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3.00 Credits
This course covers three advanced topics in corporate finance: raising capital, mergers and acquisitions, and real options. Module 1 covers financial markets, instruments, and institutions, with the primary focus being on the capital raising and financing activities of firms at different stages in their life cycle. One of the critical activities a company must do well to succeed is the raising of capital. The when, where, and how of raising capital is the focus of the module. Module 2 uses an analytical framework and real-world applications to introduce the key principles and techniques of successful mergers, acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts. It addresses crucial questions including: Why do mergers that looked great on paper fail in reality? How does one value companies acquiring, or being acquired? What is the best negotiation strategy? What does it take to make the "synergy" come to life? How can a merger be funded in such a way as to retain the merged entity's flexibility? Module 3 covers capital budgeting under uncertainty and flexibility. Each student will be able to develop more advanced capital budgeting skills that will enable you to attack real-world corporate investment decisions in a sophisticated manner.
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3.00 Credits
This course stresses the application of finance theory and methods to real business situations. Students will study problems of financial planning, capital structure, cost of capital, capital investment decisions, and corporate acquisitions.
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3.00 Credits
This course contains elements of a capital markets course, an investments course, and a corporate finance course. The course will focus on the currency markets, international capital markets, and the parity relationships that govern relative prices. Firms face many new risks when they expand their investments, operations, and financing globally. Much of this course will deal with the identification and management of these risks. The prevalent tools for managing these risks are derivative securities; therefore, we will carefully examine derivative securities that can be used to hedge foreign exchange risk and interest rate risk. We will also analyze how expanding the opportunity set of investments globally impacts diversification opportunities and the trade-off between risk and return.
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3.00 Credits
This course is required for all Entrepreneurship majors. The objective of this course is to provide students with a working knowledge of the accounting and financial tools required by entrepreneurs to understand, evaluate, fund, and manage new ventures. The class will examine approaches to financing new and growing ventures that will increase the likelihood of success, while avoiding the pitfalls of those which have failed.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to financial markets, security analysis, and securites differences.
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3.00 Credits
Portfolio Management covers the significant issues in managing client money professionally. This course provides a broad view of the investment process, client needs, institutional knowledge, historical precedents, and current issues in portfolio management.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines fixed-income markets, with an emphasis on the pricing and risk of fixed income securities, derivatives, and portfolios. Bond immunization and trading strategies will be discussed with an in-depth coverage of both Treasury and Corporate Debt Securities. We will explain how Federal Reserve uses monetary policy to influence the term structure of interest rates. This course helps students to establish a solid foundation in understanding fixed-income securities and furthermore to apply such knowledge to real-world investment decisions in bond markets.
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3.00 Credits
The principal objective of this course is to provide a detailed examination of options, futures, forwards, and swaps. By the end of the course students will have a good knowledge of how these contracts work, how they are traded, how they are used, and how they are priced. A major emphasis in the class will be on how derivative instruments are used by financial institutions in light of recent economic events.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to help students develop spreadsheet modeling skills applied to a wide variety of corporate finance and investments topics that cover many of the quantitative models used in finance. This course will emphasize active, hands-on learning rather than passive, lecture style learning.
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3.00 Credits
The focus of this course is the structure of financial markets and the trading of securities, primarily U.S. equities. In previous finance courses you likely assumed away the frictions involved in the trading process. In this course we will study those frictions. We will closely examine market structure, trade pricing rules, order submission strategies, trading costs, block trading, arbitrage, and market efficiency. The type of order submitted and the resolution of that order will depend, in part, on the structure of the market. The market structure is influenced heavily by government regulation and communications technology. Therefore, we will discuss the influence of the market structure on the trading process and the impact of recent SEC rule changes and alternative trading systems on competition in U.S. equity markets. In academia, the study of these issues is called market microstructure.
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