Corporate finance syllabus

Imperial College London Business school

• Introduction to finance
  • Flow of funds
  • Financial intermediation role
  • Financial markets and economic growth
  • Basic securities
  • Size of financial markets
  • Financial crisis and organisation of financial markets
• Bond markets
  • Bond prices
  • Bond and interest rates
  • Yield curves
  • Corporate bonds
  • The money market
• Equity markets
  • Cash flows
  • Equity valuation
  • IPO and rights issue
• Valuation of the firm
  • Calculating enterprise value
  • Comparables
  • DCF Dilemna
• The history of equity markets
  • Returns management
  • Indices and correlation
  • Risk and return
  • Markets efficiency
• Portfolio allocation
  • Portfolio theory
  • Principle of diversification
  • Measuring beta
  • Risk and return
• Cost of capital
  • Estimating the cost of capital, equity and debt
  • Project valuation
• Capital structure
  • Modigliani and Miller's
  • Bankruptcy and financial distress
  • Private equity: winners and losers
• Risk management
  • Futures
  • Cash and carry arbitrage
  • Commodity hedging
  • Options
  • Option pricing modelling
  • Capital guarantee design