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Class Meeting Week and Days |
Topics
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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)
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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
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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 |
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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
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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
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Week 9
October 29, November 3 |
Estimating Hurdle Rates for Firms (contd.) |
What's
so great about private equity? WSJ article, Nov. 27, 2006
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Week 10
November 5, 10 |
Chapter 23: The Mechanics of Raising Equity Capital |
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Week 11
November 12, 17 |
Chapter 24: Debt Financing |
"Qantas
to Create Freight Company, Review Options," WSJ, May 25, 2007.
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Week 12
November 19, 24 |
Chapters 14, 15: Capital Structure in a Perfect Market; Debt and Taxes (slides) |
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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.
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Final Exam |
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