Global Finance

  

Global Finance

Text: Financial Management: Theory & Practice by Brigham, Ehrnhardt 

  

Cengage

14

9781285290959

1503D

FIN630 -01

Unit 1 to 4; Topics: CHAPTER 1 An Overview of Financial Management and the Financial Environment, The Basics of Capital Budgeting: Evaluating Cash Flows, Excel Mini Case, Financial Statements, Cash Flows and Taxes, Analysis of Financial Statements, Excel Mini Case, Time Value of Money, Bond, Bond Valuation and Interest Rates,  Risk and Return, Valuation of Stocks and Corporations, Financial Options and applications in Corporate Finance, and The Cost of Capital.

Unit 5 Individual Project is: The most popular way for international expansion is for a local firm to acquire foreign companies. One of the most benefits for international expansion is global distribution capability that helps expanding the market share.

There are different implications of running a company that is within or outside of the European Union. If you were the head of a firm based in the United States, please answer the following questions, providing the rationale behind your answers:

1. Would you seek to acquire a      company within the European Union or outside of it? Why?
2. Describe the advantages and      disadvantages of the choice you made.
3. Describe the advantages and      disadvantages inherent in the option you did not choose.
4. Explain why an MNC may invest      funds in a financial market outside its own country.
5. Explain why some financial      institutions prefer to provide credit in financial markets outside their      own country. 

Please, answer the following questions:

1) What questions do you have about these assignments in Units 1 - 4? 

2) What questions do you have about the overarching Unit 5 assignment? Although not due until the end of the class, it is important that you begin planning for this project early in the course.

3) What are your initial thoughts about how you will approach this assignment? Explain.

Note: I don’t really have questions with the assignments but it is all up to you to make tis a pretty interesting discussion.

Intellipath takes a lot of time but is very useful.

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