FIN 464

Fall 2022 All Classes

All Classes

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Provides key building blocks necessary for many careers in finance. Designed to provide a practical approach to analyzing and interpreting complex financial statements to make decisions from a range of user perspectives, including investment banks, equity investors and commercial banks. Advanced financial analysis and forecasting will be applied through assignments and casework. There will be an emphasis on business writing skills commonly applied by finance professionals.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Credit is not given for FIN 464 and FIN 490 CRNs 57268 and 57353. Prerequisite: ACCY 201. Priority given to finance majors.

FIN 464 class schedule data for fall 2022
CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
76751
Lecture-Discussion
B1
11:00AM -12:20PM
TR
236 Wohlers Hall
Vitek, M
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/22-12/07/22
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
The goal of this course is to teach students how to value virtually any business or company. More importantly, the course seeks to provide students with an understanding of the underlying factors that drive a company’s value and how those factors differ across industries. This class is designed to be hands-on and interactive. We will study a series of cases using real companies in a variety of industries. For each case, we will discuss the company’s business model, analyze its most recent financial statements, and construct a financial forecast using a discounted cash flow model. Then we will incorporate all this information to explore various financial concepts and drivers of valuation. A particular focus will be to examine how these differ across companies, industries and market environments. We will also use each case to introduce and analyze specific issues within the financial statements. These will include: common size income statements, return on invested capital and its components, working capital management and cash conversion cycles, share based compensation and fully diluted share count, convertible securities, net operating losses and deferred taxes, and acquisition accounting.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Gies College of Business. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
Not intended for Nondegree major(s) or minor(s).
76236
Lecture-Discussion
U
9:30AM -10:50AM
TR
226 Wohlers Hall
Vitek, M
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/22-12/07/22
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
The goal of this course is to teach students how to value virtually any business or company. More importantly, the course seeks to provide students with an understanding of the underlying factors that drive a company’s value and how those factors differ across industries. This class is designed to be hands-on and interactive. We will study a series of cases using real companies in a variety of industries. For each case, we will discuss the company’s business model, analyze its most recent financial statements, and construct a financial forecast using a discounted cash flow model. Then we will incorporate all this information to explore various financial concepts and drivers of valuation. A particular focus will be to examine how these differ across companies, industries and market environments. We will also use each case to introduce and analyze specific issues within the financial statements. These will include: common size income statements, return on invested capital and its components, working capital management and cash conversion cycles, share based compensation and fully diluted share count, convertible securities, net operating losses and deferred taxes, and acquisition accounting.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Gies College of Business. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
Restricted to Finance major(s).
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