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===== News =====
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  * <wrap em>**October 22nd, 2014**</wrap>: the course web site is now on-line
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===== General Info =====
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**Teacher**: 
  * [[http://www.gridthoma.info/|Grid Thoma]] 

**Lessons schedule**:
  * 1st time slot
  * 2nd time slot
  * 3rd time slot

**Students reception hours**:
  * Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
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===== Course Objectives =====

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This course analyzes the different dimensions of the financial structure of firms and its relation to the business strategy, constituted for example by the lunch an innovative product, entry in a new market, R&D projects, start-ups, etc. The goals of the course are the following:

[a]  What investment strategies to adopt in the long run;

[b]  What financial sources to use for sustaining those investment strategies;

[c]  How manage the cash flow in the short term in order to evade the payment due dates.

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===== Course Contents =====

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Sequence of different topics of the course:

[+] Introduction to corporate finance and accounting;

[+] Financial statements and cash flow;

[+] Financial statements analysis and financial models;

[+] Discounted cash flow valuation;

[+] Net present value and other investment rules;

[+] Making capital investment decisions;

[+] Capital structure: risk analysis and real options.

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===== Study material =====
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**Course Slides**
  * slide 1st lesson
  * [to be updated during the completion of the course]

**Reference books**

[+] Corporate Finance, Ross, Westerfield, Jaffe, Mc Graw Hill, 2009 ISBN 0073382337,  for the 9e edition only the following chapters: 1-7. This edition is available at UniCam's library.

[+] Case study material will be available during the course.

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===== Exams =====
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**Exam Dates A.Y. 2014/2015**
  * Winter session dates here 
  * Summer session dates here
  * Autumn session dates here
  * Winter session dates here (2016)
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**Exam rules**: 
The exam is in written form with possibility of integration with an oral discussion.

** Exam Results **
  * N/A
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