This document provides an overview of the Finance 254 course on corporate financial management. The first day agenda covers an administrative overview, the role of financial managers and goals of firms. Required materials include the textbook and financial calculator. Exam dates are provided. The document outlines different forms of business organizations like sole proprietorships, partnerships and corporations. It also summarizes key concepts like the role of financial managers is to raise cash for investments and maximize shareholder wealth.
2. The First Day Agenda
Course Administrative Overview
Top 10 List
What is corporate finance and the
role of the financial manager.
The goal of the firm
Careers in Finance
Different forms of Business
Organizations. (Discussion section
this week.)
3. Required Class Materials
Textbook: Fundamentals of Corporate
Finance, 4th Edition by Brealey, Myers
& Marcus and GradeSummit packaged
with the book.
Finance 254 Syllabus Book
Texas Instruments BAII Plus financial
calculator
Optional: Study Guide for
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance.
4. Important Internet Addresses
Course Website:
http://www.business.uiuc.edu/~mdyer
/fin254.htm
Syllabus and Announcements
Powerpoint Lecture Note files on Course
Schedule and Lecture Notes Page.
Links to Internet Class Assignments
(Assignments page)
Textbook Website:
http://www.mhhe.com/bmm4e
Select Student Edition from Online Learning
Center box.
6. The Nitty Gritty
Grade Breakdown (500 total points)
400 points from four 90-minute exams: 100 points each
(with optional final)
25 multiple choice questions worth 4 points each roughly half
conceptual questions (no calculations) and half problems.
100 points from best 10 out of 12 GradeSummit internet
assignments.
Due dates (9 PM almost every Sunday) and link to
GradeSummit Assignments posted on Assignments Page of
course website
Each assignment has 10 multiple choice questions.
You will have up to 3 attempts at a given assignment (multiple
versions of each assignment), only your best score counts. 3
hour time limit per session.
GradeSummit logon details and procedures discussed in detail
during this weeks discussion section.
7. Exam Dates
Exam 1: Monday, Sept. 22 (Chapters 1-4)
6:30-8 pm, Conflict 4-5:30 pm
Exam 2: Monday, Oct. 20 (Chapters 5-8)
6:30-8 pm, Conflict 4-5:30 pm
Exam 3: Monday, Nov. 10 (Chapters 10-13)
6:30-8 pm, Conflict 4-5:30 pm
Exam 4: Monday, Dec. 8 (Chapters 15-18)
Optional final exam dates: (The optional
final is comprehensive and can be used to
replace an exam that you missed or we
count your best 4 exam scores if you take
all 5 exams.)
Monday, Dec. 15: 9-10:30 am
Thursday, Dec. 18: 1:30-3 pm
8. Miscellaneous Items
Textbook problems assigned in
syllabus will not be graded, but you
are responsible for knowing how to do
them.
Solutions to all assigned textbook
problems are in the back of syllabus.
Helpful textbook items: online
chapter objectives and questions at
textbook website.
11. What is Corporate Finance?
In the simplest sense: involves what
assets a company should invest in
and how to raise cash to finance
these investments in order to
maintain and maximize economic
value.
Where does a company get cash to
run and finance its business? (Details
in Chapter 2)
12. The Role of The Financial Manager
Capital Budgeting (Investment)
Decision
Buy real assets that are worth more than
they cost
13. The Role of The Financial Manager
Capital Budgeting
Tangible Assets
Euro Disney
@ $2 billion
Nontangible Assets
Gillettes Mach3 Razor
@ $300 million
14. The Role of the Financial
Manager
The Financing Decision: how to raise the
money (long-term capital) that is invested
in new assets
Financing Options:
Debt: bank loans, debt securities (bonds)
Equity: retaining company earnings, sell new
stock.
Heres how this whole corporate finance
process works:
15. Financial
Manager
Firm's
operations Investors
(1) Cash raised from investors
(1)
(2) Cash invested in firm
(2)
(3) Cash generated by operations
(3)
(4a) Cash reinvested
(4a)
(4b) Cash returned to investors
(4b)
The Role of The Financial Manager
Real assets
16. Goal of the Firm
The primary goal is shareholder
wealth maximization.
This means:
Maximizing Firm Value (market price per
share of common stock x number of
outstanding shares)
Maximizing stock price.
17. Goal of The Corporation Issues
Shareholders desire wealth
maximization
Do managers maximize shareholder
wealth?
Mangers have many constituencies
stakeholders
Agency Problems represent the
conflict of interest between
management and owners
18. Goals of The Corporation
Ethics & Management Objectives
Does value maximization justify unethical
behavior?
Enron example
WorldCom example
Arthur Andersen example
Salomon Brothers example
19. Goals of The Corporation
Agency Problem Solutions
1 - Compensation plans
2 - Board of Directors
3 - Takeovers
4 - Specialist Monitoring
5 - Auditors
20. Key Financial Decision Making
Rule
Finance is concerned with raising cash to
invest in assets that are expected to
generate future cash flows
Net Present Value (NPV) = present value of
future expected cash flows - initial outlay.
A firm that follows the practice of investing
in positive NPV assets will increase
shareholder wealth & firm value.
21. Different Finance Career
Opportunities
Corporate Finance
Investments
Banking and Financial Services
Insurance and Risk Management
Real Estate
Check out website www.careers-in-
finance.com
Also, further info in powerpoint file posted
on the Update & Announcements page of
course website.
22. Organizing a Business
Types of Business Organizations
Sole Proprietorships
Partnerships
Corporations
Hybrids
Limited Partnerships
LLP
LLC
PC
23. Sole
Proprietorship
Partnership Corporation
Who owns the
business?
The manager Partners Shareholders
Are managers
and owners
separate?
No No Usually
What is the
owners
liability?
Unlimited Unlimited Limited
Are the owner
& business
taxed
separately?
No No Yes
Organizing a Business