Course Web Page: Money & Banking (ECO 360)

Course Web Page: Corporate Finance (ECO 389)

Prof. Manoj Pradhan

Fall 2001 • Department of Economics • SUNY at Stony Brook

Exam schedule: Exam 4 - Fri, Dec. 21, 2 - 4:30 pm, Humanities 304 (same classroom)

Status Check:

Gene's notes and excel exercises for Chapters 7, 8, 9 and 10 (look in the Course Documents section) .
By late tonight: Additional notes on the Modigliani-Miller theorems

What's New:

Gene's class notes and excel exercises as a ZIP file for chapter 7,8 and 9 and a Word Document for chapter 10. School computers have unzip softwares which will automatically split this file into its components.

Contact information:

SBS N-651, 6^th Floor, Tel: (631) 632 7563, email: mpradhan@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Office Hours: M, F 1:30 – 2:10 p.m.

Course Documents:

The basics of stocks and bonds
Chapter 4: Understanding Financial Statements (Balance Sheets, Income Statements, Cash Flow Statements) and related issues
Ratio Analysis: Overheads for ratio analysis in Chapter 4
Addendum to Chapter 4: Balance Sheets for Commercial Banks
Chapter 5: Basics of Valuation (Details on equity and firm valuation)
Blueprint for Chapter 5
Chapter 6: The Basics of Risk
Blueprint for Chapter 6
More notes on Risk, Returns and asset pricing models
Chapter 7: Hurdle Rates
Blueprint for Chapter 7
Chapter 8 & 9: Investment Analysis using tools from Chapter 7
Marco's class presentation on technical analysis (using charting tools) for analyzing stocks. Link no longer available.
Chapter 10: Investment Decision Rules
Part I: "When Capital Markets Rule". From the Economist, an introduction to the theory of Corporate Finance
Part II: "Debt is Good for You". From the Economist, more on the theory of Corporate Finance
"Shareholder value". From the Economist, this excellent article reviews the core concept of shareholder value.
"Global Equity Markets". From the Economist, an excellent survey of the downturn in equity markets the world over.
Gene's class notes and excel exercises for chapters 7,8 and 9: ZIP file. NEW!!!!!
Gene's class notes for Chapter 10: Word Document

Exercises:

Exam1
Excel Exercises from Chapter 5: One Excel file contains In Practice 5.1 through 5.6 and 5.10. Other files are available for In Practice 5.7 and In Practice 5.8. What should you do? (1) Click on the numbers in the yellow cell (2) Press the F2 key (3) that should highlight cells that are used in the formula in the yellow cell (4) Understand why that particular formula and those particular cells were used (5) Try and duplicate the formula after you understand it

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