Fundamentals of Corporate Finance syllabus
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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
9 units
1 Introduction to Corporate Finance (4 LHs)
2 Financial Instruments, Markets and Institutions (4 LHs)
3 Financial Statement Analysis (6 LHs)
5 Financial Assets Valuation (8 LHs)
6 Basics of Capital Budgeting (6 LHs)
7 Raising Capital (5 LHs)
8 Capital Structure and Leverage (5 LHs)
9 Working Capital Management (4 LHs)
1. Introduction to Corporate Finance (4 LHs)
- Nature, functions and goals of corporate finance
- Financial-manager responsibilities
- Links with other functional areas
2. Financial Instruments, Markets and Institutions (4 LHs)
- Money/capital instruments, derivatives and mutual funds
- Financial-market types and functions
- Depository and non-depository institutions
3. Financial Statement Analysis (6 LHs)
- Balance sheet, income, cash flow and equity statements
- Liquidity, asset, debt, profit and market ratios
- DuPont analysis and ratio limits
4. Chapter 4: Time Value of Money (6 LHs)
- Cash-flow timelines and single-sum present/future values
- Ordinary annuities, annuities due and perpetuities
- Uneven cash flows and compounding frequencies
- Loan amortization
5. Financial Assets Valuation (8 LHs)
- Bond, common-stock and preferred-stock features
- Bond pricing and yields
- Dividend-discount models
- Preferred-stock valuation
6. Basics of Capital Budgeting (6 LHs)
- Project types and decision process
- Payback, discounted payback, NPV and profitability index
- IRR and modified IRR
7. Raising Capital (5 LHs)
- Long-term debt, preferred and common stock
- Public, rights and private offerings
8. Capital Structure and Leverage (5 LHs)
- Optimal structure and determinants
- Business and financial risk
- Operating, financial and total leverage
9. Working Capital Management (4 LHs)
- Working-capital concepts, types and determinants
- Operating and cash-conversion cycles
- Working-capital requirements