  • Case studies.

"I found this course very stimulating – it didn’t feel like hard work at all! The material provided combined theory and practice well and the assignments were very interesting. I completed it by distanced learning and did not feel disadvantaged at all."

David Codd, Finance Director, Booker Plc