Business Finance II

Course Description

Theory and practical application of capital budgeting, cost of capital and capital structure analysis, working capital management, and financial analysis and planning. Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in ACC 201 or ACC 218; ECO 250; and a grade of C or better in FIN 315

Syllabus

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

  • Demonstrate an advanced understanding of time value of money.

  • Demonstrate an understanding of financial accounting as it applies to the creation of financial statements.

  • Discuss both the importance and process of working capital management.

  • Create forward-looking financial statements and use them to both analyze the impact of changes in operations and estimate future external financing needs.

  • Create cash budgets and use them to predict periodic shortfalls in cash.

  • Make capital budgeting decisions based on calculations of the cost of capital and estimates of the initial investment and all future cash flows generated by the project.

  • Contribute toward the Bryan School’s commitment to information technology by using Excel-based assignments.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure

Percentage/Points

Chapter Review Questions

15%

Homework Problems

15%

AI Assignment

10%

Midterm and Comprehensive Exams

60%

Grading Scale

Percentage

Letter Grade

92% and above

A

90 – 91.99%

A-

88 – 89.99%

B+

82 -87.99%

B

80 – 81.99%

B-

78 – 79.99%

C+

72 – 77.99%

C

70 – 71.99%

C-

68 – 69.99%

D+

62 - 67.99%

D

60 – 61.99%

D-

< 60%

F

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance/participation is not a graded component included in the student's final grade for this course.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

Douglas R. Emery, John D. Finnerty, and John D. Stowe. Corporate Financial Management, 5th Edition. Morristown NJ: Wohl Publishing, 2018. (9781935938545).

This course engages diverse scholarly perspectives to develop critical thinking, analysis, and debate, and inclusion of a reading does not imply endorsement.

Scholarly Perspectives

This course engages diverse scholarly perspectives to develop critical thinking, analysis, and debate and inclusion of a reading does not imply endorsement.