Financial Management

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• To state the major stakeholders in the modern corporation, describe how the interests of the stockholders in a firm may be in conflict with other stakeholders, and the role of ethics;
• To understand the economic context and environment where decisions are made by business leadership and management;
• To further students’ understand and the interpretation of financial statements;
• To solve time value of money problems (TVM) and be ready to apply TVM techniques in the work environment including to bond and stock valuation;
• To identify the risk and return characteristics of financial securities, compare these characteristics and perform data analysis and interpretation;
• To recognize financial options and apply option principles to other firm settings;
• To apply risk and return estimation methodologies, including to the valuation of equity and debt claims and the firm’s cost of capital;
• To identify relevant incremental cash flows, and apply capital budgeting techniques to these cash flows;
• To contrast working capital policies in terms of risk and profitability;
• To evaluate financing alternatives and the financial structure of the firm.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Homework	25%
Case	15%
Discussion	20%
Exam	40%

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:

Corporate Finance -- MyLab Finance with Pearson eText Access Code Electronic Product by Jonathan Berk; Peter DeMarzo - 6TH 24