FIN 605 - Corporate Financial Management

Units: 3
Theory and practice of corporate financial management. Topics include corporate governance, corporate performance analysis, capital investment decisions, firm valuation, cost of capital, short-term financing, long-term financing, capital structures, and dividend policies. Formerly BUS 605.

Prerequisites: ACCT 604.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Explain the fundamental concepts and theories in corporate finance.
Analyze corporate performance with financial analysis.
Compute firm value using different valuation methods.
Explain the concepts of risk and return trade-off in different assets and construct investment strategies in the financial markets.
Compute the appropriate discount rate for assets and cost of capital for a firm.
Compute capital budgeting for capital investment decisions.
Analyze how corporate financial decisions (such as short-term and long-term financing policies, capital structure, dividend policies, corporate control and governance, etc.) influence firm value.
Integrate analysis and valuation with applications of different corporate financial management problems.