FIN/370T - FINANCE FOR BUSINESS
Course Description
This course introduces the student to the essential elements of finance for business. Emphasis is placed on financial management, financial markets, and the tools, techniques, and methodologies used in making financial decisions. Topics include: financial statement analysis, time value of money, financial markets and institutions, risk and return, financial planning, and international finance.
This undergraduate course is 5 weeks.
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Topics and Objectives
Finance and Financial Statement Analysis
- Summarize the role of finance in business, the goal of the firm, and agency theory.
- Evaluate a firm’s historic and projected future performance from its financial ratios.
Time Value of Money
- Identify time value of money (TVM) concepts and their applicability to corporate financial analysis.
- Apply the time value of money inputs (Present Value, Future Value, Rate, Number of Periods and Payment) to business and personal financial applications.
Bond Valuation and Stock Valuation
- Calculate the price and yield of a corporate bond using time value of money (TVM) inputs.
- Determine the value of common stocks using the dividend discount model and the constant growth rate model.
Risk and the Cost of Capital
- Explain the concepts of risk, standard deviation, correlation, diversification and Beta.
- Calculate the weighted average cost of capital.
Project Cash Flows and Capital Budgeting
- Compute a project’s cash flows.
- Calculate decision tools of net present value, payback, internal rate of return, modified internal rate of return, and the profitability index.
Prerequisites
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