Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance is a business school course that many undergraduate econ students take with Michael Adler. The course makes extensive use of case studies.

Syllabus

• Overview of financial statements
• Financial ratios
• Forecasting the financial statements
• Overview of financial markets and instruments
• Calculating funding needs
• Calculating the optimal capital structure
• Discounting: TVM, PV and IRR
• Bond valuation
• Overview of firm valuation
• Valuation using multiples
• Discounted cash flow
• Risk and return
• Calculating WACC (including unlevering and relevering β)
• Valuation with βs from comparable firms