Introduction to Corporate Finance

Overview:

Contents:

• The traditional view on corporate finance
• The modern view on corporate finance
• Foundations of investments
• Capital budgeting and investment criteria
• Decision problems under uncertainty
• The cost of capital for equity and debt
• Capital structure and the cost of capital

Learning outcome / core skills:

• understand and being able to explain the different functions of corporate finance within a firm according to the traditional and modern views.
• explain and correctly apply the basic terminology of corporate finance.
• explain and critically reflect the economic foundations of investment theory.
• explain and apply major methods and criteria for investment evaluation (net present value methods, future value method, annuity method, internal rate of return, pay-back method).
• put structure to decision problems under uncertainty.
• explain and distinguish between different forms of financing and be able to critically assess their potential strengths and weaknesses.

More information regarding the course can be found here: UniVZ