Recent Classes Taught
Teaching
Courses in corporate finance, business investment, valuation, and international finance at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Business Investment and Valuation
How businesses evaluate investment opportunities and deploy capital to enhance firm value. Topics include incremental cash flow identification, discounted cash flow techniques, real options analysis, leverage, cost of capital, and corporate governance.
Corporate Financial Policy
A review of basic valuation methods and the resources behind them, followed by advanced techniques such as APV, multiples, and capital cash flow, applied to particular corporate financial decisions.
International Finance
The economic determinants of exchange rates and the financing problems faced by multinational corporations and international portfolio managers. Topics include forward, futures, and options markets in foreign currency, purchasing power parity, interest rate parity, covered interest arbitrage, and international risk management.
Business Investment
Evaluation of fixed asset investment opportunities, covering cash flow analysis, estimation of required rates of return, risk analysis, and long-term investment analysis.
Business Financing
The theory and practice of how businesses raise funds: long-term capital markets and sources of financing, optimal capital structure, dividend policy, and a range of long-term financing problems.