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To assist in forming groups, the following links are to Microsoft Word
documents containing list of enrolled students as of the end of Winter
Quarter along with their email addresses.
This page is for Professor Sapienza's Corporate Finance Course (Fin D41). It will supplement the material in the packet. It will also contain materials which were not available when the packet was copied. You should check this page occasionally. I will announce major changes and additions in class and via email. Many of the files accessible through this page are stored in Adobe Acrobat format. Click here for instructions on downloading the Adobe Acrobat reader.
Finance II is the second course in the finance sequence. Prior to taking this course you should have mastered the material in Finance I (Fin D30). By now you should understand the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), portfolio theory, and the basics of capital budgeting. Finance II will expand your knowledge of capital budgeting, will include an introduction to options, and will cover dividend policy and capital structure.
The material from Finance I is obviously a prerequisite for this course.
Students with previous academic experience in Finance may choose to waive
out of Finance I. The following link describes in detail waiver
instructions. In addition you should have mastered the material from
Financial Accounting (Accounting D30), Microeconomics (Microeconomics D30),
Statistics (Decision Science D34, D37, or equivalent). You should read
the first
class assignment prior to coming to the first class.
Please, check the Calendar often for class schedule, due dates and material for each class. In addition, the Discussion Group will be used for communicating information among the students in the class. If you have questions which may be of general interest, I would appreciate you posting them to this discussion group. If you want to comment on, answer, correct, or expand upon a posting to this discussion group, please feel free. The more people who read and post to the discussion group, the more you will get out of it. I will monitor the discussion group. If you send me a question, which I feel would be of broad interest, I will post it.
Finally, the next two links describe in detail the codes of etiquette and honor that all participants in D41 are expected to follow. More on how these agreements apply to D41 will be discussed on the first day of class
Classroom
etiquette
Honor
code
Bloomberg
Financial Information. Bloomberg provides current information on equity,
bond, and foreign exchange
markets.
The Economist.
A non-academic publication with an excellent understanding of modern finance.
Federal
Reserve Economic Data (FRED). FRED provides historical U.S. economic
and financial data, including daily
U.S. interest rates, monetary and business
indicators, exchange rates, and regional economic data
IPO.com.
Is this the future of raising equity capital. This site gives investors
news and information on current initial public offering (IPOs). This is
the first time a firm issues equity to the public.
JP Morgan
& Company JP Morgan has been very involved in risk management techniques.
Their RiskMetrics is an
approach to measuring a firm's or portfolio's
'value at risk. This site also has a wide selection of market data.
Securities and
Exchange Commission. This is the Federal agency which regulates securities
issues and many (but not all) of the financial markets in the U.S.
This link will lead you to the SEC's EDGAR database. This database contains
many of the documents filed with the SEC. The SEC also posts a description
of the forms it requires firms to file.
Finance
from the WWW Virtual Library. This is a collection of web links for
finance. It has groups of links for finance
researcher, finance educators, finance students,
and finance practitioners. It probably isn't exhaustive, but it is large.
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Last Revised: May 27, 1999