Principles of finance
Summary
The course provides a market-oriented framework for analyzing the major financial decisions made by firms. It provides an introduction to valuation techniques, investment decisions, asset valuation, financing decisions, and sustainable finance.
Content
1. Introduction to finance
2. Discounting, and interest rates
3. Introduction to the valuation of bonds and stocks and to sustainable finance
4. Risk and return
5. Evaluating firms and projects/innovations
6. Financing firms and projects/innovations
7. Financial derivatives
Keywords
Corporate Finance, Valuation, Portfolio Choice, Option Pricing Theory, Sustainable Finance
Learning Prerequisites
Required courses
No prerequisite
Recommended courses
No prerequisite
Important concepts to start the course
No prerequisite
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Apply standard valuations models used in financial markets
- Explore the trade-off between risk and return
- Develop an ability to make portfolio decisions
- Develop an ability to analyze and evaluate firms and investment projects
- Analyze the determinants of financing decisions
- Derive derivatives prices and understand derivatives markets
Transversal skills
- Plan and carry out activities in a way which makes optimal use of available time and other resources.
- Use a work methodology appropriate to the task.
- Communicate effectively, being understood, including across different languages and cultures.
- Communicate effectively with professionals from other disciplines.
- Give feedback (critique) in an appropriate fashion.
- Evaluate one's own performance in the team, receive and respond appropriately to feedback.
- Keep appropriate documentation for group meetings.
- Negotiate effectively within the group.
- Resolve conflicts in ways that are productive for the task and the people concerned.
- Assess one's own level of skill acquisition, and plan their on-going learning goals.
- Use both general and domain specific IT resources and tools
- Access and evaluate appropriate sources of information.
- Collect data.
Teaching methods
Lectures, homework, exercises
Assessment methods
10% Homework
20% Case study
70% Final exam
Homework and case study are open book. Final exam is closed-book.
Supervision
| Office hours | No |
| Assistants | Yes |
| Forum | No |
Resources
Bibliography
Berk and DeMarzo, Corporate Finance, 4th edition, Pearson 2017
Ressources en bibliothèque
Notes/Handbook
Available on the Moodle site
Moodle Link
Prerequisite for
Venture capital
In the programs
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Principles of finance
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: mandatory
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Principles of finance
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: mandatory
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Principles of finance
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Principles of finance
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Principles of finance
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Principles of finance
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Principles of finance
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional