Course Description: Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
Course Description: Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
Course Description: Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
1. Course Description
Many managers assume that finance is an affair of the accounts department but the fact of the matter is
most managerial roles necessarily involves understanding financial jargon and all functional managers
should be knowledgeable enough in finance so that their domain decisions are not financially unwise
or uneconomical. This course focuses mostly on the investment decisions of a firm and takes you
through the investment decision-making aspects using cashflow analysis.
2. Learning Outcomes :
After completion of the course the participants:
I. Be capable to perform time-value computations
II. Be able to evaluate capital budgeting projects using both DCF and non-DCF methods
III. Be able to perform risk and return analysis on basic financial instruments and conversant with
basic portfolio theory
IV. Be able to value bonds and equity shares
3. Pedagogy
All the concepts will be discussed in the lecture mode followed by working out exercises and caselets.
We will try to work out some of the problems in the class and some will be handed out as assignments.
Please come to the class with a calculator capable of computing exp, nth root etc functions.
-Reference**
ii. Principles of Corporate Finance by Brealey and Myers 7/e
iii. Corporate Finance by Ross, Westerfield and Jaffe 7/e
iv. Corporate Finance by Aswath Damodaran
-Additional reading
5. Evaluation Components
Component Weightage
Quizzes 40%
Submissions 10%
End term 50%
TOTAL 100%
6. Session Details: