Finance Syllabus Applied

FINA 4210: Applied Corporate Finance

Spring 2012

Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30-10:45 am

Caldwell 305

"I will be academically honest in all of my academic work

and will not tolerate academic dishonesty of others."

* UGA Student Honor Code

http://www.uga.edu/honesty/

Instructor: Dr. Chris Pope

437 Brooks Hall, 583-0386, cpope@terry.uga.edu

Office Hours: 12-1 pm, Tuesday and 1-2 pm on Thursdays

Master Syllabus Elements:

a) FINA 4210: Applied Corporate Finance

b) Course Description: Corporate financial decision making by applying the tools, techniques, and theories of finance to actual business decisions.

c) Prerequisites, corequisites, and cross-listings for the course: Prerequisites for FINA 4210 are FINA 3000 and (MSIT 3000 or STAT 3000) and FINA 4200.

d) Course objectives or expected learning outcomes:

This course develops a student's ability to make financial decisions. Specifically, a student learns to gather information in light of theory and standard practice, and arrive at value-creating decisions. In addition to identifying value-creating decisions, students must be able to communicate the basis to both sophisticated and unsophisticated audiences.

e) Topical outline:

The course covers the following topics: ratio analysis, cost of capital, capital budgeting, mergers and acquisitions, valuation, dividend policy, short-term and long-term financial policy, and the corporate finance implications of market efficiency.

f) University Honor Code and Academic Honesty Policy:

As a University of Georgia student, you have agreed to abide by the University’s academic honesty policy, “A Culture of Honesty,” and the Student Honor Code. All academic work must meet the standards described in “A Culture of Honesty” found at: http://www.uga.edu/honesty. Lack of knowledge of the academic honesty policy is not a reasonable explanation for a violation. Questions related to course assignments and the academic honesty policy should be...