FIN 505 - Advanced Financial Management and Policy

3 Credit(s)

This course provides a general survey of the body of knowledge of corporate finance. Corporate finance is an area of finance dealing with the financial decisions corporations make and the tools and analyses used to make these decisions. The primary goal of corporate finance is to enhance corporate value and shareholder’s wealth. To achieve this goal, financial managers must make important decisions such as project evaluations and investment decisions, financing decisions and dividend decisions. A solid understanding of the financial markets is also essential. The main concepts and principles in the study of corporate finance are also applicable to the financial problems of all kinds of firms. Basic accounting and statistics are essential to understanding the principles developed in this course.