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Class Meeting Week and Days |
Topics
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Projects
and other Deadlines |
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Week 1
Sept 13 |
Chap.
2: Firm Objectives (Slides)
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Week 2
Sept 20 |
Chap.
4: Understanding Financial Statements (Slides)
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Read
"The ones that get away" from the Media Page (Firm Objectives
section), answer the question, and submit it before class.
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Week 3
Sept 27 |
Chap.
5: Value and Price: An Introduction (Slides) |
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| October 4 |
Rosh haShanah |
Assignment 2 due by email before midnight;
No classes
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Week 4
October 11 |
Chapter
3; Chap. 6: Equity Risk and Expected Return (Slides;
Excel file on diversification
)
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Send
in a draft of Assignment 1
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Week 5
Oct 18 |
No lecture; free time to prepare Assignment 1 and study for
Exam 1 |
Groups
should come in and talk to me about Assignment 1
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Week 6
Oct 25 |
Exam 1 (based on chapters 2, 3, 4 and
5)
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Assignment 1 due by email
before midnight;
Exam 1: part 1 based on Objective
Function of the Firm and Financial
Statement Analysis (Chapters 2, 4); part 2 based on Present
Value (Chapters 3, 5) |
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Week 7
November 1 |
Chapter 7: Estimating
Hurdle Rates for Firms (Using the CAPM; Slides)
(Excel file on Beta Computation) |
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Week 8
November 8 |
Chapter
7 (contd.) |
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Week 9
Nov
15 |
Exam
2
Chapter 16: An Overview of Financing Choices |
Assignment
3 due by email before midnight;
Exam 2 (based on Chapters 6 and 7);
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Week 10
Nov 22 |
Chapter
17: The section on Financing Choices and a Firm's Life Cycle
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Week 11
Nov 29 |
Chapter
18: The Financing Mix: Tradeoffs and Theory (slides)
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Week 12
December 6 |
Chapter
18: The Financing Mix: Tradeoffs and Theory (slides)
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Week 13
December 13
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Chapter
21: Dividend Policy
(slides)
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Assignment
4 due by email before midnight |
Week 14
December 20 |
Exam 3 |
Exam 3 (Chapters 16, 17, 18 and 21) based
on Capital
Structure. |
