04521 - Business Finance

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Docente: Enrico Maria Cervellati
  • Credits: 8
  • SSD: SECS-P/09
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics of Tourism (cod. 0908)

Learning outcomes

The learning objective is to develop theoretical and applied knowledge that will allow to analyze the firm financial management, i.e., the financial and investment decisions and the financial structure that optimize it.

Course contents

Traditional part: investment and financing decisions. 
Behavioral part: chapters 1-10 of the textbook "Finanza aziendale comportamentale".

Readings/Bibliography

TRADITIONAL CORPORATE FINANCE TEXTBOOK:

We will use one of the following alternative textbooks:

Ross, S., Hillier, D., Westerfield, R., Jaffe, J., Jordan, B. (2011) Corporate Finance, McGraw Hill: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0077121155/information_center_view0/

Damodaran, A. (2014) Applied Corporate Finance, 3rd edition: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/ACF3E/appldCF3E.htm

I suggest not to buy them until I will officially write which one I will use for the course.


BEHAVIORAL CORPORATE FINANCE TEXTBOOK:
Shefrin, H. Behavioral Corporate Finance, McGraw Hill, 2006.

Teaching methods

Lectures, cases, exercises.

Assessment methods

Compulsory written exam, optional oral exam.

Teaching tools

Slides, cases in excel, iPad.

Links to further information

http://www.unibo.it/docenti/enrico.cervellati

Office hours

See the website of Enrico Maria Cervellati