====== Financial Management and Strategy ======
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===== General Info =====
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**Teacher**: 
  * [[http://docenti.unicam.it/pdett.aspx?ids=N&tv=d&UteId=617&ru=RU|Grid Thoma]] 

**Lessons schedule**:

**Students Office hours**:

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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:
  * What investment strategies to adopt in the long run;
  * What financial sources to use for sustaining those investment strategies;
  * 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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  * 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
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**Reference books**
  * Corporate Finance, Ross, Westerfield, Jaffe, Mc Graw Hill, 2009 ISBN 0073382337, for the 9e edition only the chapters from **one** to **seven**.
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===== Exams =====
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**Exam Dates **


**Exam rules**: 
  * The exam is in written form with possibility of integration with an oral discussion.
** Exam Results **
  * N/A
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