Description

Course Overview:

The objective of the course is to enable the students to acquire multidimensional skills as to equip them to comprehend the process of strategy formulation and thereby helping them to take financial and investment decisions. The course covers both internal and external corporate growth strategies: advanced capital budgeting techniques, risk management strategies, valuation of capital projects as real options, merger and acquisition strategies, corporate diversification and divestitures. Further topics include stock valuation along with recognition of growth opportunities, relation between growth opportunities and free cash flow and agency cost of free cash flow, incentive-aligning compensation including executive stock options, corporate governance and ethical principles in finance industry.

Course Objectives:

1. Investment Decisions in Risk and uncertainty
2. Strategic investment decisions
3. Investment Appraisal Techniques
4. Financing Decisions