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MBA 632: Managerial Finance
Course Outline and TimeTable - Spring 2009

 
   
 

Class Meeting Days

Topics

Projects and other Deadlines
Problem Assignments as given on Assignments Page

Class 1
January 26

1. Financial Markets and Institutions (Slides)

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)


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)

Class 6
March 9

Class cancelled (Snow)

 

Class 7
March 23

Midterm

Class 8
March 30

8. Investment Decision Rules (Chap 6)
9. Fundamentals of Capital Budgeting (Chap 7) (Slides)

 

Class 9
April 6

10. Valuing Bonds (Chap 8) (Slides)

 

Class 10
April 13

11. Valuing Stocks (Chap 9) (Slides)


Class 11
April 20

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

Class 12
April 27
13. Capital Structure in a Perfect Market (Chap 14)
14. Debt and Taxes (Chap 15) (Slides)
 
Class 13
May 4
15. Financial Distress, Managerial Incentives, and Information (Chap 16) (Slides)  
Class 14
May 11?
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