Finance 314 – Corporate Financial Management
Fall 2014
Department of Accounting & Finance
California State University, San Bernardino
Professor: Dr. Taewon Yang
Email:
taewon@csusb.edu
Tel:
Office:
Class time & location:
Office hours: 4:55 - 5:55 pm on T and Th
909-537-5784
JB 427
1. Required Textbook
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, Standard Edition, by Ross, Westfield, and Jordan, 10th Edition,
McGraw-Hill. Lecture notes are posted on the web (ftp://139.182.185.210/Yang)
2. Prerequisite & Enrollment
Acct 211 and 212 and Finance 313
3. Course Objective and Description
This is a required course for all business majors and it provides students with an understanding of
financial management in corporate environment. Topics include capital budgeting, sources and
forms of long-term financing, financial structure, cost of capital, equity management and mergers
and acquisitions.
4. Examinations and Grading:
a.
There will be four in-class examinations including the final examination.
b.
There are no make-up examinations. Absence from a scheduled examination without
approval of the instructor and a valid written excuse will result in a grade of zero.
Approval to be absent from an examination will be granted only in the case of extreme
personal emergency. If approval is granted by the instructor, the student has to take the
exam on the other day. To pass the course, students should take all four examinations on
the scheduled dates. Missing one exam will result in failure in this course.
c.
The examination will be closed-book and based on assigned readings, lectures, and
homework problems.
d.
Calculator may be used during examinations.
e.
Grading for the course will be as follows:
Examination #1:100 points
Examination #2:100
Examination #3:100
Examination #4:100
400 points
Your Percentage= total score earned over four examination / 400.
A:
A-:
B+:
B:
B-:
C+:
95 – 100%
90 – 94%
87- 89%
84 - 86%
80 - 83%
77- 79%
C:
C-:
D+:
D:
D-:
74 -76%
70 - 73%
67- 69%
64 - 66%
60 - 63%
For example, if your percentage in this course is 85%, your grade is going to be “B”. If your
percentage is below 60%, your grade is “F”.
5. Attendance
It is vital that you attend every class session to participate in class discussion to learn the material. The
attendance would be checked. If a student does not attend more than two classes without instructors’
approvals, he or she would lose 30 point out of 400.
6. Reading & Homework
Students should complete readings prior to class. Homework will be chapter review and self-test
problems at the end of chapter and assigned problems that will be announced in class. These
homeworks and assigned questions are directly related to tests in classes.
7. Academic Honor Code
We follow university’s policy and procedures on academic honesty.
8. Students with Disabilities: If you are in need of an accommodation for a disability in order to
participate in this class, please let me know ASAP and also contact Rosie Garza in Services to
Students with Disabilities at the Palm Desert Campus in RG-209, 760-341-2883 extension 78117,
or at the San Bernardino Campus in UH-183, 909-537-5238, ssd@csusb.edu."
9. Tentative Schedule
(Schedule is subject to change)
1st week
2nd week
3rd week
4th week
5th week
6th week
7th week
8th week
9th week
10th week
Exam days
Ch 9 and Ch 10
Ch 10 and Ch 11
Ch 11 and First Test
Ch 12
Ch 13
Second test and Ch 14
Ch 15
Ch 16 and Third test
Ch 17
Ch 18
Final exam