Throughout the class I will be giving you a steady stream of handouts and notes that relate to the lectures, problem sets, and case assignments. I will also make handouts available on the course web page. Previous finance textbooks. While useful, it is not essential. This course deals with the financing decisions of a corporation as opposed to the operating decisions, although in some cases, the two are inextricably linked.
Spreadsheets are useful for some of the cases.
Your first year finance courses gave you a fairly broad overview of essential topics in finance. In particular, Mark Flannery's course emphasized many of the topics that relate to this course. The cases we will discuss in class are real companies and real situations. It is then my job to further demonstrate some general points that can be drawn from each case. Your participation in case discussions will heavily influence your course participation grade.