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FIN 531

Department

Finance

Course Code

FIN 531

Course Title

Advanced Corporate Finance

Course Credit

3 hours

Prerequisite Course

FIN 501

Course Level

Semester(3)

Course Description

This course is a continuation of the corporate finance course with an emphasis on the theories that shaped corporate financial decision-making processes. Main topics and theories included in this course are:  advanced concepts in capital budgeting and capital structure, dividend policy, mergers and acquisitions, leasing, asset pricing models, agency theory, signaling theory, and the neo-classical theory of Miller and Modigliani.

Course Material

Name of the book

Brigham, Eugene F. and Michael C. Ehrhardt , Financial Management, Theory & Practice 13th edition or latest.

Reading Recommendation

Ross, Westerfield, and Jordan (2010).  Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, Latest edition, McGraw-Hill

CFA curriculum readings, levels I & II., 2014.

Journal of Finance

Journal of Financial Economics

Journal of Business

Journal of Corporate Finance

Review of Financial Studies

Some useful Websites:

Good sources for financial news:

www.cfonews.com

www.dowjones.com

www.economist.com   (The Economist)

www.ft.com   (The Financial Times)

www.wsj.com   (The Wall Street Journal – partly restricted to subscribers)

www.brint.com

Course Language

English

Last updated on : January 12, 2023 12:51am