Every decision that a business makes has financial implications, and any decision which affects the finances of a business is a corporate finance decision. This course will cover some of the theory and practice of decision-making within the corporation, as well as assorted other topics.

The objective of the Corporate Finance course is to develop an understanding of the decisions financial managers face. The course presents the advanced concepts and the modern techniques that have been developed in Corporate Finance, by combining theory, empirical evidence, and cases. It explains how financial managers can help maximize their firms’ values by improving decisions in such areas as : 

• Corporate investments and Capital Budgeting,

• Cost of Capital control and calculation,

• Working Capital Management,

• Choice of the Capital Structure,

• Corporate governance,

• Distribution Policy

 

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of this course, students should be able to:

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CLO1: Solve potential conflicts between the investment criteria

CLO2: Evaluate company’s free cash flows and analyze the Major 

            Performance measures

CLO3: Describe the basic tools of working capital management  

CLO4: Describe the sources of capital available to firms and

            estimate the cost for various sources

CLO5: Apply the firm’s valuation techniques and describe the basic

            tools of value based management

CLO6: Explain the fundamentals of firm’s optimal capital structure

CLO7: Describe the fundamentals of dividend distribution policy

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