AEM 3240 - Finance

(crosslisted)
(also PAM 5620)

Fall, spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: AEM 2100, AEM 1200, and AEM 2210, or equivalents. Enrollment limited to: priority given to CALS majors. CALS seats limited in spring semester.

R. T. Curtis.

Focuses on the mathematics of finance, valuation, and the economics of managerial decisions, corporate financial policy, risk management, and investments. Topics include the time value of money, bond and stock valuation, capital-budgeting decisions, financing alternatives, the cost of capital and the capital-structure decision, distribution policy, mergers and acquisitions and restructuring, options, forward and futures contracts, market efficiency and market anomalies, strategies of successful investors, and personal finance.