Complements in Entrepreneurial Finance
0
2018-2019
02021241
Management
Portuguese
Face-to-face
6.0
Elective
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
Recommended Prerequisites
Corporate Finance.
Teaching Methods
The course employs cases and problems as well as classroom lectures and discussions. We will make use of international as well as domestic examples. Each student will be expected to participate actively in class discussions. A written project will be due by the end of term.
Learning Outcomes
Students taking this course should expect to learn the nature and techniques of financial management in listed companies. They will gain skills financial management. They will learn, through seminar discussions and a hands-on case study on raising funds, financial restructurings and risk management. In the end the goal is to apply the state-of-the-art techniques often used by finance directors and investment bankers.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Financial Structures
Bank Financing
Market Financing
Banking and Investor Relationships
Agency problems in listed companies
Corporate restructurings - Acquisitions
Corporate restructurings - Divestitures
Corporate restructurings - Recapitalizations and Turnaround financing during credit crunches
Distributions to shareholders
Company valuations
Corporate ratings and risk management.
Managing distressed investments.
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Class participation - 10% Project - 30% Written Final Exam - 60%: 100.0%
Bibliography
Richard Brealey and Stewart Myers, Principles of Corporate Finance, McGraw-Hill, New York. (Latest edition)
Mark Largan, International Corporate and Investment Banking - Practice and Law, Institute of Financial Services,Canterbury, UK. (Latest edition).
Michael Blatz et al, Corporate restructuring, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2006