Chapter One Basic Areas of Finance: 1. Corporate Finance = Business Finance 2. Investments a. Work with financial assets such as stocks and bonds. b. Value of financial assets‚ risk verses return and asset allocation. c. Job opportunities. 3. Financial Institutions a. Companies that specialize in financial matters. i. Banks – Credit unions‚ savings‚ and loans. ii. Insurance Companies iii. Brokerage Firms b. Job Opportunities. 4. International Finance a. An area of specialization within each of the
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CFA Institute The End of Behavioral Finance Author(s): Richard H. Thaler Source: Financial Analysts Journal‚ Vol. 55‚ No. 6‚ Behavioral Finance (Nov. - Dec.‚ 1999)‚ pp. 12-17 Published by: CFA Institute Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4480205 Accessed: 17/04/2009 10:10 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides‚ in part
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Study notes By Zhipeng Yan Corporate Finance Stephen A. Ross‚ Randolph W. Westerfield‚ Jeffrey Jaffe Chapter 1 Introduction to Corporate Finance ..................................................................... 2 Chapter 2 Accounting Statements and Cash Flow.............................................................. 3 Chapter 3 Financial Markets and NPV: First Principles of Finance................................... 6 Chapter 4 Net Present Value....................................
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Fundamentals of corporate finance (European edition) by David Hillier Quartile 4 IBA Chapter 1 - 14 Chapter 1 Introduction to corporate finance 1.1 Corporate finance and the financial manager Corporate finance must be considered with three basic types of question: 1. What long-term investments to make 2. Where will we get the money for those investments from 3. How will we manage everyday financial activities 1. What long-term investment to make: To process of planning and
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by an "agency cost" or "agency problem"? Do these interfere with shareholder wealth maximization? Why? What mechanisms minimize these costs/problems? Are executive compensation contracts effective in mitigating these costs/problems? Our textbook defines an agency problem as a “conflict between the goals of a firm’s owners and its managers” (Megginson & Smart‚ 2009). It then defines agency costs as dollar costs that arise because of this conflict. In the corporate structure‚ stockholders are the
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Joanne Jackson June 1‚ 2011 Corporate Finance 620 M 600-950 Ch. 12 Mini Case A. Do you think Adam Lee should develop a strategic plan for the company? Why? What are the central elements of such a plan? What is the role of finance in a strategic plan? Yes. The goal of companies is to create more wealth for the owners and for financial managers to make their company more valuable and without well designed strategic and tactical plans in place it is impossible to do. The central
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WORLD ADVANCED CORPORATE FINANCE BELZE Loïc Financial Options Lecture 7 – Chapter 20 ADVANCED CORPORATE FINANCE – BELZE Loïc – Adapted from 2011 Berk & DeMarzo Pearson Education 7 - 20 - 1 www.em-lyon.com © EMLYON School EMLYON Business 2011 Chapter Outline • • • • • • 20.1 – Option Basics 20.2 – Option Payoffs at Expiration 20.3 – Put-Call Parity 20.4 – Factors Affecting Option Prices 20.5 – Exercising Options Early 20.6 – Options and Corporate Finance ADVANCED CORPORATE
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Corporate Finance Syllabus Spring 2009 Prof. Anna Scherbina UC Davis Graduate School of Management Office: 126 AOB IV Tel: 530.754.8076 e-mail: ascherbina@ucdavis.edu Course Focus We will explore how corporations make financial decisions through the analysis of Harvard Business School cases. Should a firm undertake a new investment opportunity‚ raise equity‚ acquire another firm‚ or conduct an IPO? How should small firms manage their working capital? How fast should a firm grow
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Corporate Finance Career Overview If you work in private enterprise‚ your company measures its success at the end of the year by comparing how much money it made to how much it spent. If it has made more than it has spent‚ it was a good year. If it has made less than it has spent‚ it was a bad year—or the company is in an investment phase. (In other words‚ like Amazon.com‚ it spent more than it made because the company and its investors believed it would realize a profit in the near future
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IMBA -FIN 6425 – Quiz 1 Corporate Finance - Solution– Nimalendran This is an individual quiz and you should submit the answers on-line by the scheduled date. You are allowed to use any resources EXCEPT help from any other person. You are allowed to use EXCEL for the calculations. 1. Barkley Credit Union sets a low annual percentage rate (5%) for all its credit card customers instead of basing the interest rates on the customers’ credit scores. Consequently Barkley is exposed to ______________
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