Corporate Finance

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Corporate finance is mainly concerned with a firm's capital generation, capital investments, and cash flow monitoring. This course, designed as the first corporate finance course for Finance majors, discusses the capital structure of corporations, managers' actions to increase firm value, and the tools and analysis used to allocate financial resources. In addition, it covers financial statement analysis, cost of capital, cash flow estimation and risk analysis, capital budgeting and basic capital structure, dividends and repurchases, IPOs , investment banking, restructuring, and hybrid financing. Prerequisite: FIN 308 .