Course Description
The course is designed with the objective of applying the contemporary ideas and tools of corporate finance to real-world corporate decisions. We will develop and extend standard tools and techniques of financial analysis, valuation, and financial modeling, and apply these methods to a wide range of cases.
Course Objectives
- Apply the framework and concepts from corporate finance to real world decisions.
- Develop new concepts of corporate finance, including cash and working capital management, asymmetric information and agency problems, capital budgeting and real options.
- Expand knowledge of valuation and capital structure concepts from prior finance courses.
- Describe institutional details of security issuance and repurchase, private equity and leveraged buyouts, and bankruptcy procedures.
- Understand the centrality of valuation as an organizing principle around which decision-making revolves.
- Categorize, select, and analyze relevant information to solve a problem.
- Build spreadsheet modeling skills to develop detailed financial models to guide strategic decision-making
Course ID: FIN 621
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 3 | - | - |
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