Financial Management and Strategy

Teacher:

• Grid Thoma

Lessons schedule:

Students Office hours:

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.

• 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

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.

Exam Dates

Exam rules:

• The exam is in written form with possibility of integration with an oral discussion.

Exam Results

• N/A