Financial Management

FIN 819: Financial Management

Administrative Issues Course Overview

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Today’s plan

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Administrative issues

• prerequisite • add, drop and withdraw • projects • case writing and discussion • final exam • final grade

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Course overview Team formation

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The instructor

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My name is George Li Office: DTC 582 and BUS 315 Email: li123456@sfsu.edu Office hours: Monday: 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at BUS 315 Thursday: 3:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at DTC 582 Research interest: • Corporate finance: real options • Asset pricing: information and stock prices

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My website

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All the lecture slides, solution to homework problems, sample final exam will be posted on my website: http://online.sfsu.edu/~li123456 I only use ilearn to send you emails.

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Textbook

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The textbook for background reading

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Principles of Corporate Finance, 9th Edition, by Richard A. Brealy and Stewart C. Myers, published by Irwin McGraw-Hill, 2008.

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Prerequisite

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You are required to take BUS 785 with a grade of at least B-, or have a waiver of this course. It is the school’s policy that all the students in this course must satisfy this requirement and there is no exception, unless you get the waiver of this prerequisite

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Add, drop and withdrawal policy

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The business school has the policy for add, drop and withdrawal

• Students can withdraw once • If you like to withdraw, you have to do it in the •

first two weeks Please read the Spring 2012 bulletin for detail information

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Homework problems

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In the first several lectures, I will review most important concepts in corporate finance In order to help you to understand these concepts, homework problems are assigned. I will not grade homework but its solution will be posted on my website.

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The two...