This course is designed to extend students’ knowledge of corporate financial management. Building on the foundations from FINA 315, the course emphasizes how firms make investment, financing, and payout decisions, as well as topics such as capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, short-term financial planning, leasing, and mergers & acquisitions.
FINA 470 - Corporate Finance, as instructor, Fall 2025
This course is designed to apply advanced concepts of corporate financial management to real-world business decisions. Building on prior finance courses, students will use case studies to analyze financial performance, forecasting, valuation, capital structure, financing choices, and mergers & acquisitions. Emphasis is placed on integrating theory with practice to develop strategic decision-making skills in today’s global business environment.
FINAN 4030 - Corporate Finance, as instructor, Summer 2023 (5.72/6)
This course is designed to familiarize students with corporate and personal financial management strategies. This course will also help you understand how a firm makes an investment, financing, and payout decisions.
Here are the syllabus, lecture notes, evaluation, and reflections (original version here).
FINAN 4030 - Corporate Finance, as instructor, Spring 2023 (5.47/6)
Here are the syllabus, lecture notes, evaluation, and reflections (original version here).
FINAN 6360 - Investment and Portfolio Management, as teaching assistant (Michael Cooper as instructor), Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
This course is designed for postgraduate students. It covers portfolio investment techniques, a range of portfolio formation methods, and investment strategies. Topics include stock picking skills of security analysts, brokerage houses, mutual fund managers, hedge fund managers, and other professional money managers. Topics also include survivorship bias, risk, data snooping, and trading costs.
Here is the syllabus of the class (Fall 2022).
BUS 106 - Introduction to Financial Management, Summer 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020
Evaluation - 6.3/7
BUS 104 - Decision Analysis and Management Science, Fall 2019
Evaluation - 6.6/7