| Course Title: Corporate Finance |
| Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2025 |
| Description: The course covers issues related to core principles of corporate financing and investing decision-making, with the goal of giving students a solid understanding of the main theories underlying a firm's investment decisions using open databases and a case-study approach. Students will learn to apply theories, concepts, and principles of corporate financing and investing decision-making; estimate future cash flows and evaluate the risk and return of an investment project; define the best investment opportunity based on the capital budgeting criteria; interpret the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of a company; identify the operating and financial risk generated by the assets and capital structure; apply CAPM for valuation purposes; gain a working knowledge of core elements of financial statements. |
| Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Steven Schmeiser | sschmeis@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025 | Lecture | Tuesday and Thursday | 09:00AM - 10:15AM | SKNR - Skinner Hall | 202 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: ECON-110. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| NXGBL0001 | NXGBL: Nexus in Global Business | This course is approved for the Global Business Nexus track. |
| NXNPO0001 | NXNPO: Nexus in Nonprofit Organizations | This course is approved for the Nonprofit Organizations Nexus track. |
| IR0005 | INTREL-PE: International Political Economy | This course has been approved to count towards the International Relations major's International Political Economy focus. |
| IR0001 | INTREL: International Relations major | This course has been approved to count towards the International Relations major. |
| EOS0003 | EOS-3: Structures of Inequality | This course has been approved to count towards the EOS minor in the Structures of Inequality subject area |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 28 | Enrollment: 28 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Corporate Finance Author: Berk/DeMarzo, Copyright: 2017 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780134083278 Publisher: Pearson |
Required | 341.60 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |