- Docente: Giulia Baschieri
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration and Management (cod. 8842)
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide students with fundamental concepts, principles, and approaches of corporate finance, enabling them in solving related problems.
After taking this course, students are expected to be able to fully and critically understand the basic theory and techniques of investors and managers decisions making.
Course contents
The perspective is the firm value maximization. The course focuses on fundamental principles that guide corporate manager decisions on financing and investing. Furthermore, it provides students with techniques for quantitative analysis applied in portfolio management and risk-return relation measuring.
Topics covered in this course include:
- Computing and interpreting financial ratios, analysing balance sheet in a financial perspective;
- Security valuation (bond and stocks);
- Corporate value creation: project valuation and capital budgeting;
- Firm valuation;
- Cost of capital, measuring risk and return;
Readings/Bibliography
Brealey R., Myers S. and F. Allen, Principles of Corporate Finance, McGraw-Hill
Teaching methods
Theoretical lectures, applications.
Assessment methods
A written test will provide students with 0-2 bonus points that will be added to the Corporate Finance final grade (year 2).
Teaching tools
Slides provided by the instructor before the class.
Office hours
See the website of Giulia Baschieri