37729 - Finance Laboratory

Academic Year 2022/2023

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration (cod. 0897)

Learning outcomes

The student can face the main topics in valuations, as the determination of the free cash flows, the company's cost of capital and the main multiples adopted. After analysing some some case of studies, he is able to understand how theory can be practically applied.

Course contents

Valuation 

- Time Value of Money

- Stock Valuation (Dividend Discount Model, Discounted Cash Flows)

- Bonds Valuation 

Modern Portfolio Theory

- Risk and Return

- Efficient Diversification

- The Capital Asset Pricing Model

Private Equity Valuation

  - Evaluating Start-ups

  - Venture Capitalists & Angel Investors

Readings/Bibliography

•Corporate Finance, 4 European Edition (Hillier, Ross, Westerfield, Jaffe, Jordan)

•Investments, 12 Edition (Bodie Kane Marcus)

Assessment methods

Written Exam and In - class presentations

Office hours

See the website of Lucia Milena Murgia