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Financial Management and Strategy
News
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General Info
Teacher:
Lessons schedule:
- Thursday, 5pm - 7pm (Room, D. M. Ritchie)
- Friday, 9am - 11am (Room, D. M. Ritchie)
- 3rd time slot
Students Office hours:
- Thursday from 1pm to 2pm, at the end of the lecture – same room.
Course Objectives
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:
I) What investment strategies to adopt in the long run;
II) What financial sources to use for sustaining those investment strategies;
III) How manage the cash flow in the short term in order to evade the payment due dates.
Course Contents
— 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
Study material
Course Slides
- slide 1st lesson
Reference books
- Corporate Finance, Ross, Westerfield, Jaffe, Mc Graw Hill, 2009 ISBN 0073382337, for the 9e edition only the chapters from one to seven.
Exams
Exam Dates A.Y. 2015/2016
- Winter session dates here
- Summer session dates here
- Autumn session dates here
- Winter session dates here (2016)
Exam rules:
Exam Results
- N/A