2014/2015
KAN-CFIVO1002U Corporate Finance
| English Title |
| Corporate Finance |
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| Language |
English |
| Course ECTS |
7.5 ECTS |
| Type |
Mandatory |
| Level |
Full Degree Master |
| Duration |
One Semester |
| Course period |
Autumn |
| Timetable |
Course schedule will be posted at
calendar.cbs.dk |
| Study board |
Study Board for MSc in Economics and Business
Administration
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| Course
coordinator |
- Claus Munk - Department of Finance (FI)
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| Teacher: Katya
Malinova. |
| Main academic
disciplines |
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Last updated on
04-07-2014
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| Learning objectives |
The aim of the course is to provide students a
thorough understanding of central issues in corporate finance and
of models that are useful for analyzing such issues in a structured
manner. At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Analyze the profitability of corporate investment opportunities
with the purpose of supporting capital budgeting decisions
- Explain the different funding options for a firm as well as
models of capital structure decisions considering, e.g., tax
effects and potential bankruptcy costs
- Analyze the dividend policy of the firm
- Analyze how corporate decisions are influenced by agency
problems and explain how agency problems can be
countered.
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| Examination |
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Corporate
Finance:
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| Exam
ECTS |
7,5 |
| Examination form |
Written sit-in exam |
| Individual or group exam |
Individual |
| Assignment type |
Written assignment |
| Duration |
4 hours |
| Grading scale |
7-step scale |
| Examiner(s) |
Internal examiner and external examiner |
| Exam period |
October |
| Aids allowed to bring
to the exam |
Limited aids, see the list below and the exam
plan/guidelines for further information:
- Additional allowed aids
- Books and compendia brought by the examinee
- Notes brought by the examinee
- Allowed calculators
- Allowed dictionaries
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| Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
If the number of registered candidates for the make-up
examination/re-take examination warrants that it may most
appropriately be held as an oral examination, the programme office
will inform the students that the make-up examination/re-take
examination will be held as an oral examination
instead.
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| Course content and structure |
The course focuses on three major decisions of corporations: the
investment decision, or where to invest a firm’s resources; the
financing decision, or how to finance a given investment; and the
dividend decision, or how much cash to return to
shareholders.
The following topics are treated: risk and the cost of capital,
valuation and investment planning, real options, capital structure,
dividend policy, risk management, agency costs and benefits,
mergers and acquisitions.
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| Teaching methods |
| Lectures, cases and exercices. |
| Student workload |
| Lectures |
33 hours |
| Preparation for lectures |
66 hours |
| Exercise classes |
14 hours |
| Preparation for exercise classes |
70 hours |
| Exam |
4 hours |
| Final preparation for exam |
19 hours |
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| Expected literature |
Berk, J., P. DeMarzo
(2013).
Corporate
Finance
,
3
rd
Edition (Global). Pearson.
Selected articles.
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Last updated on
04-07-2014
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