This course analyzes the financial investment decision-making process of individuals and firms. It seeks to provide students with an understanding of Present-value techniques and its application to Capital Budgeting decision-rules, Bonds and Stocks; Capital Structure and the valuation of a Firm; Working Capital; and the application of these basic Corporate Finance pillars to the real world.

There are two main underlying objectives for this course. First, to ensure each student understands the basic concepts and techniques of the investment and financing sides of modern finance, and can apply them to solve finance problems. The second is that students see that the financial models they are learning are important and used in the day-to-day real world of finance.