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Professor Ahmad Etebari |
- Exercises
- Solutions to BMM, Chs 5-11 - Note: formulas may not appear as they should!
- The Wall Street Journal
- e-project: Do e-YahooFin first and then e-Project. Click here for a samplesolution, but make sure to design your page creatively, not just copying the sample shown here!
- e-bond
- ebeta
- FinancialCalculators -
- Supplemental Readings:
- Int'l Financial Encyclopedia
- Business Owners Toolkits (CCH)- Business Forms and other tools for planning and running a business.
- Teach me finance (Overview of time value of money, CAPM, IRR, probability distribution and more.)
- FV, PV, Annuity, Bond YTM, Stock Valuation
- MPT Study
- Valuation
- About IPOs and other - thanks to PBS
Term: Fall 2002 Time & Room: TR, 8:10-9:30, McC 212
Course Instructor: Professor Ahmad Etebari, Ph.D.
Office: McConnell 426
W-(: 862-3359; H-(: 868-1447
E-,: ahmad.etebari@unh.edu
Course Objectives: The objective of this course is to acquire an appreciation for and an understanding of the ideas of contemporary finance theory as they relate to acquisition, allocation, and overall management of the firm's financial resources. Emphasis will be placed on development of basic analytical skills useful for financial decision-making. The topics and concepts receiving special attention are valuation, capital budgeting, capital asset pricing, capital costing and restructuring, and dividend policy.
Required Textbook: Fundamentals of Corporate Finance by Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers and Alan Marcus, 3rd ed, Irwin McGraw-Hill, 1991.
Recommended Reading:
1. Newspapers: Wall Street Journal.
2. Study Guide to the Text: Copies of the Study Guide to the Brigham-Houston text are available at the bookstore. This guide gives a summary of each chapter as well as additional problems for review by students on their own.
Methodology: The class will be a combined lecture and tutorial. A fairly substantial number of problems from the textbook are assigned for each class. You are expected to study the reading assignments prior to each class and try to work out the related quizzes, self-test questions, and/or assigned problems beforehand. (Solutions to quizzes and self-test questions are available in your textbook.) Some of your assignments require the use of resources available on the web. On the assignment sheet, I have listed four such assignments, prefixed with “e-“.
You are also expected to look over The Wall Street Journal regularly. The goal is to read about the news items (economic, political, financial, etc.) and understand their implications for corporate financial management. I will often use articles from the Journal for discussion in class.
Assessment: Two semester exams and a final will be given. Each semester exam will cover the materials discussed since the previous exam. The final will be cumulative. These exams must be taken in class on the designated dates and times. No make?up exams will be given. So, students should plan to schedule their other commitments on nonexam dates.
Your exams will be given a weight of 90% (30% each). The remaining 10% of your course grade will come from your class participation and other assignments. The latter includes a brief project due at the end of the semester.
Regular attendance/participation is required to receive credit.
ACFI 601 Course Schedule & Assignments, Fall 2002
Date Topic Chapter Qt=(Question);Pr=(Problem)
T 9/ 3 Introduction of the Course Ch 1
R 9/ 5 Accounting and Finance Ch 2 6, 8, 12, 17, 19
T 9/10 Financial Statement Analysis Ch 17 11, 12, 18, 19, 20
R 9/12 Time Value of Money Ch 3 Quizzes: 4,7,14,15,16,18
T 9/17 Continued Ch 3 22,36,37,38,44,57,61, e-loan
R 9/21 Bond Valuation Ch 4 11, 12, 21, 24, e-bond
T 9/24 Continued e-YahooFin
R 9/26 EXAM 1 (Regular class time or at 12:35-2:00 p.m. in McConnell 212.)
T 10/ 1 Stock Valuation Ch 5
R 10/ 3 Stock Valuation Ch 5 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19
T 10/ 8 NPV & Other Investment Rules Ch 6 21, 23
R 10/10 Continued Ch 6 14, 18, 20, 22
T 10/15 Cash Flow Analysis Ch 7 11, 12, 20, 21, 23
R 10/17 TBA later
T 10/22 Intro to Risk and Return Ch 9 Handout
R 10/24 Continued Ch 9 9, 12, 16, 21
T 10/29 CAPM and Capital Budgeting Ch 10 8, 9, 11, 19, 26-28, e-beta
R 10/31 Corporate Financing Ch 13,14 Minicase form Ch 14Save your Mon., Nov. 4 issue of the WSJ for the assignment on 11/7. Questions for this assignment will be distributed in the T 11/5 class and posted on the course web page.
T 11/ 5 Cost of Capital Ch 11 1, 6, 8, 13, 15, 16, 17
R 11/ 7 The Wall Street Journal WSJ Handout qts.
T 11/14 Continued WSJ
R 11/19 EXAM 2 (Regular class time or 12:35-2:00 in McConnell 212 and 314)
T 11/21 Market Efficiency Ch 12 6, 10, 11, 13
R 11/26 Continued
T 11/ 3 Capital Structure Policy Ch 15 TBA, e-Project
T 12/10 Continued Ch.15 TBA
R 12/12 Dividend Policy Ch 16 TBA
Final Exam: Date and place will be announced later.
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