FINA 6235 — Exploring and Understanding Value Creation, Maintenance, and Destruction
3 semester hoursGraduateLecture
Examines enhanced shareholder value as the primary goal of business and how the best managers attain that goal within ethical, legal, and regulatory guidelines. Analyzes the importance of equipping managers with a comprehensive understanding of the financial landscape, encompassing the creation and utilization of reliable information and the application of robust analytical tools. Focuses on fostering critical thinking abilities. Explores value, value creation, sustainability, and measurement by examining value investing, financial analysis and forecasting, cost of capital estimation, capital budgeting, resource allocation, capital structure, and value realization via public offerings, mergers, and acquisitions. Investigates some alternative and perhaps controversial methods used to create value. Studies interesting examples of value destruction.