Cor­por­ate Fin­ance

Course content

Course content, structure and pedagogical approach

This course introduces participants to the fundamentals of Corporate Finance. The topics covered are critical for understanding and analyzing the many financial issues that face modern firms. The topics include, how to evaluate investment decisions, how to balance risk versus return, how to use different sources of financing, how to obtain the cost of capital, etc. The course also covers corporate governance, payout practices, international corporate finance, risk management, mergers and acquisition, etc. In covering the material the course combines popular applied financial methodologies with practical examples and case studies. The course will primarily take a financial management perspective and concentrate on the application of concepts.

Description of the teaching methods
The course is structured into sessions, where each session is focuses on a specific topic. Diverse teaching methods include lectures, cases, readings and discussions. The class meetings are interactive and require ongoing engagement of the students. This includes gaining hands-on experience by implementing concepts (e.g. in Excel), discussing real-life cases to internalize the concepts presented in the course, presenting groupwork on particular corporate finance topics and providing concrete financial recommendations.