BUSI 3500

Applied Corporate Finance

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

An examination of the major issues in corporate finance and applied financial management. Topics include: introduction to portfolio theory, the capital asset pricing model, cost of capital, capital structure and dividend policy, lease financing, capital budgeting under uncertainty, mergers and consolidations.

2025

Topics

Introduction: the objective of corporate D1, D2
Risk measurement and determination D3, D4
Practical issues in capital budgeting I D5, D6
Practical issues in capital budgeting II D5, D6
Valuation I D12
Valuation II D12
Determining Optimal Capital structure D7, D8
Determining Optimal Capital structure D8, D9
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Prerequisites & course information

Precludes additional credit for ECON 4052 . Prerequisite(s): BUSI 2501 or BUSI 2505 (with a grade of C+ or higher in each), and STAT 2601 or STAT 2559 , and ECON 1001 and ECON 1002 , and MATH 1009 or MATH 1052 (with a grade of C- or higher in each). Lecture three hours a week.

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