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Description:	This course focuses on financial decision making in the modern corporation. The course introduces the concepts and techniques necessary to analyze and implement optimal investment decisions, covering effect of time and uncertainty on decision making. The basic issues includes also capital budgeting/corporate investment, capital structure and dividend policy.
Topics:	The Objective in Corporate Finance. Present Value Concept. Equity Markets and Stocks Valuation. Investment Analysis: Estimating Earnings and Cash Flows on Projects; Investment Decision Rules. Investment Decision under Incertitude. Capital Budgeting; Financial Planning and Short Term Financial Management. Dividend Policy and Capital Structure. Agency Theory. Corporate Governance.
Teaching:	28 hours during second semester