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Part I: Financing

Objective

The aim of this part of the course is to develop a framework to think about how firms finance their activities. We will go back and forth between developing theories and confronting them to specific practical cases.

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1Lecture: Introduction
2Case: Wilson Lumber 1
3Case: Wilson Lumber 2
4Lecture: Capital Structure 1
5Lecture: Capital Structure 2
6Case: Debt Policy at UST Inc.
7Case: Massey Ferguson, 1980
8Lecture: Capital Structure: Informational and Dynamic Considerations
9Case: MCI Communications Corp., 1983
10Review of Financing and Capital Structure
11Case: Intel Corporation, 1992
Midterm Exam



Part II: Valuation

Objective

The aim is to study and develop tools to evaluate real investment opportunities, such as building a new plant or acquiring another company. Again, we develop a framework of analysis and confront it to several practical cases.

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12Lecture: Valuation of Free Cash Flows
13Case: Cost of Capital at Ameritrade
14Lecture: WACC and APV 1
15Lecture: WACC and APV 2
16Case: Dixon Corporation 1
17Case: Dixon Corporation 2
18Case: Diamond Chemicals (A)
19Lecture: Real Options
20Case: MW Petroleum Corporation (A)
21Lecture: Valuing a Company
22Case: Cooper Industries, Inc.
23Case: The Southland Corporation (A)
24Wrap-Up of Valuation
Final Exam

 








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