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
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Published on: 10 February 2020
Last update on: 22 September 2020
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