After successful completion of the course, students are able to analyze and value most important types of financing, like e.g. overdraft facilities, long term bank, bonds, and loans, equity financing instruments, and based on that to make optimal financing decisions.
Furthermore students will be able to use capital market models, e.g. to determine capital costs, and to model the relationship between capital structure and company value.
Project and Enterprise Financing - what is similar, what is different
Credit Financing
Bond Financing
Equity Financing - Overview
Financial Leverage and Capital Structure
Public Equity Financing - Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)
Presentation of main teaching topics;
Calculation and discussion of exercises;
Discussion of cases
The first session is scheduled for Monday, March 1st, 2021, 18:00 – 18:30, via Zoom (discussion of course organization). The Zoom meeting login information are available in “PEF Outline (2021).pdf” (see TISS for downloading).
The TUWEL course with all materials (slides, 40+ videos (for most slides), exercises, take home exams) will be available from March 1st, 2021, onwards. The document “PEF Outline (2021).pdf” (see TISS for downloading) provides especially information about the schedule (including Zoom login data) and the assessment. All sessions and tests will take place in Zoom.
Test 1 (topics of the examination: written, solving of short case examples, achievable number of points: 40)
Test 2 (topics of the examination: written, solving of short case examples, achievable number of points: 40)
Several Take Home Exams (Solving of a case example and small exercises, in total achievable number of points: 20)