Basic Finance

Aннотация:
Basic Finance introduces students to the vocabulary and concepts of finance. This course examines financial decision making and provides specific tools for analyzing and interpreting financial data. The goal of the course is to introduce and develop key finance tools/concepts.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Basic Finance introduces students to the vocabulary and concepts of finance. This course examines financial decision making and provides specific tools for analyzing and interpreting financial data. The goal of the course is to introduce and develop key finance tools/concepts such as:
(1) interpretation of financial statements
(2) time value of money
(3) risk and return
(4) capital budgeting
(5) cost of capital
(6) working capital management
(7) international finance
so that they can be used by students in future courses and/or future financial decisions. In addition, the course seeks to show that these key concepts are the basis for many related finance topics.

TEXTS:
(1)Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (3rd ed.), by R. Brealey, S. Myers, and A. Marcus, McGraw-Hill Inc., 2001.
(2)Coursepacket of Class Notes , available at the BC Bookstore

PREREQUISITE: Financial Accounting (MA021)