財務管理個案研討
Instructor：Mia Twu
Room：Business School 1017
Required text：
Harvard Business School cases
This is a course aimed to get students familiar with financial management by a
participant-centered method. It will cover all the major topics of corporate finance,
including working capital management, capital budgeting, capital structure, capital
restructuring, external financing, risk management, corporate governance, etc. In the
class, students are the key players in finding key questions and giving adequate
answers. My role will be assisting students in going through the process.
Students are required to separate into groups. In every week, a specific group is
scheduled to do the presentation of the assigned case at the beginning of the class and
hand in its complete write-up. The presentation time should be approximately 50
minutes. The other groups have to hand in a write-up which is no more than 2-page
(plus appendices with spreadsheet printouts, etc ) for each case. For the remaining 100
minutes, I will lead students in discussing the case.
Course requirements:
1. Students are supposed to attend every class unless for some burning reasons.
Any student will receive a fail grade automatically if he/she skip classes
equal to or more than four times.
2. Each student is required to pick up a fixed seat and turns in a picture for
grading purpose.
3. Laptops are not suggested to be used unless showing some spread sheets.
4. At the end of each class, students will be graded according to his/her
participation performance (such as how many times he/she presents his/her
opinions and the quality of the opinion).
5. There are two term exams. Each will cover what we discussed in the classes
or a brief case.
Grading:
Reports
Participation
Term exams
25%
25%
50%
Tentative schedule:
9/17
Introduction
9/24
Butler Lumber Company
Short-term sources of funds
10/1
BBC
Working capital management
10/8
Marriott
The cost of capital
10/15
Hansson
Capital budgeting
10/22
Air Bus
Capital budgeting
10/29
Calaveras vineyards
Valuing business
11/5
Pinkerton (A)
Valuing Business
11/12
Laura Martin
Real options
11/19
Midterm
11/26
Du Pont
Capital structure
12/3
Nantucket Nectars
Sell or Go
12/10
Massey-Ferguson Ltd
Costs of financial distress
12/17
Dividend policy at FPL
Dividend policy
12/24
MCI (1983)
Equity-linked loans
12/31
AIFS
Risk management
1/7
Marriott (A)
Financial Ethics
1/16
Final
祝各位本學期學習愉快！