VMBA5702

This module will provide you with the core concepts and tools of finance. Internalizing these ideas will provide the foundation for addressing financial issues with confidence and curiosity both for your personal financial decisions and for your future career. The course will utilize a framework to help organize our discussions.

Key elements include:
- Tools, techniques, and tips for financial and business performance assessment and analysis.
- Capital budgeting: investing decisions with a deep dive into valuation tools for applications ranging from project evaluation to company valuation.
- Capital structure: financing decisions. We will follow the lifecycle of a firm and evaluate financing options from early stage (such as angel investors and venture capital) through decisions to “go public” to late stage “take-private” transactions.
- Capital allocation: decisions on what to do with free cash flows. Topics will include dividend and buyback decisions as well as techniques to evaluate growth drivers such as mergers and acquisitions.

Every Spring & Summer