Description: This course looks at the nature of the VC firm, its fundraising, and compensation. It explores the portfolio strategies, valuation, and corporate management issues. Of importance are the VC's exit strategies, term sheet negotiations, and syndicating.Course includes analyzing long term financial projections as part of a simulation, in which you work with the Entrepreneurial Finance course to analyze early-stage deal terms and negotiate an investment round. This course is for people who are not taking nor plan to take MFIN2210 Entrepreneurial Finance.
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 130 Th 04:30PM-06:50PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 40 / Total Seats: 35
Description: This course will review the merger & acquisition process from the perspective of buyers and sellers of both private and public companies. Placing emphasis on the valuation of companies as well as the analysis of non-financial factors, the course will endeavor to provide the participants with a practical approach to analyzing and advising clients on the positive and negative aspects of an M&A transaction. Additional topics will include understanding the use of leverage, transaction structure, due diligence, and the concept of fairness. The class will be a combination of lectures and case studies presented in class by the participants.
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 145 W 07:00PM-09:30PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 39 / Total Seats: 38
Description: This class focuses on understanding the design of cryptocurrencies and blockchains and their investment implications. We first discuss the technical underpinnings of blockchain and review key concepts such as decentralization and consensus algorithms. We then examine cryptocurrencies as an asset and review the dynamics of crypto markets. Finally, we discuss limits of arbitrage and hedging in crypto futures and options.A general knowledge of Python coding is assumed.STEM-designated
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 511 (Auditorium) M 04:30PM-06:50PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 37 / Total Seats: 40
Description: The objective of the course is to provide hands-on experience in financial statement analysis in a real-world setting. Students will be exposed to general tools of financial analysis, theoretical concepts, and practical valuation issues. By the end of the course, students should develop a framework for evaluating an investment opportunity by using a firm's financial statements to draw an understanding of their performance and provide a basis for making reasonable valuation estimates, as well as have an understanding of the challenges investor face in determining the earnings power of a company.CGSOM students can earn credit for either MFIN6665 or MFIN8869, not both.
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 230 Th 07:00PM-09:30PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 23 / Total Seats: 40
Description: In this course we will examine how large scale renewable energy projects actually get financed and built, using the structures of modern non-recourse project finance. We will examine the economics of large-scale green power production, and how it fits into the U.S. and global energy industries. Through a mixture of lectures and real-life examples students will get to see how renewable energy project finance works in actual deals that mix finance, public policy, legal, engineering, and environmental issues. The skills developed in analyzing non-recourse cash flow-based finance will be generally applicable to students interested not just in green energy, but also more widely in private equity and infrastructure investing. The course is designed to introduce students to the theory and practice of project finance in the energy and renewables sector, complementing academic finance theory with the practical aspects of financing capital intensive energy projects.
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 115 M 07:00PM-09:30PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 41 / Total Seats: 40
Description: The course is intended to introduce the students to basic economic concepts such as supply and demand, market equilibrium, efficiency, opportunity costs, sunk costs, different market structures, gross domestic product (GDP), money, inflation, unemployment, and monetary policy. The course will be divided into two parts: (1) Microeconomics where the focus is on individual economic agents. In this part consumer demand, firm supply, market structure, equilibrium, efficiency, opportunity costs, and sunk costs are covered. (2) Macroeconomics where the focus is the economy as a whole. In this part the topics are GDP, growth, money, inflation, and unemployment.
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 150 TuTh 11:00AM-01:00PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 44 / Total Seats: 50
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 150 TuTh 01:45PM-03:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 42 / Total Seats: 50
Description: This course deals primarily with a firm's investment and financing decisions. Topics treated intensively include valuation and risk, capital budgeting, financial leverage, capital structure and working capital management. Also discussed are financial statistical analysis and tools of planning and control. Some attention is given to financial institutions and their role in supplying funds to businesses and non-profit organizations.
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 511 (Auditorium) W 07:00PM-09:30PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 30 / Total Seats: 45
Description: This is a First Year M.B.A. Core course in finance. The course will deal with an organization's investment and financing decisions and its interactions with the capital markets. Topics include valuation and risk assessment, capital budgeting, financial decisions and working capital management. Investors' valuation of securities is linked to both the net present value rule for corporate decisions, and possible sources of value creation.
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 130 MW 01:45PM-03:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 42 / Total Seats: 60
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 130 MW 11:00AM-01:00PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 44 / Total Seats: 60
Description: In a competitive market, investors allocate funds among financial securities in response to perceived values and subjective attitudes toward risk. This course addresses the issues that seem to determine the relative values of financial instruments and the techniques available to assist the investor in making risk/return tradeoff.
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Location and Time: On-line Asynchronous
Time Category: Unspecified
Used Seats: 42 / Total Seats: 40
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Location and Time: Gasson Hall 205 Tu 07:00PM-09:30PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 45 / Total Seats: 40
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 145 M 04:30PM-06:50PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 42 / Total Seats: 40
Description: This course provides a detailed introduction to quantitative portfolio management techniques. After a review of basic investment theory and statistical methods, we will concentrate our class discussion on the following issues: mean-variance portfolio construction methods in theory and in practice and the role for active quantitative portfolio managementSTEM-designated
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Location and Time: Fulton Hall 250 M 07:00PM-09:30PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 15 / Total Seats: 10