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MBA 808: Creating Value Through Finance
Course Outline and TimeTable - Summer 1, 2021

 
   
 

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Topics

Due Dates
MFL Homework is optional. However, it is recommended that you do them, following the schedule noted, since the MFL Quizzes which must be turned in are based on the MFL Homework.
Details on assignments can be found in each module.

June 1 Module 1 Financial Markets and Institutions (Slides) (Parts 1 and 2, Video available on BrightSpace)
The text for Financial Markets and Institutions is available on BrightSpace.
Term Begins

June 4

Module 2
Text for Corporate Governance (Chapter 29) available on Classes

Module 2: Corporate Governance
The Corporation (Chap 1) /Corporate Governance (Chap 29) (Slides) (Video available on BrightSpace)

Assessment 1: What’s a financial system
Assessment 2: Financial Institutions
Assessment 3: Functions of the Financial System
Discussion Board period for The Financial System begins; last date for posting is June 11

June 8

Module 3

Module 3: Introduction to Financial Statement Analysis (Chap 2) (Slides) (Video available on BrightSpace)

Assessment 4: Corporate Governance

June 11

Module 4

Module 4: Arbitrage and Financial Decision Making (Chap 3) (Slides) (Video Available on classes.pace.edu; additional videos showing problem solutions also available on BrightSpace)

MFL Homework (Chap 2)
MFL Quiz Due (Chap 2)
Assessment 5: Financial Statements and Fundamental Analysis
Discussion Board period for Fundamental Analysis begins; last date for posting is June 18

June 15

Module 5

Module 5: The Time Value of Money (Chap 4) (Slides) (Videos available on BrightSpace showing problem solutions)

MFL Homework (Chap 3)
MFL Quiz Due (Chap 3)

June 18

Module 6

Module 6: Investment Decision Rules (Chap 7) (Slides) (Video available on BrightSpace)

MFL Homework (Chap 4)
MFL Quiz Due (Chap 4)

June 19     Assessment 6: Arbitrage

June 22

Module 7

Module 7: Capital Markets and the Pricing of Risk (Chap 10) (Slides) (Video available on BrightSpace)

MFL Homework (Chap 7)
MFL Quiz Due (Chap 7)

June 25

Module 8

Module 8: Fundamentals of Capital Budgeting (Chap 8) (Slides)
Test 1 (MFL and BrightSpace)

MFL Homework (Chap 10)
MFL Quiz Due (Chap 10)
Assessment 7: Capital markets
Discussion Board period for Capital Markets begins; last date for posting is July 2
Start work on Excelrite Capital Budgeting Case

June 26

 

Test 1 (MFL and BrightSpace)

Test can be taken any time on June 25 or June 26
Look at Course Requirements for more information about Test 1

June 29

Module 9

Module 9: Valuing Stocks (Chap 9) (Slides) (Video Available on BrightSpace)

MFL Homework (Chap 8)
MFL Quiz Due (Chap 8)
Assessment 8: Discount Rates

July 2

Module 10

Module 10: Capital Structure
Chap 14: Capital Structure in a Perfect Market (Slides) (Video available on BrightSpace)
Capital Structure, Financial Distress and Agency Costs (Slides)

MFL Homework (Chap 9)
MFL Quiz Due (Chap 9)
Assessment 9: Efficient Markets Hypothesis
Discussion Board period for Capital Structure begins; last date for posting is July 9

July 6

Module 11

Module 11: Interest Rates (Chap 5) (Slides)

MFL Homework (Chap 14)
MFL Quiz Due (Chap 14)
Assessment 10: Capital Structure -- Modigliani-Miller
Assessment 11: Capital Structure -- Taxes, Incentives and Financial Distress

July 9

Module 12

Module 12: Valuing Bonds (Chap 6) (Slides) (Video available on BrightSpace)

MFL Homework (Chap 5)
MFL Quiz Due (Chap 5)
Excelrite Capital Budgeting Case due July 9

July 11     Assessment 12: Bonds

July 12

 

Test 2 (MFL and BrightSpace)

MFL Homework (Chap 6)
MFL Quiz Due (Chap 6)

July 13

 

Test 2

Test 2 can be take any time on July 12th or July 13th.
Look at Course Requirements for more information about Test 2

 

 


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