04521 - Corporate Finance

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Management and Marketing (cod. 8406)

Learning outcomes

Develop an understanding of the theory and practice of corporate finance with an understanding of discounted cash flow, valuation, risk and return, capital asset pricing model, corporate capital structure, capital budgeting, mergers and acquisitions, and investment and financing decisions.

Course contents

  • Corporate Governance
  • Discounted cash flow and valuation
  • Interest rates
  • Bond pricing
  • Equity pricing
  • Investment decisions
  • Risk and return and capital asset pricing model
  • Efficient market hypothesis
  • VC and PE
  • IPOs
  • SEOs
  • Corporate capital structure

Readings/Bibliography

Brealey, R.A., Myers, S.C., Allen, F., Sandri, S.,
Principi di finanza aziendale, Milano, McGaw Hill Italia, last edition.

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Written exam

Office hours

See the website of Stefano Mengoli