UNIVERSITY of DELAWARE
College of Business and Economics
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
Finance 851 - Corporate Financial Analysis
Spring 1998
 
Class Time: 

Location: 

 5:30-6:45 M,W 

125 MBNA 
Professor: Dan Deli 
Office: Purnell 320 
Phone: 831-1812 
finance dept: 831-1015 
e-mail: delid@college.be.udel.edu 
Office hours: 6:00-7:00 Tues. 
Overview / Objectives

Finance 851 is the second corporate finance class for MBAs. The course is intended to give you a framework for understanding the determinants of corporate investment, financing, leasing, insurance, and dividend policies. As such, my focus will tend not be on the memorization of institutional detail or results from academic research, but rather, on developing your ability to think critically about issues related to corporate financial policy.

Required Text

 

Grading / Exams

Your grade will be determined as follows:
 
Class Participation 10%
Midterm  40%
Final 50%
100% 
 
Class Participation Grading:
Active class participation is an important part of Finance 851.  The goal of class participation is not to see who can "come up with the answer the teacher is looking for," but rather, to learn from one another.  We each bring different experiences and backgrounds to the class.  We each have different ways of thinking about the sorts of issues we'll be addressing.  My goal, as I said above, is to expose you to a particular framework for thinking about those issues.  It is not "bad" for you to subscribe to a different way of thinking (i.e., you wont be graded down).  The only "bad" outcome is if a lack of participation leads us to miss an opportunity to learn from one another.
 

TOPICS

INTRODUCTION

CAPITAL STRUCTURE WITH FIXED INVESTMENT POLICY THEORY OF AGENCY WITH CAPITAL STRUCTURE APPLICATIONS CORPORATE LEASING POLICY CORPORATE HEDGING POLICY CORPORATE DIVIDEND POLICY CORPORATE FINANCING