Financial Analysis

Aннотация:
This course is intended to provide a market-oriented framework for analyzing the major types of financial decisions made by corporations. Lectures and readings will proved an introduction to present value techniques, capital budgeting principles and problems, asset valuation, the operation and efficiency of financial markets, the financial decisions of firms and derivatives

Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: The Objective Function for Corporations
Section 3: Calculating Present Values
Section 4: The Valuation of Bonds and Stocks
Section 5: A Comparison of Investment Criteria
Section 6: Practical Aspects of the NPV Rule
Section 7: Measuring Risk
Statistics Review
A Theory of Assets Pricing: Introduction
Mean-Standart Deviation Analysis
Diversification and Beta
Section 8: The Capital Asset Pricing Model
Section 9: Capital Budgeting and the CAPM
Section 10: Market Efficiency
Section 11: Issuing Securities
Section 12: Payout Policy
Section 13: Capital Structure
Section 14: Investment and Financing Decisions
Section 15: Valuation
Section 16: Risk Management
Section 17: Pricing Derivatives