Welcome to Corporate Finance. This course introduces you to finance concepts and essential tools used in corporate finance. You will examine the corporate financial environment and its impact on decision-making, introductory finance concepts (including the time value of money, investing and risk management) and distribution of earnings. In addition, you will look at capital-budgeting techniques and short-, medium-, and long-term financing decisions, financial analysis, and valuation. This course will require extensive use of a financial calculator. If you haven’t used one before, you should become familiar with it before working through the course material.

Topics introduced in FN1 include the following:

• introduction to corporate finance
  

• analysis of the financial environment and its components

• security valuation

• capital budgeting

• risk and return
  

• long-term financing

• capital structure
  

1.Have the deep insight into the nature of finance. 

2.Develop an understanding of what is corporate finance and what kind of role should a

financial executive play.

3.Be able to use techniques of valuing projects to make optimal investment decision as a role of  

financial executive.

4.Understand and master the concepts of the capital structure, and apply in the finance decision 

as a role of financial executive.

5.Understand and master the principles of the working capital management, and apply in the 

working capital decision as a role of financial executive.

6.Be able to make financial planning. 

7.Understand the responsibility as a financial executive in ethical issues.

•  平时（30%）

      - 课堂纪律及表现，出勤率（10%）

      - 平时作业 + 线上平台活跃度（20%）

•  期中（20%）：外教考试

•  期末测试（50%）

The prerequisites for this course are the following courses or equivalent postsecondary course credits:

• Introductory Financial Accounting

• Introductory Management Accounting

• Economics

• Statistics

You are expected to have a sound understanding of basic mathematics and their application in the business context. The required level of knowledge can be gained from any standard business mathematics text.You are expected to have basic competence with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Excel.

1. Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, Jonathan Berk, Peter DeMarzo, Jarrad Harford, Pearson, Fourth Edition

2. CPA Canada, Lesson Notes