| Course: | Corporate Finance | ||||||||||||||||
| Year: | 3 |
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| Semester: | 2º Semestre |
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| Curricular Unit: | ISEG - Gestão |
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| ECTS: | 6.0 |
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| Regent: | Eduardo Barbosa do Couto |
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| Objectives: | This course is designed to introduce students to the principles and concepts of financial statement analysis. The main objectives of the course are to: * Study principles and techniques of financial analysis * Understand how the financial policy of a corporation affects its financial performance * Analyze and discuss practical cases using financial analysis principles and techniques. The specific objectives are to: * Discuss the various financial statements and the links between them (Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement). * Analyze the financial aspects of a firm: Profitability; Risk and Financial Equilibrium. * Introduce the basics of Pricing Financial assets. |
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| Contents: | 1. The financial statements and concepts 2. Financial analysis techniques 3. Evaluating performance with financial ratios 4. Financial equilibrium analysis 5. Break-even and Leverage Analysis 6. Cash-flow analysis 7. Introduction to portfolio theory 8. The capital asset pricing model and APT 9. Comparative financial analysis between two Portuguese Sports Associations |
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| Evaluation: | The unit will be taught using a combination of theoretical and practical lectures. Students will be encouraged to actively participate in the realization of class exercises and problems. Continuous assessment in class will have a weight of 40% in the final student´ s classification, including midterm exams (20%) and group work (20%). The end-semester exam will account for 60% of the course grade and required a minimum score of 8 points out of 20. If the student´s classification is higher than 17 points, an oral exam is required. | ||||||||||||||||
| Bibliography: | * Neves, J. (2000) Análise Financeira I: Técnicas Fundamentais, 12ª Edição, Texto Editora, Lisboa * Damodaran, A. (2001) Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice, 2ª Edição, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. * Brealey, R. & Myers, S. (2003) Principles of Corporate Finance, 7ª Edição, McGraw Hill * Mayes, T. & Shank, T. (1996), Financial Analysis with Microsoft Excel, 1ª Edição, The Dresden Press. * Directrizes Contabilísticas Nacionais |
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