SEU Principles of Finance ( FIN101)

This course is designed to survey the field of finance and provide the foundation for more advanced finance coursework. Topics include resources of business and financial information, corporate financial performance, the time-value-of-money, the nature and measurement of risk, financial institutions, investments, and corporate finance.

1. Understand the financial environment of the company
2. Examine the relation finance/accounting.
3. Measure financial corporate
4. Apply the concepts of time-value-of-money to determine the valuation of bonds and stocks.
5. Analyze the relationship between risk and return.
6. Evaluate investment opportunities.
7. Evaluate cost of capital for decisions related to financing the operations of a corporation.

1. The Financial Manager and the Firm
2. The Financial System and the Level of Interest Rates
3. Financial Statements, Cash Flows, and Taxes
4. The Time Value of Money
5. Discounted Cash Flows and Valuation
6. Risk and Return
7. Bond Valuation and the Structure of Interest Rates
8. Stock Valuation
9. The Fundamentals of Capital Budgeting
10. The Cost of Capital
11. How Firms Raise Capital
12. Capital Structure Policy

Dividends, Stock Repurchases, and Payout Policy

•     Textbook

Parrino, R. Moles, P., and Kidwell, D.S., 2018 Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 4th Edition John Wiley & Sons.

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• References:

Gitmen, L., and Zutter, C., “Principles of Managerial Finance”. 13th Ed. Pearson, 2012.