Economics 215 - Corporate Finance

The course covers issues related to core principles of corporate financing and investing decision-making, with the goal of giving students a solid understanding of the main theories underlying a firm's investment decisions using open databases and a case-study approach. Students will learn to apply theories, concepts, and principles of corporate financing and investing decision-making; estimate future cash flows and evaluate the risk and return of an investment project; define the best investment opportunity based on the capital budgeting criteria; interpret the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of a company; identify the operating and financial risk generated by the assets and capital structure; apply CAPM for valuation purposes; gain a working knowledge of core elements of financial statements.

Prereq: ECON-110.