Core Course
MB405 – Corporate Finance
Course Unit Code: MB405
Type Of Unit: Core
Level of Course Unit: Second cycle
Year of Study: First/second year
Semester: On demand
Number of ECTS Credits: 6
Class Contact Hours: 28
Mode of Delivery
Face to Face
Prerequisites
MB460 Accounting & Finance is recommended, but not required
Course Objectives
The objective of this course is to introduce the fundamental concepts of the theory and practice of finance paying particular attention to helping managers make the right corporate finance decisions.
Learning Outcomes
- Define the various types of financial instruments.
- Distinguish between the various types of financial institutions.
- Apply the concept of time value of money and use that for capital budgeting.
- Apply the concept of cost of capital to make corporate finance decisions.
- Understand capital structure decisions and payout policies.
- Compute the value of bonds and common stock.
Course Content
1. Overview of Financial Management & the Financial Environment
2. Time Value of Money: computing Future Value, Present Value, DCF, Annuities & Perpetuities, loan amortization using Microsoft Excel financial functions.
3. Capital Budgeting: computing NPV, IRR, Payback, PI to rank investment proposals
4. The Valuation of Bonds and Common Stocks.
5. Capital Budgeting & Cost of Capital. Risk-return relationship and risk measures in Finance. CAPM and WACC concepts.
6. Case Analysis – Practical Workshops – understanding the practical aspects of making long-term decisions (group work)
7. Other (current) topics in Corporate Finance: e.g., working capital management, or dividends and share repurchases, or real options, etc
Course Features
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures; in-class discussion and debates; in-class exercises; problem sets; teaching experiments; team work; video; case studies; teaching experiment
Assessment methods and criteria
10% Participation
30% Case presentation
60% Final exam
Language of Instruction
Not applicable
Work Placement(s)
Not applicable
Readings
Textbooks:
1. Brealey, R., Myers, S. & Franklin A. (2013). Principles of Corporate Finance, (11th ed.). McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
Articles & Journals:
2. Jensen, C. M. and W. H. Meckling (1976), “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure”, Journal of Financial Economics, October, 1976, V. 3, No. 4, pp. 305-360.
3. Myers, S. C. and N. S. Majluf (1984), “Corporate financing and investment decisions when firms have information that investors do not have”, Journal of Financial Economics 13 (2): 187–221.
4. Harvard Business Press Chapters (2003). Time Value of Money: Calculating the Real Value of Your Investment. Harvard Business School
5. Wall Street Journal/ Financial Times or some other financial newspaper.
Online sources:
Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/), which has a particularly good, comprehensive page on interest rates and bonds (http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates- bonds/government-bonds/us/)
CNN Money (http://money.cnn.com/), particularly if you prefer financial news in the video format (http://money.cnn.com/video/)
Financial Mirror ( http://www.financialmirror.com/) Financial Times (http://www.ft.com/home/europe)
Investopedia Dictionary (http://www.investopedia.com/dictionary/).
Yahoo!Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/), which provides a great Stock Research Center (http://biz.yahoo.com/r/)
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