Università Roma Tre

The most important topics of the course are as follows:

1. Business forms, separation between ownership and control, stock markets
2. Annual reports, balance sheet analysis and financial decision making
3. Net present value, the separation between consumption and investment, the law of one price, arbitrage
4. Time value of money, interest rates, cost of capital
5. Capital budgeting: cash flow estimation, DCF method, IRR, and alternative methods for valuing investments
6. Methods for estimating stock price
7. Risk measures: variance, volatility, covariance, correlation
8. Mean-variance models, portfolio diversification and the risk-return relationship
9. Capital asset pricing model (CAPM), beta and cost of capital
10. Capital structure and firm value in perfect markets (Modigliani and Miller theorems)
11. Debt and taxes
12. Bankruptcy costs, agency costs of debt and information asymmetries
13. Empirical evidence on capital structure choices
14. Weighted average cost of capital and adjusted present value (APV)
15. Capital budgeting with different capital structure policies

− Berk, J., DeMarzo, P., 2018. Finanza aziendale 1 - Fondamenti, Pearson, 4th edition, Chapters 1, 2, 3 (with Appendix), 4 (with Appendix), 5 (excluding Appendix), 7 (with Appendix), 8 (excluding section 8.5), 9 (with Appendix), 10, 11 (excluding Appendix), 12 (excluding section 12.4, with Appendix), 14, 15, 16, 18 (excluding section 18.4, with Appendix).