Course Description
Corporate financial decision making by applying the tools, techniques, and theories of finance to actual business decisions.
Athena Title
Applied Corporate Finance
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in FINA 4210E, FINA 4210H
Prerequisite
FINA 4200 or FINA 4200E
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
This course develops a student's ability to make financial decisions. Specifically, a student learns to gather information in light of theory and standard practice, and arrive at value-creating decisions. In addition to identifying value-creating decisions, students must be able to communicate the basis to both sophisticated and unsophisticated audiences.
Topical Outline
This course covers the following topics: ratio analysis, cost of capital, capital budgeting, mergers and acquisitions, dividend policy, short-term and long-term financial policy, and the corporate finance implications of market efficiency.
Syllabus