Class Meeting session and Days

Topics

Projects and other Deadlines

Session 1
January 23

Introduction

Bruner, Chaps 1-3, Gaughan, Chaps, 1 and 2

Session 2
January 30

Strategy

Bruner, Chaps 4, 6 and 7

Session 3
February 6

Valuation

Bruner, Chaps 9, 11; Workbook problems 9 - 4, 6, 7, 8, 9.

Session 4
February 13

Strategic Evaluation of Merger

Presentations

Session 5
February 27

Options in M&A
Read "A Real World Way to Manage Real Options," by Tom Copeland and Peter Tufano, Harvard Business Review, March 2004. Can be found on Blackboard, Course Documents.

Bruner, Chaps 10, 14
"Bridging the Gap Between Buyer and Seller: MW Petroleum Corporation."
Taken from Peter Tufano, “How Financial Engineering Can Advance Corporate Strategy,” Harvard Business Review, Jan.-Feb. 1996, pp. 136-146. (Can be found on Blackboard, or from databases in http://library.pace.edu)
Chapter 14 end-of-chapter Problems 5, 6 and 7 (See Blackboard, Course Documents)

Session 6
March 6

Accounting for Mergers

Bruner, Chap. 16; Guest speaker: Professor Daniel Tinkelman

Session 7
March 13

Midterm

Session 8
March 27

Options in M&A

Bruner, Chaps 10, 14

Session 9
April 3

Deal Design

Bruner, Chaps. 18, 19, and 20

Session 10
April 10

Deal Design

Bruner, Chaps. 21, 22 and 23; Problem 8, Chapter 21 from the end-of-chapter problems in Bruner

Session 11
April 17

Synergies

Bruner, Chapter 11

Session 12
April 24

Deal Design

Presentations

Session 13
May 1

Hostile Takeovers

Bruner, Chap 32, 33

Session 14
May 8

Final Exam