FI 5320 - Corporate Finance

Students will explore and apply the tools available to identify capital management, its formation, and relationship to the financial stability of the organization. Students will examine and apply the principles and basic tools of financial management and related frameworks for making ethical financial decisions within organizations. Non-financial metrics of performance including social and financial return are explored in relation to social return on investment and its impact on stakeholders. Students will examine and analyze the tension between social and financial return. Along with how does an organization include non-financial metrics on a balance sheet and is it appropriate to convert non-financial metrics to a financial metric to achieve this? This course will help students develop and apply a core set of skills in modeling, valuation, mergers and acquisitions, financial reporting, and taxation. Students will determine how to choose between investments, taxation, cash flows, exchange rate risk, pricing and trading of equities, derivatives, and degrees of risk and the relationship to the financial stability of the organization. (Pre-requisites: MG 5140 ) Credits: 4