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040645 EK KFK CF: Financial Policy (E) (2010W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

Die Studierenden mögen beachten dass sich der EK Kurs und der VK Kurs überschneiden und unbedingt gleichzeitig besucht werden sollten.
Weiters werden Sie darauf hingewiesen dass die gebuchten Zeiten des EK und des VK für beide Kurse gelten.

Voraussetzung ist der positive Abschluss von Principles of Finance.

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 200 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 07.10. 12:30 - 16:30 Großer Hörsaal 2
  • Thursday 14.10. 12:30 - 16:30 Hörsaal 11
  • Monday 18.10. 09:00 - 14:00 Großer Hörsaal 2
  • Monday 25.10. 10:00 - 14:00 Großer Hörsaal 2
  • Thursday 28.10. 12:30 - 17:00 Hörsaal 11
  • Wednesday 01.12. 11:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 4

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Part I.: Dividend Policy
o Irrelevance of dividend policy in perfect capital markets
o Dividends and taxes
o Dividends and transactions costs
o Dividends and asymmetric information
Part II.: Capital Structure
o Irrelevance of capital structure in perfect capital markets
o Capital structure and taxes
o Capital structure and asymmetric information
+ Signalling
+ Conflicts of interest between equityholders and bondholders
+ Conflicts of interest between managers and the corporation
o Capital structure and bankruptcy
o Recent advances in capital structure theory
Part III.: Risk Management
o Risk management and corporate strategy
o The practice of hedging
o Interest rate risk management

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

To provide a conceptual framework, within which dividend policy, capital structure and corporate risk management can be analysed.
o What are the real tradeoffs when choosing a dividend policy and/or a capital structure?
o What are some of the fallacies when evaluating dividend and capital structure policy?
o What are the most important theories?

Examination topics

Reading list

Mark Grinblatt and Sheridan Titman, Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy, McGraw Hill, 1998, 2nd edition.

Brealy and Myers, Principles of Corporate Finance, McGraw Hill, 2002, 7th edition.

Association in the course directory

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