Corporate finance

Teacher : André Cabannes

Syllabus

Lesson 1 : Introduction to firms, Accounting, Investments, Finance
Lesson 2 : Recording transactions, Income statement, Balance sheet (detailed exercise)
Lesson 3 : Financial analysis, Ratios
Lesson 4 : Cash flow statements, Real data from Yahoo finance
Lesson 5 : Cost accounting, Unit costs, Results per division, Planning and budgeting
Lesson 6 : Probability model, Random variables, Expectation
Lesson 7 : Distribution, Density of probability, Histogram, Variance, Sytematic risk and Return of a security
Lesson 8 : Present value, Opportunity cost of capital, Discounting, IRR (recap of list of steps)
Lesson 9 : Introduction to Capital Asset Pricing Model
Lesson 10 : Introduction to Capital Asset Pricing Model (cont'd)
Lesson 11 : Bonds
Lesson 12 : Students presentations (groups 2007-2008)
Lesson 13 : Students presentations

5, 6 and 7 November, 2007

An interesting rumor about Skype

Dale Carnegie Advice for presentation

Final examination : last year exam, and recommendations

Correction of the November 2006 exam, taken by the Mastere's students.

Correction of the October 2007 mid-term examt taken by the Second year students

Correction of the December 2007 exam taken by the Mastere's students. (Results)

Correction of the December 2007 exam taken by the 2nd year students

Appendix : Economic chronicles