WMBA6070 - Managerial Finance

Course Description

Today's companies are challenged to constantly do more with less. Effective managers know how to deploy scarce financial resources in ways to achieve optimum returns on these resources. Students will discover the latest financial tools and analytic methods to strengthen the capital investment decision-making process. Students will use critical-thinking skills to apply and, at times, challenge traditional financial theory, while balancing various stakeholder interests in the financial decision-making process. Students will examine a range of contemporary issues and techniques relevant to sound and ethical financial decision making. Topics include the role of stakeholders in optimizing firm value, assessment of an organization's financial position, effective communication of financial information and goals, the analysis of risk and reward in financial decision making, the impact of financial decisions and capital structure on firm value, the role of ethics in financial decision making, and the evaluation of financial decisions to enter international markets.