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1.00 CreditDescription:
This course counts toward the following majors: Analytical Finance, Finance.
This course uses case studies to enhance the student's understanding of managerial financial decision making, specifically investment and financing decisions. Topics include short- and long-term financing, capital structure and dividend decisions, cost of capital, capital budgeting, firm valuation, financial and operational restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions. The course emphasizes the basic principles of corporate finance and is sufficiently general so as to be of interest to all students. The course provides students with the opportunity to apply the concepts and theories developed in other finance courses. At its most fundamental level, the course attempts to improve problem-solving skills: problem definition, gathering and organizing the relevant information, developing feasible alternative courses of action, evaluating alternative choices, and recommending and defending the best course of action.
Prerequisites:
All Students: ( FINC-430-0 AND FINC-441-0 ) OR FINC-440-0
Corequisites:
None
We are currently in the Fall 2009 quarter.
Academic Year: 2009-2010 Quarter: Fall 2009 Sec ID Instructor Day Time Location 61 Raviv TF 08:30 - 10:00 Jacobs (G03) 62 Raviv TF 10:30 - 12:00 Jacobs (G03) 71 Raviv M 18:00 - 21:00 Wieboldt (TBD)
Academic Year: 2009-2010 Quarter: Winter 2010 Sec ID Instructor Day Time Location 61 Fishman MR 08:30 - 10:00 Jacobs (TBD) 62 Fishman MR 10:30 - 12:00 Jacobs (TBD) 63 Thompson TF 13:30 - 15:00 Jacobs (TBD) 64 Thompson TF 15:30 - 17:00 Jacobs (TBD) 71 Fishman T 18:00 - 21:00 Wieboldt (TBD) 76 Thompson S 09:00 - 12:00 Wieboldt (TBD)
Academic Year: 2009-2010 Quarter: Spring 2010 Sec ID Instructor Day Time Location 61 Thompson MR 15:30 - 17:00 Jacobs (TBD) 62 Thompson TF 10:30 - 12:00 Jacobs (TBD) 63 Tarhan TF 13:30 - 15:00 Jacobs (TBD) 71 Tarhan T 18:00 - 21:00 Wieboldt (TBD)
Academic Year: 2009-2010 Quarter: Summer 2010 This course has not yet been scheduled.
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