Financial Analysis and Decision Making

Catalog description

The principal objective of this course is to provide executive students with a firm foundation in the main types of financial decisions that investors and corporations make on a regular basis. It introduces students to the key types of financial securities, their risk and return characteristics, and their respective valuation models. Students explore how investors evaluate securities for prospective investments; how corporate managers utilize and view debt and equity as sources of financing; and how they analyze and make capital investment decisions. They then extend valuation techniques to the corporate level and concepts and techniques of longterm corporate planning. Students turn to an analysis of international financial management, in which they view the firm in a global context and develop an understanding of the implications of international competition, sourcing, financing, and regulatory issues facing corporations. The course concludes with an introduction and analysis of concepts of enterprise risk management.