This course addresses key decisions and issues faced by senior financial officers in corporations, and provides the analytical frameworks and approaches that are employed to resolve these issues. The course has three major objectives to:
- Provide an introduction to financial markets and sources of capital for firms.
- Introduce strategic financial policies set by senior financial managers and show how these policies affect an organization’s ability to meet its strategic objectives.
- Demonstrate analytical tools used to evaluate an organization and to show how specific activities undertaken by a company create or destroy its value.