FIN5417

Description

Section information text: The goal of this course is to cultivate students' capability to structure and present a rigorous analysis that supports a recommendation to make a capital investment. Across the sectors of the economy, investors must understand how entrepreneurs navigate complex, competitive and evolving markets and regulations to ultimately determine the success of their ventures. Investors must recognize how these decisions impact available funding sources, business models, and leadership to fully evaluate the risks and opportunities and make smart capital investment decisions. Students will apply corporate and project finance skills, capital budgeting and asset valuation, and risk analysis and work as interdisciplinary teams to propose, analyze, and defend a capital investment opportunity. The class project will be structured as a consulting engagement with local small-business entrepreneurs. By the end of the semester, students will understand how to model the capital structures commonly used to fund projects; apply the capital budgeting and risk analysis techniques that professionals use to make investment decisions; apply basic project management principles and tools to the completion of complex analysis; and present and defend a recommendation to make a capital investment. Counts as Experiential Learning Requirement II or an elective for the MSF and MBA programs.