16401

FIN 190 Accounting

James Felkerson

M W 10:10 am-11:30 am

OLIN 202

This course surveys financial and managerial accounting. The concepts and methods of financial accounting following generally accepted accounting principles and the effects of alternative principles on the measurement of periodic income and financial status are covered. Recent changes in accounting methods such as those stimulated by manufacturing advances are examined, as are concerns about ethical standards. This is a required course in the Economics and Finance Program and is a prerequisite for Econ 391, Corporate Finance. Class size: 20

16394

FIN / ECON 391 Corporate Finance

James Felkerson

M 1:30 pm-3:50 pm

ALBEE 106

SSCI

Cross-listed: Economics and Finance Capital is a scarce resource. Access to capital and its efficient use are critical to business success. This course discusses how capital can be raised and allocated within corporations to the advantage of corporate shareholders. Topics include: allocation of capital for investments, measurement of the opportunity cost of capital, capital structure, cash-distribution policy, corporate restructuring, and long-term financing. At the end of course, you will know how to value a company. On the way the topics we shall cover those that are important to all managers whether or not they specialize in finance: (1) procedures for analyzing companies’ financial data to determine how efficiently they have been run; (2) methods for projecting funding needs based on principles of good working capital management; (3) rules for choosing the maximal safe, or optimal, level of debt in the structure of capital used for funding company operations; (4) figuring the costs of the various types of funds that a company uses and its weighted average cost of capital; and (5) combining all the foregoing into a methodology, to wit, discounting free cash flows and adding salvage value, for establishing a company’s value or price. Class size: 15

16390

ECON 100 A Principles of Economics

Pavlina Tcherneva

T Th 10:10 am-11:30 am

ALBEE 106

SSCI

16391

ECON 100 B Principles of Economics

Pavlina Tcherneva

T Th 11:50 am-1:10 pm

ALBEE 106

SSCI

16386

ECON 100 C Principles of Economics

James Green-Armytage

T Th 4:40 pm-6:00 pm

OLIN 202

SSCI

16384

ECON 329 Advanced Econometrics

Sanjaya DeSilva

T Th 4:40 pm-6:00 pm

ALBEE 106

SSCI