Finance

Teacher(s)

Nguyen Anh (compensates Platten Isabelle); Platten Isabelle;

Language

French

Main themes

- The law of one price
- The time value of money
- Interest rates
- Debt and loans
- Financial statement analysis
- Investment decision rules
- Fundamentals of capital budgeting
- Bond valuation
- Stock valuation
- Risk-return relationship
- Diversification
- Portfolio theory & CAPM
- The cost of capital
- Valuation and financial modeling for investment projects

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	- Understand and master the basics of financial management - Apply valuation technics to standard financial operations - Understand the fundamentals of capital budgeting - Implement the various investment rules and selection criteria to projects

Content

• The law of one price
• Time value of money
  
• Annuities
  
• Interest rates
  
• Loans
  
• Selection criteria for investment
  
• How to choose among several projects
  
• Cash-flow determination for a project
  
• Capital budgeting
  
• Bonds
  
• Stocks
  
• Risk
  
• The cost of capital
  
• Capital budgeting - conclusion
  

Teaching methods

• MOOC
• Flipped classroom
• Exercises

Evaluation methods

Within this course, students' skills assessment is twofold :
• Ongoing formative assessment with homeworks (quiz and exercices) during the semester (0% of the final grade)
• Written exam with open questions in session (100% of the final grade)

Other information

    
Flipped classroom implies students seeing the material beforehand (such as viewing a lecture online) prior to the in-class discussion of the material.

Online resources

https://www.edx.org/course/les-principes-de-la-finance-0

Bibliography

• Finance d’entreprise, 3ème édition, Berk &  DeMarzo, Pearson France 2014.
• Principles of Corporate Finance: Global Edition,  11ème édition, Brealey, Myers & Allen, McGraw-Hill 2014.

Faculty or entity

CLSM