FIN 221 Corporate Finance, Fall 2020, Spring 2021

Sample Syllabus of Corporate Finance:

• Week 1: Time value of money

• Week 2-3: Balance sheets, income statements, statement of cash flows, measures of cash flow, and taxes

• Week 4: Ratio analysis

• Week 5: Financial institutions, financial technologies

• Week 6-7: Corporate bonds and the valuation of different types of debt instruments

• Week 8: Common and preferred stock basics, valuation of preferred stocks, and valuation of common stock

• Week 9: Capital budgeting, cost of capital, WACC

• Week 10: Capital budgeting decision-making techniques; NPV, IRR, MIRR, payback & discounted payback.

• Week 11-12: Cash flow analysis and evaluation for capital budgeting projects