The course alternatively known as corporate finance is all about taking decisions that centre around shareholders’ / stockholders’ value creation and enhancement irrespective of type of venture. So valuation is the foundation or central theme of the course in the backdrop of firms or corporations as going concern. The course introduces time value of money, future and present value of cash flow, then proceeds to risk and return measurement and discusses some fundamental models of risk measurement. The course provides basic input for share and bond valuation, capital budgeting and how capital budgeting decisions sustain and enhance value, how to compute cost of capital, theories and issues of capital structure decision, dividend decision and finally ends with some advanced aspects of financing and valuation decision.
Learning Outcome : At the end of the course the students are expected to –
· Apply time value concept to evaluate project, stock and plain vanilla fixed income securities
· Compute return, CAGR, risk return trade off and quantify risk in portfolio context applying CAPM model
· Compute weighted average cost of capital
· Evaluate capital budgeting project through DCF and other techniques
· Understand Capital structure and dividend decision (basics) in valuation context in the backdrop of different theories.
Contents
Time Value of Money --Annuity, perpetuity, Loan amortization, DCF -Basic
1,5 and 6
Stand Alone Risk
Risk Return of Portfolio
CAPM and SML
EMH
Chapter 7 and 8 of the reference book.
Free cash flow
APV
Cash flow to equity
References
Ø Text : Fundamental of Corporate Finance by Ross, Westerfield and Jordon (9th Indian Edition) –
Ø Important Websites : i) www.bseindia.com
ii) www.nseindia.com
iii) www.moneycontrol.com
Ø Reading of Financial dailies is a must to develop conceptual background and awareness as to working of the world of finance. Ø NOTE: PLEASE CAREFULLY NOTE THE FOLLOWING ü The course outline is nothing but a broad framework. Certain aspects will be covered with greater details for which the students have to refer to reference books and other materials. ü Regular class attendance is prerequisite to build up conceptual clarity and understanding as to how the corporate financial policy, financial market and institutions work. ü Students are expected to display proper conduct and demeanor inside the class lack of which shall result in deduction of class participation marks, expulsion and so on. ü The course participants must bring scientific calculators in the class. Carrying text book will be a plus. ü There will be ‘zero tolerance’ for unfair means during examination and plagiarism of any sort. ü No computers and mobile phone in class please. Created By: Alora Kar on 01/03/2017 at 09:24 AM Category: BM-I 2016-18 T-III Doctype: Document