Cases in Financial Management

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This course analyzes the major financial decisions facing corporate managers. The major topics include investment valuation (capital budgeting), capital structure and dividend policy, and mergers and acquisitions. There will be emphasis on both developing the tools and mindset of the financial practitioner as well as examining specific applications in the form of examples but we will spend a lot of time with case discussions as well. The purpose is to see the concepts of capital structure applied in real world situations – With both more breadth and depth than in the intro corporate finance class. We will end the course discussing more advanced topics such as Real Options and Behavioral Finance.