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Syllabus

Syllabus - Summer 2024

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Class Info/time

July 1 - July 12

Mondays - Thursdays 8.00-11:00am

Zoom Call
(Accessing on-line zoom call)

Zoom Room

Active Learning
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Active Learning

Professor's Biography

Professor's Biography

Office Hours/Remote
(9:00-5pm)

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July 1

Jul 2

July 3

Jul 4

July 5

July 8

July 9
 

July 10
 

July 11

July 12
DCF Workshop
work on Project

 

INVESTMENT RISK/RETURN
(TIME-VALUE OF MONEY)

   

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S

   

CORPORATE FINANCE
(COMPANY SPECIFIC AND TRANSACTION ANALYSIS)

Assigned Chapters

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Intro Part 1 - Portfolio Management

Chapter #1

Chapter #2-3

Chapter #3-4

Into Part III - Secondary Markets
 
Chapter #10

Chapter #11

Intro Part IV - Company Specific Analysis
 
Chapter #15

Chapter #15
16 (Partial)

Chapter #16 & 17

Chapters #17 and 9
 
Review of Project

 

Assigned Lectures & Class Presentations

Introduction to Finance Lecture 0

Lecture 1: Time Value of Money

Lecture 2 Presentation

Lecture 3a Presentation

Lecture 3b Presentation

Lecture 4 Presentation

Lecture 4b Intro to Stock Valuation

Lecture 4 - Powerpoint

Lecture 5 - Presentation

 

Lecture 7: Chapter 17 - Valuation for Public and Private Companies

 

Assigned Spreadsheets

TVM Mini Template

Risk, Return & TVM

Coveriance, Correlation & Eff. Frontiers

Betas and Regression Analysis

Sharpe Ratios and CAPM

Sexondary Markets: Investing in Stocks

Secondary Markets: Investing in Bonds

Cash Flow and Ratio Analysis Template

 

CASE STUDY #2: Alexandria Hotel LBO

Case Study #1: Alexandria Hotel Template

 

Zoom Recordings

                 

Lecture Videos

Portfolio Management (Chapter 1-4)

   

Secondary Markets: Equity Markets, Analysis and Valuation (Chapter 10)

Secondary Markets: Bond Markets, Analysis and Valuation (Chapter 11)

       

Homework Assignments (via Active Learning)

   

Due:  Chapter 1a & 1b

Due Chapters 2, 3 and 4

Due Chapter 10

Due Chapter 11

     

Spreadsheet Templates

 

     

Ch. I Hwk Part A (1-27) Template

Ch. I Hwk Part B (1-10) Template

Chapter 2 Excel Templates

 

Financial Analysis

Chapter 15 Excel Templates

Projections Analysis

Chapter 16 Excel Templates

Chapter 17 Valuation Analysis

Chapter 9 - Transaction Analysis (LBO, M&A)

Testing the Twitter Acquisition

 

Project Assignment

       

Beta, CAPM and Sharpe Ratio Analysis

Companies' stocks for in-class project

Bond Analysis Practice Sheet

     

FINAL PROJECT DUE 12/22

Project Description and Assigned Companies

Hyatt Financial Analysis and Valuation

Yahoo Finance

Marcus Hotels

Silgan

Dunkin

Relevant Articles/Links

         

SEC Edgar Database