Corporate Finance

Course contents
 Access to intenational funding
 Perspectives of CFO, investor and debtor vs. financial (external) accounting
 Different financial systems and influence on corporation's capital structure
and on instruments for corporate finance
 Review of capital budgeting
o Time value of money and interest rates (perpetuities, annuities, interest
rates and inflation)
o Investment appraisal techniques (present value, net present value,
internal rate of return)
 Instruments of equity, mezzanine and debt finance in market-based and
bank-based financial systems
 Risk & return
o Modern portfolio theory (MPT) & capital asset pricing model (CAPM)
o Portfolio selection: goal, mechanics, and applications
o Valuing capital assets: bonds and share pricing, introduction in company
valuation, yield calculation
o Futures - overview, margin settlement, hedging