Modern Security Analysis

Catalog description

The purpose of the course is to provide the student with the needed knowledge and analytical tools to understand and learn the discipline of modern security analysis. The course will focus on business valuation, advanced corporate finance and security analysis with an emphasis on analyzing public companies from the bottom up (as stand-alone, separate and distinct from shareholders, managements, creditors, regulators). The course is centered on the valuation of businesses and how corporate values are reflected or not reflected in public security prices and why. Secondary topics discussed include elemetns of corporate law, securities law, credit analysis, and financial accounting as related to security analysis.