This note covers the following topics: Accounting Statements and Cash Flow, Financial Markets and
NPV First Principles of Finance, Net Present Value, How to Value Bonds and
Stocks, Some Alternative Investment Rules, NPV and Capital Budgeting, Strategy
and Analysis in Using NPV, Capital Market Theory, Return and Risk CAPM, An
Alternative View of Risk and Return APT, Risk, cost of Capital, and Capital
Budget, Corporate financing Decisions and Efficient Capital Market, Long Term
Financing An Introduction, Capital Structure Basic Concepts, Capital Structure:
Limits to the Use of Debt, Valuation and Capital Budgeting for the Levered Firm,
Dividend policy, Issuing Securities to the Public, Long Term Debt, Leasing,
Options and Corporate Finance Basic Concepts, Options and Corporate Finance:
Extensions and Applications, Warrants and Convertibles, Derivatives and Hedging
Risk, Mergers and acquisitions and Financial Distress.
This note describes the following topics: Nature
and Scope of Financial Management, The Value of Money, Ratio Analysis, Cost of
Capital, Capital Structure Decisions and Leverages.
Author(s): Prof. Suhas Pednekar, Ravindra D.
Kulkarni and Prakash Mahanwar
Finance is a
broad term that is used regarding the management, creation, and study of money
and investment. This PDF book covers the following topics related to Business
Finance : Introduction to Finance, Time Value of Money, Interest Rates, Bonds,
Bankruptcy and Reoganization, Financial Statements and Free Cash Flow, Analysis
of Financial Statements, Stock Valuation, Risk and Return, Cost of Capital,
Capital Budgeting and Evaluating Cash Flows, Project Cash Flow Estimation,
Corporate Governance.
Author(s): Tim Murray, PhD Virginia Military Institute
The aim of this note is that the students develop an understanding of
the main implications of increasing integration of the world economy. This note will be divided in two
sections. The first section will be more like a traditional lecture class and
will focus on theoretical models and empirical facts. The second section will be
more like a seminar course with presentations by students and wide discussion on
topics in international finance and international macroeconomics.
This note covers the following
topics: The First Option Trade, The Black-Scholes Equation, The Risk Neutral
World, Monte Carlo Methods, The Binomial Model, Derivative Contracts on
non-traded Assets and Real Options, Discrete Hedging, Derivative Contracts on
non-traded Assets and Real Options, Discrete Hedging, Jump Diffusion, Regime
Switching, Mean Variance Portfolio Optimization.
This lecture note explains the following topics: Modelling Financial Options,
Random Numbers, Uniform Deviates, Fibonacci Generators , Random Numbers from
Other Distributions, Normal Deviates, Sequences of Numbers with Low Discrepancy,
Monte Carlo Methods, Constructing Integrators for SDEs, Monte Carlo Methods for
European Options, Monte Carlo Methods for American Options, Finite-Difference
Methods for American Vanilla Options.
This note introduces key
concepts and issues in finance. Topics covered includes: From claims to value,
Value for Issuers, Exchange mechanisms, Modern Finance, Asymmetric Information,
Pricing riskless Bonds, Risk, The Portfolio approach to risk, Market efficiency,
Intermediaries and assets, Options and Hedging, Government and financial
structure.
This course introduces ideas and
techniques that form the foundations of theory of finance. Topics covered
includes: Individual decision making, Game Theory, Economics of Information,
Market Microstructure, Choice Under Uncertainty, Equilibrium and Efficiency,
Financial Markets, Mean Variance Analysis.
This book covers the following
topics: What Society does for the Laborer, Capital and Labor, Starvation
Wages, One Dollar, Value cannot be given by Government, The Value of Paper
Money, Why has the Greenback any Value, The Mystery of Money, Evil of a
Depreciating Currency: A Few Facts, The Lessons of History, The Public Faith,
The Cause and the Remedy.
This course note introduces the core theory of modern financial
economics and financial management, with a focus on capital markets and
investments. Topics include functions of capital markets and financial
intermediaries, asset valuation, fixed-income securities, common stocks,
capital budgeting, diversification and portfolio selection, equilibrium
pricing of risky assets, the theory of efficient markets, and an introduction
to derivatives and options.
The
objective of this lecture note is to learn the financial tools needed to make
good business decisions and presents the basic insights of corporate finance
theory, but emphasizes the application of theory to real business decisions.
Author(s): Prof. Dirk Jenter and Prof. Katharina Lewellen