FM304      Half Unit
Applied Corporate Finance

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

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Pre-requisites:

Students must have completed FM200 and FM214 and FM215 before taking this course.

This course will focus on the applications of key concepts in corporate finance and implicitly extend the topics covered in Principles of Finance (FM214 and FM215). There will be three main topics covered in the course. The first topic is corporate investment. We will consider various methods used by firms to evaluate investment opportunities. The second topic is financing decisions. We will cover how firms finance their operations using debt and equity. The third topic is valuation. We will learn methods used to value companies and specific transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts.  Each topic will be addressed using both theoretical material provided by the professor and weekly case studies with questions and solutions.

30 hours of seminars in the Winter Term.

This course is taught in the interactive lecturing format. There is no distinction between lectures and classes/seminars; there are “sessions” only, and the pedagogical approach in each session is interactive.

Weekly homework assignments.

A course pack will be distributed that includes case studies as well as additional readings such as textbook chapters, and practitioner articles.

Continuous assessment (100%)