GRA 8268 Corporate Finance
GRA 8268 Corporate Finance
This course will introduce you to Corporate Finance. The main objective of the course is to provide you with insights and practical tools that will help you make sound corporate financial decisions. In other words, financial decisions that create long-term value. The course will show how to integrate sustainability into financial decision making and the integration of sustainability goals and objectives.
The course covers two broad topics:
Part I: Financial Policy and the risk-return trade-off:
In Part I, we will examine the factors that determine a company’s need for external financing, be it debt or equity. We will then consider the optimal mix of debt and equity financing. We will also introduce you to the trade-off between risk and return in capital markets.
Part II: Valuation:
In Part II, we will develop the tools needed for valuing investment projects, including the estimation of relevant project cash flows, estimating the cost of capital (discount rate), and dealing with risk. We will then use these tools as a basis for selecting investment projects and valuing companies and corporate transactions (including, but not limited to, a merger or an acquisition).
Upon completion, the student will be able to:
- Explain methods for evaluating investment projects.
- Explain relevant risk in project analysis and corporate valuations.
- Explain why corporate cost of capital relates to investors’ expected return on other assets.
- Analyze the effect of capital structure on the value of a corporation and its equity.
- Describe methods for valuing companies.
- Distinguish between “risk” variance and “risk” as covariance, recognizing that the former has no market price while the
- latter has.
- Explain what determines the value of a financial option and its relation to the cost of insurance.
Upon completion, the student will be able to:
- Evaluate investment opportunities.
- Determine cost of capital for projects and companies.
- Value corporations.
- Compute the value of a merger and formulate a bidding strategy.
- Estimate the value of an option.
Upon completion, the student will be able to:
- Analyze corporate financial decisions considering their long-term value creation and the integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors.
- Communicate financial analyses and recommendations effectively to diverse audiences.
1. Introduction to corporate finance.
2. Financial planning.
3. Capital budgeting.
4. Risk and return. CAPM.
5. Capital structure.
6. Free Cash Flow.
7. Cost of capital.
8. Options. real options.
9. Mergers and acquisitions.
1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours.
The course is conducted through a total of 32 hours of lectures and casework. The cases are prepared in groups and discussed in class. It is expected that the participants actively participate in class discussions.
A number of cases will be used throughout the course. It is expected that the participants have prepared themselves beforehand for the discussion of the cases in the classroom.
Attendance to all sessions in the course is compulsory. If you have to miss part(s) of the course you must ask in advance for leave of absence. More than 25% absence in a course will require retaking the entire course. It's the student's own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class that is not included on the course homepage/ It's learning or other course materials.
The course is a part of a full Executive MBA programme and examination in all courses must be passed in order to obtain a certificate.
In all BI Executive courses and programmes, there is a mutual requirement for the student and the course responsible regarding the involvement of the student's experience in the planning and implementation of courses, modules and programmes. This means that the student has the right and duty to get involved with their own knowledge and practice relevance, through the active sharing of their relevant experience and knowledge.
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Disclaimer
Changes in exam type can be made until the course starts. In addition, unforeseen events or external conditions may call for deviations in teaching and exams.
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Submission other than PDF Exam/hand-in semester: Second Semester Weight: 40 Grouping: Individual Duration: 4 Week(s) Exam code: GRA 82686 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Submission other than PDF Exam/hand-in semester: Second Semester Weight: 60 Grouping: Group (4 - 8) Duration: 4 Week(s) Comment: Group assignment, counts 60% of the final grade. Groups submit a pdf file and a video, accompanied by a 10 min oral explanation. Each group is responsible for recording and uploading the oral explanation on Wiseflow. Further instructions are given in class. Exam code: GRA 82687 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
| Activity | Duration | Comment |
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Teaching | 32 Hour(s) | |
Prepare for teaching | 28 Hour(s) | |
Student's own work with learning resources | 50 Hour(s) | Self study, feedback activities/counselling and exam |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 4 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 110 hours.
Students submit a pdf file, accompanied by a 10 min oral discussion with professor. Each individual student is responsible for recording and uploading the oral discussion on Wiseflow.