Course Resources for FIN 532 Corporate Finance Strategy

Spring, 2002. Professor Lamoureux

Questions pertinent to preparing for the final.

• Administrative Course Materials:
  • Course Syllabus
  • Introductory Remarks
  • Course Schedule
  • Packet Materials
  • Study Guide For Final Exam.

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Access PriceWaterHouse Coopers EdgarScan. (Handy interface to SEC Data.)
• Power Point Slides, Course Datasets and Excel Worksheets:
  • Material related to the Free Cash Flow Valuation Process:
    • Preliminary Anheuser-Busch Valuation Model.
    • Introductory Notes on Managing Value.
    • Slides on the Valuation Process.
    • General Notes.
    • Format of Investment Banker Presentation of Merger
  • Material Related to Financing:
    • Spreadsheet demonstrating capital structure irrelevance.
    • Relaxing M&M's assumptions to find interior solution to optimal capital structure.
    • Notes on Raising External Capital.
    • The mechanics of optimal capital structure.
    • Slides on Banks and Corporate Finance.
    • Some historical notes.
    • Relationships and Finance.
  • Material Related to Corporate Process:
    • Lecture notes on Incentives and Corporate Politics.
    • Incentives for Value Maximization.
    • The Captital Budgeting Process.
    • Introductory Notes On Organizational Design.
    • Notes on Organizational Form.
  • Material Related to Real Options:
    • Spreadsheet that demonstrates how the binomial tree generates terminal distributions.
    • General material on option valuation.
    • Notes on the value of waiting.
    • Example of Waiting.
    • More on Real Options.
    • The Exit Option.
    • The Option to Expand.