This introductory course is to study the theoretical and practical backgrounds of financial management. This course will help students to get the background knowledge of corporate finance management, which will be necessary for the future business administration and management studies.

Evaluation:
* Class participation 10%
* Quizzes 20%
* Homework 20%
* Midterm test 25%
* Final test 25%

Course Outline:
Week Date Topic Readings Note
1 2016/9/13 Introduction (B) Ch.1, Lecture 1 　
2 2016/9/20 Introduction to corporate finance (B) Ch.1, Lecture 1 　
3 2016/9/27 Financial statement analysis (B) Ch 2, Lecture 2 　
4 2016/10/4 Time value of money (B) Ch.4, Lecture 3 　
5 2016/10/11 Application of TVM (B) Ch.4, Lecture 3 1st quiz
6 2016/10/18 Bond pricing (B) Ch 6, Lecture 4 　
7 2016/10/25 Stock pricing (B) Ch.9, Lecture 5 　
8 2016/11/1 Investment decision rules (B) Ch.7, Lecture 6 　
9 2016/11/8 Midterm test 　 　
10 2016/11/15 Capital budgeting analysis (B) Ch.8, Lecture 7 　
11 2016/11/22 Cost of capital (B) Ch.12, Lecture 8 　
12 2016/11/29 Capital structure (B) Ch.14, Lecture 9 　
13 2016/12/6 Raising capital (B) Ch.23, Lecture 10 2nd quiz
14 2016/12/13 Dividend policy (B) Ch.17, Lecture 11 　
15 2016/12/20 Merger and Acquisition (B) Ch.28, Lecture 12 　
16 2016/12/27 Merger and Acquisition: a case study (B) Ch.28, Lecture 12 　
17 2017/1/3 Corporate governance (B) Ch.29, Lecture 13 　
18 2017/1/10 Final examination 　 　
(B): Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo, Corporate Finance: Global Edition 3/e, Pearson.

Team work assignments:
1. Guess who, Students are asked to identify five companies based on common size financial statements and financial ratios.
2. ECB: Each student survey on information of ECB and provide own comments.
3. Capital budgeting project: Discussing a mini case on project evaluation.
4. Stock repurchase in Taiwan.
5. Corporate control: Enron scandal.


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