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Rutgers Business School—Newark & New Brunswick Corporate Finance 29:390:330:H6 Spring 2019 Instructor: Yankuo Qiao Office: 1105D Office Hours: 30 minutes before class and by appointments Meeting Time: 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM Monday & Wednesday Classroom: 1 WP Room 303 Email: [email protected] McGraw-Hill Connect: https://connect.mheducation.com/class/y-qiao-section-h6 Course Overview This course provides students with an in-depth view of corporate finance. Lectures focus on theories and applications, including problem solving. Students will learn the fundamentals and acquire analytical tools necessary for sound corporate financial analysis and decision-making. Finance major students who complete the course will have the foundation with which to move on to more advanced courses and to real world problems. On balance, this course build upon the students’ knowledge base and strengthen the students’ analytical and quantitative skills. Students are expected to do a considerable amount of readings. Our learning process emphasizes problem solving, homework assignments via Connect, and a term project, which requires a strict adherence to a time line and provides grading for each assignment and for the entire semester. Some discussions in lecture involve mathematical proof and derivation of the main principles and issues covered in the relevant textbook chapters, which is to better students’ understanding and will not be tested. Academic Integrity All students are expected to know, understand and live up to the standards of academic integrity explained at http://academicintegrity.rutgers.edu/integrity.shtml. The minimum penalty for any cheating in an exam is the immediate failure of the course. The minimum penalty for any plagiarism in an assignment is a zero point for the assignment. Policy on Electronic Devices in the Classroom Students are not allowed to use the computer or other electronic devices to chat, email or surf the internet in class. Violators will be politely asked to leave the classroom. Unauthorized use of the computer or other electronic devices during an exam will be considered cheating and will result in the immediate failure of the course. Required 1. Brealey, Myers, and Allen, 2017, Principles of Corporate Finance, 12th ed, McGraw-Hill-Irwin, ISBN 978-125-9144-387, or 1259357465. 2. A financial calculator is required. Make sure you can understand the manual. I recommend the Texas Instruments BA II Plus mode l.

References 1. Wall Street Journal. 2. Ross, Westerfield and Jaffe, Corporate Finance, McGraw-Hill. 3. Brigham, Eugene, and Michael Ehrhardt, Financial Management: Theory and Practice, SouthWestern College Pub. Exams, Grading and Others Midterm Exam (20%), Mon, 07/29/2019 Comprehensive Final Exam (30%) Project (10%) Homework (35%) Class Participation (5%) Class participation is very important and can affect your grade. I will give extra credits to students who participate actively. Both exams are required. There is absolutely no make-up exam. If you are unable to take the midterm for an acceptable reason, you must obtain my prior approval. In that case, your final exam will count more heavily. No student can miss more than one exam. A student missing an exam without my prior approval will receive zero point for that exam. Topics Covered (subject to change) Module One: Value 1. Time Value of Money Chapter 2, example questions 19, 29, 33, 36, 39 2. Basic Valuation Models Chapter 3, example questions 14, 17, 28, 30 Chapter 4, example questions 18, 24, 28, 30 3. Cash Flow Analysis and Investment Decisions Chapter 5, example questions 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 13, 14 Chapter 6, example questions 14, 16, 24, 26, 27, 30 4. Financial Statements Analysis and Firm Evaluation* Module Two: Risk 5. Risk and Return Analysis Chapter 7, example questions 2, 7, 10, 16, 19, 20, 21 Chapter 8, example questions 6, 9, 15, 19, 25 Chapter 9, example questions 11, 14, 18, 20, 21

Module Three: Corporate Management and Firm Policy* 6. Corporate Governance Chapter 1-4, Chapter 31-5 7. Dividend Policy Chapter 16, example questions 2, 5, 8, 17, 20, 21 8. Capital Structure Chapter 17, example questions 5, 11, 12, 21 9. Mergers and Restructuring Chapter 31, example questions 1, 3, 4, 5, 12 Note that: * denotes chapters that are optional and will be covered if time permitting....