04521 - Corporate Finance

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Blended Learning
  • 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

  • 1. Kickoff and Corporate Governance

    2. Financial Balance Sheet & PL

    3. Financial Mathematics for Corporate Finance  

    4. Bond pricing

    5. Interest Rates

    6. Equity pricing

    7. Cost of Capital: Risk and return

    8. Portfolio theory

    9. Systematic risk

    10. Mock test

  • 11. Scraping financial data - python (online)

  • 12. CAPM

  • 13. Asset allocation - python (online)

  • 14. Capital budgeting

    15. NPV, IRR e TR

    16. WACC

    17. VCs, PEs, and IPOs

    18. SEOs

    19. Capital Structure

    20. Mock test

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

SDGs

Quality education

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.