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FIN 320: Advanced Financial Analysis
Course Outline and TimeTable

 
 

Fall 2008

 
 

Class Meeting Week and Days

Topics

Projects and other Deadlines

Week 1
September 3, 8

Chapter 29: Corporate Governance (Slides)

If the Pay Fix Is in, Good Luck Finding It
September 7, 2008, New York Times

Week 2
September 10, 15

Chap. 2: Financial Statement Analysis (Slides)

Look at material from Healy and Palepu (Blackboard)

Week 3
September 17, 22

Chapter 4: The Time Value of Money (Slides for Basic Valuation) (Slides for Advanced Valuation)

Chapter 4: Problems 13, 23, 32, 38, 39

Week 4
September 24, 29

Chapter 7: Fundamentals of Capital Budgeting (sections 7.1 and 7.2)

Chapter 7: Problems 6, 10, 11

Week 5
October 1 (no class), October 6

Chapters 9 and 10: Valuing Stocks; Capital Markets and the Pricing of Risk (Slides; Excel file on diversification )
Slides on Expected Return/Variance and Portfolios

Project on Capital Governance due by email by midnight October 1

Week 6
October 8, 13

Chapter 12: The Capital Asset Pricing Model

 

Week 7
October 15, October 20

Oct 15: Midterm based on Chapters 29, 2, 4, 7, 9 and 10
Oct. 20: Estimating Hurdle Rates for Firms

Midterm based on Chapters 29, 2, 4, 7, 9 and 10

Week 8
October 22, October 27

Oct. 22: Time to finish Home Depot Valuation Project
Oct. 27: Estimating Hurdle Rates for Firms (contd.) (Slides; Excel file on Beta Computation)

Home Depot Valuation Project due by midnight Oct. 25
Latest Trend in Big Buyouts: Blend of Public, Private Traits, Wall Street Journal, May 22, 2007; Page C1

Week 9
October 29, November 3

Estimating Hurdle Rates for Firms (contd.) 

What's so great about private equity? WSJ article, Nov. 27, 2006

Week 10
November 5, 10

Chapter 23: The Mechanics of Raising Equity Capital

Week 11
November 12, 17

Chapter 24: Debt Financing

"Qantas to Create Freight Company, Review Options," WSJ, May 25, 2007.

Week 12
November 19, 24

Chapters 14, 15: Capital Structure in a Perfect Market; Debt and Taxes (slides)

Week 13
November 26, December 1

Chapter 16: Financial Distress, Managerial Incentives, and Information (slides)

Capital Structure Assignment due by email before midnight of December 1

Week 14
December 3, 8

Chapter 17: Payout Policy

Exam (Chapters 16, 17, 18 and 21) based on Capital Structure and Dividend Policy.

 

Final Exam

 


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