Fin 325  Finance

Course Overview
This course is designed to introduce the role of and the skills required to be a financial manager. Topics include understanding financial markets, the time value of money, valuation of stocks and bonds, capital budgeting, risk and reward trade-offs, and theories of capital structure.
3 credits.

Course Objectives
At the end of this class, the average student will be able to:
  1. Understand and demonstrate the mechanics of time value of money and apply these to the valuation of many types of real and financial assets.

  2. Demonstrate the basics of capital budgeting using NPV and IRR and conduct comprehensive capital budgeting exercises with raw data.

  3. Forecast and calculate basic free cash flows (total incremental free cash flows).

  4. Explain the relation between risk and return and calculate expected returns using the Capital Asset Pricing Model.

  5. Articulate the principles of informationally efficient capital markets and incorporate these ideas into investment decisions.

Course Prerequisites
Acctg 231, MgtOp 215, Econ 101.



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