Principles of Finance

Aннотация:
Students will learn the fundamentals of financial decision making in the areas of investments and corporate finance. Topical areas include: time value of money, valuation under uncertainty, securities and markets, market efficiency, stock valuation, bond valuation, investment companies, options and futures, capital budgeting, raising capital, and capital structure

I Fundamentals of Valuation
1. Overview of Financial Decision Making
2. Time Value of Money
3. Introduction to Valuation Under Uncertainty
4. Portfolio Theory
5. The Capital Asset Pricing Model
6. Estimating Discount Rates

II Investments
7. Securities
8. Security Markets
9. Market Efficiency
10. Bonds
11. Stocks
12. Investments Companies
13. Options
14. Futures

III Corporate Finance
15. Introduction to Capital Budgeting
16. Making Investment Decisions
17. The Cost of Capital
18. Advanced Topics in Capital Budgeting
19. Introduction to the Firm's Financing Decision
20. Raising Capital
21. Capital Structure

LITERATURE
Ross, Westerfield, Jordon Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 4th Ed.
Sears, Trennepohl Investment Management, Dryden Press