Course Description
Topics in advanced financial management related to agriculture. Advanced financial concepts, including investment analysis, performance of alternative investments, business and financial risk, valuation of assets and farmland investment, and capital budgeting.
Athena Title
Agribusiness Financial Mgmt
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in FINA 7010
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
This course is designed to teach students how to think like a financial manager. Much of the course focuses on how to apply financial theory and tools. Students are presented with a conceptual framework for understanding and addressing problems commonly faced by financial decisionmakers and are provided opportunities to apply these concepts. In particular, students will develop an appreciation for past and present financial conditions in the agricultural sector of the economy; understand asset valuation methods and financial statements currently being used in agriculture; understand the relationships between firm growth and financial leverage, financial liquidity and business and financial risk, understand time value of money concepts and be able to conduct capital investment analysis, learn how the different financial institutions serving agriculture acquire funds for loans and to understand their farm loan programs, lending procedures, loan terms, and the costs paid by borrowers for loan funds.
Topical Outline
Time Value of Money Capital Budgeting Cost of Capital Stock Valuation Bond Valuation Financial Ratio and Profitability Analysis Portfolio Theory, CAPM, WACC Capital Structure Risk Efficiency of Markets, Arbitrage, Law of One Price Agricultural Banking Analysis
Syllabus
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