Finance 3403 Principles in Financial Management is an introductory course in finance designed to provide exposure to corporate financial management's theory and practice and demonstrate how financial management techniques are applied in decision-making. Areas covered include financial statement and ratio analysis, the time value of money, risk and return relationships, capital budgeting techniques, estimation of cost of capital, valuation of securities, and sources and uses of financing. This course assumes some familiarity with basic algebra and accounting principles.
In this course, we implement case analysis of problems in business, including cash flow projections, budgeting financial resources, capital structure, mergers, consolidations, liquidations, and risk analysis. Cases represent real situations in which firms’ managers must make specific decisions. Managers must consider various information, often incomplete or contradictory. In each case, you grapple with the decision maker’s dilemmas and formulate the strategy and a recommendation. We discuss the case in class, and you explain and defend your recommendations. We use financial models in Excel to solve the cases.
SPOTs 1.24, 1.00, and 1.37
Finance 3403 Principles in Financial Management is an introductory course in finance designed to provide exposure to corporate financial management's theory and practice and demonstrate how financial management techniques are applied in decision-making. Areas covered include financial statement and ratio analysis, the time value of money, risk and return relationships, capital budgeting techniques, estimation of cost of capital, valuation of securities, and sources and uses of financing. This course assumes some familiarity with basic algebra and accounting principles
SPOT 1.16
In this course, we apply financial modeling in Excel to forecast the company's financial performance using historical performance information and assumptions. We use the financial models for performance analysis and decision-making: firm valuation, mergers and acquisitions, raising capital, and defining optimal payout policy.
SPOT 1.30
The course aims to study how multinational corporations (MNCs) make financial decisions, such as international cash management, hedging cash flows, international capital budgeting, and international financing. The first part of the course introduces the international financial markets in which MNCs operate. The second part focuses on the application of the techniques of basic financial management in a global environment.
Many businesses evolve into multinational corporations (MNCs) to gain from international opportunities. We discuss various financial decisions MNCs make and evaluate the global environment and exposure to risks from doing business in multiple countries.
SPOTs 1.45 and 1.39
Undergraduate: FIN4504 Investment Analysis, FIN3403 Principles of Financial Management
Graduate: FIN6406 Financial Management, FIN6806 Advanced Financial Management, FIN5537 Financial Derivatives and Risk Management