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MFIN 5500: Corporate Finance (3 cr.)

Corporate finance focuses on the financial

decision making process that is designed to

maximize shareholder wealth. It provides a

framework for making a wide variety of

decisions, such as choosing the optimal

combination of debt and equity to finance a

corporation's operations, identifying the most

profitable projects to pursue, determining the

most appropriate distribution of dividends to

stockholders. The course introduces the

concept of the time value of money, and

examines techniques applicable to the pricing

of fixed-income assets and capital budgeting,

assessing the respective advantages and

disadvantages of each approach. The statistical

properties of risk and return for financial

assets, modern portfolio theory, the Capital

Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), and several equity

pricing models, such as the dividend discount

model and the Gordon growth model are analyzed.

Financial statements analysis, techniques for

determining the optimal capital structure of a

corporation including an analysis of the

Miller-Modigliani Theorem, and an overview of

dividend policies are also covered. Classroom

Instruction. Equivalent to MFIN.5100.

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