Class Meeting Days |
Topics
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Projects
and other Deadlines
Problem Assignments as given on
Assignments Page |
Class 1
January 26 |
1. Financial Markets and Institutions (Slides)
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Text for Financial Markets and Institutions available on Blackboard |
Class 2
February 2 |
2. The Corporation (Chap 1) / 3. Corporate Governance
(Slides) |
Text for Corporate Governance available on Blackboard.
Choose
a specific financial intermediary and write two paragraphs explaining
what financial function it performs and how. |
Class 3
February 9 |
4. Introduction to Financial Statement Analysis (Chap 2)(Slides)
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Class 4
February 23 |
5. Arbitrage and Financial Decision Making (Chap 3) (Slides)
6. The Time Value of Money (Chap 4)(Slides) |
Prepare Chapter 3 from the text and read the slides. Then go to the 10K and use the information in the Income Statement and the Balance Sheet to compute all the ratios mentioned in the slides. |
Class 5
March 2 |
7. Interest Rates (Chap 5) (Slides)
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Class 6
March 9 |
Class cancelled (Snow)
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Class 7
March 23 |
Midterm
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Class 8
March 30 |
8. Investment Decision Rules (Chap 6)
9. Fundamentals of Capital Budgeting (Chap 7) (Slides) |
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Class 9
April 6 |
10. Valuing Bonds (Chap 8) (Slides) |
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Class 10
April 13 |
11. Valuing Stocks (Chap 9)
(Slides) |
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Class 11
April 20 |
12. Capital Markets and the Pricing of Risk (Chap 10) (Slides)
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Class 12
April 27 |
13. Capital Structure in a Perfect Market (Chap 14)
14. Debt and Taxes (Chap 15) (Slides)
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Class 13
May 4 |
15. Financial Distress, Managerial Incentives, and Information (Chap 16) (Slides) |
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Class 14
May 11? |
Final Exam |
Check
FAQs for final exam detail |