Finance 3101: Financial Management

Syllabus (Spring 2013)

Section: 101 Time/Room: TR 12:30 P.M. – 1:50 P.M. / 208 Ambler Learning Ctr. Course Coordinator: Dr. Howard Keen (“DRK”)

Course Instructor: James Dooley Office Hours: By Appointment E-mail Address: jsdooley@verizon.net Office Telephone: 215-498-0157 Prerequisites
|Economics 1101 (C051) and 1102 (C052); Accounting 2102 (0002) or 2521. Statistics 2101 (C021) or 2103. Any exception to the foregoing prerequisites can |
|only be approved by the Department Chair. |
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|Course Description | | | | |

This course provides a survey of the financial problems associated with the life cycle of a business firm. Topics include: financial analysis and planning, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and the sources and uses of business funds. While the emphasis is on decision making within a corporate environment, the tools taught in this course are just as relevant to other forms of business organization and to personal financial management.

Course Objectives

Finance 3101 focuses on two of the four main learning goals of the Fox School’s BBA Program: (a) Understanding critical business concepts, and (b) Applying critical thinking to business problems. Specific learning objectives in pursuit of these two goals involve a basic understanding of the following: • Goal of corporate financial