Jun 03, 2025  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

MGF 641LEC - Financial Policies and Strategies


This course provides an in-depth treatment of corporate finance concepts for all finance majors, with the purpose of furthering students’ understanding of major corporate financial policies and decisions. These decisions include choosing between competing investment opportunities, measuring risk and return, how to value a business, how much debt to issue, how much equity to issue, what level of dividend to payout, and incentive structure for managers, and so on. The course starts with a discussion on corporate financial goals and corporate governance issues. It then proceeds to cover topics that center on corporate investment decisions, corporate valuation, and capital structure issues.

Credits: 3

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring