Case Course in Corporate Finance

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The goal of this course is to familiarize you with fundamental aspects of corporate financial policy and practice through case analysis. Both financing and investment decision making will be examined through in-depth case discussions of representative finance cases including data analysis as appropriate. Tentative topics include capital budgeting under uncertainty, estimation of cost of equity/debt and weighted average cost of capital, implications of the capital asset pricing model and arbitrage pricing theory, dividend policy, optimal capital structure, initial public offerings and merger & acquisitions.