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ECON0316A-F09

Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance & Accounting

Corporate Finance and Accounting
Finance has become an integral part of economics, as shown by the number of Nobel Prizes awarded in recent years to scholars who have made contributions to the field. This course focuses on the financial side of the modern corporation, for the stakeholders as well as the shareholders. We start with financial accounting as a means of measuring the health of a company and of discerning the transparency and accuracy of its financial statements. (As Enron and other companies showed, it pays to be skeptical.) We then move to strategic planning and the growth of the firm, and to decisions on how to finance that growth as between equity and debt. We conclude with valuation models based on cash flow. At the end we hold a buy-side sell-side competition, in which students work in teams to value real companies and present them to the class as attractive investments. (ECON 0150 and ECON 0155 and ECON 0210) 3 hrs. lect., 1 hr. lab
Course Reference Number (CRN):
90408
Subject Code:
ECON
Course Number:
0316
Section Identifier:
A

Course

ECON 0316

All Sections in Fall 2009

Fall 2009

ECON0316A-F09 Lecture (Pardee)
ECON0316Y-F09 Lab (Pardee)
ECON0316Z-F09 Lab (Pardee)