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XuetangX

Corporate Finance

Shanghai University of International Business and Economics via XuetangX

Overview

Based on financial statement analysis, Corporate Finance enables students to master the professional knowledge of financial decision-making, such as investment, financing, dividend distribution and so on, and to have a good grasp of capital markets, investment instruments, risk-return relationships in the open market environment. The main contents of the course include: financial statements and cash flow, time value of money, bond and stock valuation, capital budgeting, risk and return, cost of capital, capital structure and dividend policy, etc.

The course adopts English-language textbooks and is taught in English. This is consistent with the common practice of international business schools, which is beneficial for students' future overseas studies. This course cultivates students' problem-solving abilities, which will lay a solid foundation for a student to achieve excellence in finance, accounting, management and other fields.

 

Syllabus

  • Chapter 1 Introduction to Corporate Finance
    •  1.1 What is Corporate Finance?
    •  1.2 The Goal of Corporate Finance
  • Chapter 2 Financial Statements and Cash Flow
    •  2.1 The Balance Sheet
    •  2.2 The Income Statement
    •  2.3 Cash Flow
  • Chapter 3 Working with Financial Statements
    •  3.1 Short-term& Long-term Solvency Ratios
    •  3.2 Turnover, Profitability & Market Value Ratios
    •  3.3 The DuPont Identity
    •  3.4 Standardized Financial Statements
  • Chapter 4 Time Value of Money & Discounted Cash Flow Valuation
    •  4.1 Time Value of Money
    •  4.2 Annuities and Perpetuities Defined
    •  4.3 Comparing Rates: The Effect of Compounding
    •  4.4 Loan Types and Loan Amortization
  • Chapter 5 Interest Rates and Bond Valuation
    •  5.1 Bonds and Bond Valuation
    •  5.2 Interest Rate Risk
    •  5.3 More about Bond Features
    •  5.4 Inflation and Interest Rates
    •  5.5 Determinants of Bond Yields
  • Chapter 6 Stock Valuation
    •  6.1 Common Stock Valuation
    • 6.2 Estimating Dividends- Special Cases
    • 6.3 Stock Valuation Using Multiples
    •  6.4 Some Features of Common and Preferred Stocks
  • Chapter 7 Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria
    •  7.1-7.4 NPV, Payback Period, IRR
  • Chapter 8 Making Capital Investment Decisions
    •  8.1 Incremental Cash Flows
    •  8.2 Project Cash Flows
    •  8.3 Some Special Cases of Project Analysis
    •  8.4 Scenario Analysis & Sensitivity Analysis
  • Chapter 9 Risk, Return and Security Market Line
    •  9.1 Measuring Returns and Variability
    •  9.2 Capital Market Efficiency
    •  9.3 Expected Returns and Variances
    •  9.4 -9.6 Risk, Beta and Expected Returns
  • Chapter 10 Cost Of Capital
    •  10.1 Cost of Capital - Some Preliminaries
    •  10.2 Cost of Equity
    •  10.3 Cost of Debt
    •  10.4 The Weighted Average Cost of Capital
  • Chapter 11 Long-term Financing
    •  11.1 The Public Issue and Procedure
    •  11.2 The Seasoned Offering
  • Chapter 12 Financial Leverage and Capital Structure Theory
    •  12.1 Financial Leverage, EPS, and ROE
    •  12.2 Capital Structure Theory: MM Model
    •  12.3 Other Capital Structure Theories
  • Chapter 13 Dividends and Other Payouts
    •  13.1 Cash Dividend and It’s Payment Procedure
    •  13.2 Does Dividend Policy Matter?
    •  13.3 Stock Repurchase and Stock Dividend
  • TEST

    Taught by

    Qu Yanying , ZHANG QIANG, Ling Jie, Fang Hongyan, Song He, and Ni Hongxia

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