MBA 648: Managerial Finance
Course Outline and TimeTable - Fall 2010

Class Meeting Days

Topics

Projects and other Deadlines
Problem Assignments as given on Assignments Page -- not to be handed in
MFL refers to MyFinanceLab Assignment

Class 1
September 14

Financial Markets and Institutions (Slides)

Text for Financial Markets and Institutions available on Blackboard. Look at the assignment for that chapter; the assignment is due at the beginning of class on September 21

Class 2
September 21

The Corporation (Chap 1) /Corporate Governance (Chap 29)
(Slides)

Text for Corporate Governance available on Blackboard.

Class 3
September 28

Introduction to Financial Statement Analysis (Chap 2)(Slides)

MFL Due (Chap1)

Class 4
October 5

Arbitrage and Financial Decision Making  (Chap 3) (Slides)
The Time Value of Money (Chap 4) (Slides)

MFL Due (Chap 2)

Class 5
October 12

Practice Problems

Prepare WSJ article " Is It Time to Scrap the Fusty Old P/E Ratio?" for class discussion (go to Media Articles link from Class webpage. MFL Due on March 4th (Chap 3)

Class 6
October 19

Interest Rates (Chap 5) (Slides)

MFL Due (Chap 4)

Class 7
October 26

Midterm

MFL Due (Chap 5)

Class 8
November 2

Valuing Bonds (Chap 8) (Slides)

Class 9
November 9

Investment Decision Rules (Chap 6) (Slides; Video)
Fundamentals of Capital Budgeting (Chap 7) (Slides)

MFL Due (Chap 8)

Class 10
November 16

Valuing Stocks (Chap 9) (Slides)

MFL Due (Chap 6)

MFL Due (Chap 7)

Class 11
November 23

Capital Markets and the Pricing of Risk (Chap 10) (Slides)

MFL Due (Chap 9)

Review
Chap 14: Capital Structure in a Perfect Market (Slides)